Robert Mays: NFL coaches can build a great culture in many different ways

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00:00As you see it, as they're inside of this coaching search, what matters? You talk to people all over

00:07this league. What matters to them when they're looking at the Bears as a target?

00:13I feel like some of the outside maybe dysfunction or incompetence that we've seen from the Bears

00:19over the last few years, the way that we describe it in Chicago, I don't necessarily know if that's

00:23as much of a deterrent to the candidates for a job like this. Earlier in the season,

00:28I talked to somebody who they actually are interviewing for the job, and I asked him

00:32point blank. I was like, if the Bears were to interview for the head coaching job, would you

00:35take it? He didn't even hesitate to say yes. This is still a legacy franchise. I think that

00:40Ryan Poles, it's been hit or miss with some of the things that he's done, but I feel like

00:45you can talk yourself into him as a general manager. He's not actively somebody that's

00:49going to scare people off in the way that Trent Balke is. Are there things that are

00:53left to be desired about the way the Bears have operated recently? Yes, but I don't think that

00:57the McCaskies are people that are conceived of like Woody Johnson is where they're boogeymen for

01:03people who might take a job like this. That's interesting because it's not meddling as much

01:09as it is weakness. Is that fair? I think that's right. I think it's an aimless franchise that

01:16hasn't necessarily known what they want and why they're making these decisions.

01:21I was talking to my brother about this yesterday. He asked me, he's like,

01:25have the Bears ever hired an offensive-minded head coach who was the primary play caller

01:30for his team before they hired him? My first thought was like, well, of course they must have.

01:35Then I look back at every coach they've had since Mike Ditka and the answer is no,

01:40they haven't done that because Matt Nagy was not that for the Kansas City Chiefs.

01:44Even if you look at where a lot of these other teams who cycled between coaches have been looking

01:49for coaches, the Bears haven't even been able to do that right. I don't think it's about meddling.

01:54I think it's just not understanding the best path forward and having that be a consistent problem.