Fix the Franchise : Chicago Bears edition

The problem with the Chicago Bears seem to lie with the people making the decisions. Since making the Super Bowl, it seems that this team has been in free fall, the offense and defense have been turned over to a couple of Detroit Lion rejects, and for the second straight year this team has no first or second round draft picks. They would love to sign WR Brandon Marshall, but since he was signed to a First Round tender, they don’t have the pick to give up to get him. The Bears are in a very sad state.

If I owned the Bears I would immediately fire everyone from President Ted Phillips and General Manager Jerry Angelo to the guys who sweeps up the bratwurst wrappers in the parking lot. I would then use the uncapped year to dump all the contract that I could, spend about 1 million on the payroll in 2010, and begin a massive rebuilding project by trading away everything I could for extra draft picks in 2011 and beyond.

What I would not be doing is trying to break the bank in an uncapped NFL year like the Bears front office seem to be doing. To me that is like throwing good money after bad. This team is fundamentally unsound, adding high priced, aging free agent to that is not going to work. There is only one way to build a NFL winning organization and that is through the draft. It amazes me that the Bears front office continually trades away their draft picks as if they have no value.

Am I being overly dramatic? Possibly. However, that does not change the fact that this is a broken team that needs a serious rebuild from top to bottom.

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