For all the criticism that was thrown the Chicago Bears' way for how team president Kevin Warren handled Monday's press conference, detailing the firing of Matt Eberflus, it was a step in the right direction.
It's an outlandish statement to make considering it's yet another press conference where the Bears are explaining why they got their latest head coach hire wrong but the silver lining of the day was that team chairman George McCaskey did not speak.
For all the insinuations that McCaskey has had in recent years, claiming that he is not involved in football operations, there's reasons to believe he is lingering in the background. McCaskey was involved in the meeting with Poles and Warren to determine Eberflus' fate. If we're being honest, McCaskey was probably the one pushing the Bears to keep Eberflus.
Nevertheless, McCaskey was sold on the decision to move on from Eberflus.
While McCaskey didn't speak to reporters on Monday, fans may have noticed that there is a profile on X that is under his name with a blue checkmark to suggest the account is verified. We're not going to link to the account nor embed the tweets posted from the account because any Bears' fan with a functioning brain cells knows that account, in fact, has no affiliation with the Bears or McCaskey.
It's times like this that serve as a reminder of just how steep the decline of X, formerly known as Twitter, has become. Anyone can buy their "verification" and pretend to be a prominent figure such as McCaskey.
But while we're on the topic of McCaskey, it's important that he does not have a firm say in the Bears' hiring of their next coach. Like it or not, McCaskey isn't going anywhere and will be meeting with candidates. At the end of the day, he has final approval on every decision made in the Bears' organization. Meeting with the candidates is fine but he shouldn't control the process. That is why Warren is here.
Warren may have fumbled the stadium project up until this point but that shouldn't serve as the reason he can't oversee the head coaching hire. After all, for all those wanting Poles to control the process, Poles' insistence on bringing back Eberflus last January is why we are at this point.
