Nail in Coffin: Chicago Bears head coach John Fox has to go

If we learned anything from the Chicago Bears Week 10 loss to the Green Bay Packers, it is that John Fox has to go sooner rather than later

This was supposed to be a game that changed the guards. The Chicago Bears, the team with the starting franchise quarterback was supposed to be playing big brother to the Green Bay Packers, the team with no quarterback, no identity, and the team free-falling down the standings with Aaron Rodgers on the sideline. They were at home. The Bears were favored to beat the Packers for the first time in nearly ten years. The spread got as high as six but always sat over a field goal.

It was every Bears fans dreams come true. John Fox turned that dream into a nightmare. You can blame the talent on the team all that you want. That can be spoken to with the idea that John Fox-led Bears teams have only been favored six times in the past 41 games. He took on a rebuilding job. This is understandable.

What is not understandable is that with this loss today John Fox is now 0-6 straight up in every single game he has been favored in as a head coach. In the games where oddsmakers and the general public clearly see the Bears as the more talented team, the only thing to blame is the coach. He let them down every single time so far. He did not have his team in the mindset that they were the better team, and they played to their role more than their ability.

This week has to be the most embarrassing of his six losses. As mentioned, not only was everything in his favor, everything was in his favor against the team’s biggest rival. A statement that a team was going to be here for the future turned into a rendition of same old, same old. The game plan was poor. He made a major mistake with an awful challenge decision that cost them at least three but likely seven points. The personnel decisions on offense also seemed random and undetermined. In a league that is now relying on players during their rookie scale contracts, he seems stuck in the past of being hesitant to move his talent along. It feels as though Mitchell Trubisky, Adam Shaheen and Tarik Cohen all could have been further along by now had it not been for this staff.

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This matters to the ownership. It can be said in that the team was quick to move on from Mike Glennon this season after his embarrassment to the Green Bay Packers. This game is equally as bad. The team has to move on, and it has to be moving on from John Fox.