My take/conspiracy theory on why giving poles an extension was the right move

How do we know that the decision to retain Eberflus was ever on poles? No one knows. But I’ll speculate, because idk why poles would’ve been interviewing head coaches last off season if he was actually dead set on eberflus.

Knowing the bears organization, which has had problems at head coaches long before poles was ever around, I’m much more interested in the idea that it was the mccaskeys and CEO who decided to keep poles, while poles wanted to move the team in a new direction - I.E. the mccaskeys are stuck in 1985 trying to play defensive football in a modern league heavily favoring offense, and poles goes and makes the choice to draft a WR at pick 9 rather than DL/DE like many mock drafts from last year were saying.

That just doesn’t read as a guy who wanted a defensive minded head coach there. Aside from that, why was the entire coaching staff fired except eberflus? Seems to me like someone wanted to try the Fields staff one more time and someone wanted them all gone and a compromise was met.

Obviously all speculative, but I’ve seen a lot of people on here call to fire Poles on this basis alone, which seems ridiculous to me given how he’s turned out.

The Panthers trade, one of the most lopsided draft trades ever, which has put us in a very good position to succeed. And there’s the oline which failed expectations sure, but is still ranked highly on PFF and it was injuries all the way down the depth chart that was the main issue. Just my two cents.