The CRAZIEST COACHING SEARCH in NFL HISTORY
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- On January 22, 1999, the Chicago Bears announced that Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator Dave McGinnis was going to be the next head coach of the team. The only problem? McGinnis never accepted the offer, and had no idea what the Bears were talking about, because the two sides were so far apart on a contract. McGinnis never became the head coach of the Bears. This is the story behind this debacle and one of the strangest coaching carousels in the history of the NFL
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As a lifelong Bears fan who lived in Chicagoland at the time of this whole fiasco occurred I have to thank you for dredging up this memory. I was 21 years old at the time and I realized when this all went down that my beloved hometown Bears would never win a championship while the McCaskey family were owners. Here we are 23 years later and I have yet to be proven wrong.
As a lifelong chicagoan, I appreciate you saying Chicagoland instead of just saying chicago. "I'm from Chicago" oh, cool where at? "Joliet"
Smh. Nothing pisses us off more than people from joliet or morris saying they live from chicago. But cant get lingo right. I always have a few ways to tell.
I do understand it's easier to say chicago. Because nobody knows anything about illinois. Its Chicago. And corn.
Arizona Cardinals for absolute certainty will always have an absolute (armpit of the NFL with Bidwell ownership ) all bottom feeders current teams struggling will have championships or Superbowl appearances while Cardinals will return to bottom of standings . Cardinals refuse to put any real effort forth to draft quality.Ruin coaches acquire worn out windbags General managers that are little more than carnival barkers .
Agreed
Eagles fan checking in. You had Matt Nagy who was supposed to be the next offensive genius like Andy Reid. Nagy was decent his first year but got canned a few years later. I didn’t think Mitch Trubisky would turn out to be a disappointment like Justin Fields has so far.
I remember this story very well. You personified it perfectly...but the best part of this video for me was the first minute with your rant and egitimate frustration with the Jags and their current coaching search. Let's hope the Jags can actually do the right thing for once and not make something already incredibly dysfunctional even worse. As for your video, you nailed it--Great story-telling here. Perfect way to wake up to a snowy blizzard Saturday morning. Your videos are always the best!
Last I checked Leftwich had been hired, I had no idea about this clusterfuck afterwards.
Yeah angry JG9 is best JG9
“Always the best”. Yes. If you ignore the over use of click bait, embellishing and unnecessary hyperbole
Here’s more to the story: McCaskey wanted to add a buyout clause in his contract after 2 years, essentially making it a two-year contract. McGinnis told McCaskey it would difficult to convince coordinators to move their families out here for basically two years. McCaskey replied “do they have to know?”
No deal.
Most incompetent owners in football...
Typical McCaskey move. The best thing for the Bears is for them to sell the club. They've never reached the heights they reached under George S. Halas' leadership during the McCaskey era.
Why would they sell one of the most successful money wise franchises in the nfl. As incompetent as george mccaskey and ted Phillips are when it comes to football. They are great businessmen and know how to make money.
The bears are lacking a football guy. They just hired one in ryan poles. The mccaskeys make good decisions for the company. But are clueless when it comes to the team. Hopefully ryan poles will have a backbone unlike pace and tell george and ted to worry about the money side. He will worry about the football
@@ScootsMcPoot At some point, making money alone can't be enough. Putting a marketable product on the field has to be one of their main goals and for the most part, they've failed quite a bit. I don't think it's a coincidence that the Bears haven't won a Super Bowl in the McCaskey era (only one trip, a loss to the Colts in Miami Gardens, Fla.). They have to get the football side together to truly gain credibility.
I think the moral of the story is if you want to hire somebody that is holding out on you just try to gaslight him into thinking he already took the job. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As I recall, Mike McCaskey also prematurely announced the hiring of Dick Jauron as well, and was subsequently relieved of his GM duties by the family.
He wasn't g.m he was president.
Taking too many L’s
Jacksonville Jaguars: We are going to have the craziest head coaching search ever.
Houston Texans: Hold my beer.
This also forced the Bears' primary shareholder Virginia McCaskey to admit that her son Mike had no business running an NFL franchise and she basically fired him.
Jim McMahon said that at the end of Super Bowl 20 he and Walter Payton were laughing with each other on the sideline because they saw Mike McCaskey on the sideline and they couldn’t stand him.
How was Wannstedt able to hang on as a head coach for 6 years and making the playoffs once?
just seeing anything Cardinals in the late 90's reminds me of Pat Tillman and his sacrifice
Amen. Shortly before I shipped off to basic in Great Mistakes, I was at a Seahawks game in Seattle, where Pat (among others) was honoured for his service. It was quite a moment.
Dave has always told this story the same way every time. Leads me to believe his side over Da Bears.
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I lived in Chicago at the time and the sports radio stations were reporting that McGinnis heard about his "hiring" on the cab ride into the city.
Surreal to say the least
Haha, I remember this too well. Hosts on 670 the Score always roasted the Bears about this.
It was worth it to see Mike McCaskey, pretty much the most hated sports figure in Chicago at that time, get fired by his mother.
On Baalke, did you expect any better? This is the same guy who thought it was a good idea to make Jim Tomsula and a disgraced Chip Kelly head coach.
Baalke makes Chris Grier look competent, and that's REALLY hard to do!
Jags are not the only team with this saga. Right now, the Texans are flirting with the idea of hiring Josh McCown, former NFL quarterback with NO coaching experience, to be their head coach. He's a guy that has potential to be the head coach, but not now. Other options include Brian Flores, Jonathan Gannon and Kevin O'Connell.
I like seeing Bears related videos. I remember this wel
The Bears hired Dick Jauron.
He was mostly dreadful, aside from an inexplicable 13-3 season in 2001.
Let's all be honest here the success of the 2001 Chicago Bears had nothing to do with Dick Jauron and everything to do with every imaginable break possible going the Bears way. Back to back Mike Brown interceptions for touchdowns in overtime immediately come to mind. That whole period of Bears football was brutal.
@@JH-lu9lx 2001 Bears also had one of the easiest schedules in the league which was a warning sign come their divisional round exit to the Eagles.
They lost to the defending Super Bowl champion Ravens opening day, and got swept by a 12-4 Packers team.
The only teams they beat that year who finished above .500 were a 9-7 Bucs team, and that 49ers game with Mike Brown’s first walk off TD.
They went 10-0 that year against teams who finished .500 or lower
The Packers swept that 2001 Bears Team. We finished 12-4. We should have been at least the #2 seed, but we layed an egg in the four losses (Bucs, Vikings, Falcons, and Titans). We were much better than the Bears. We probably still would have gotten our asses handed to us by the Rams and a Divisional Game against a very good up and coming Eagles team that was led by the guy we should have hired in 1999 (Andy Reid) would have been tough.
But at least Jauron went to high school with the lead singer of the band Boston, so he has that going for him.
@@JH-lu9lx There were some really good players on the 2001 team such as Urlacher, Azumah, Colvin and Brown, but it was almost entirely on the defense and yeah, they got damn lucky. Pretty much the only way they can win these days with those inbreds running the franchise.
One of the best questions to ask of a fan base: DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR TEAM'S OWNERS ARE?
And I don't mean their name. No, I mean, their character and habits. I mean, as if they were a member of your family. DO YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE?
Side note...
Cardinals first season out west they were called the Phoenix Cardinals.
Tbh it was an embarrassment but a blessing as well.
McGinnis was dogshit in Arizona, not really amounting to much outside of a 7-9 season in 2001, and knocking the Vikings out of the playoffs in his final game.
It’s so bad that you’re a jags fan. I feel so bad. 💀
This was really funny! I remember like it was yesterday
If you want to do another absolutely worst coaching hiring, do the 1999 Packers when Ray Rhodes was hired over Andy Reid, who was the QB Coach for Holmgren and Favre from 1997-98. What could have been?
Ray got a terrible deal out of this situation.
@@daBEAGLE1017 I think you're right, looking back at it
And I thought the Bills organization was a mess during their 17 year playoff drought.
As a former Jets fan (1983-2008) they hired Bill Belichick only to have him resign the next day in January 2000 & go on to win 6 Super Bowls in 9 appearances.
Just curious, who do you root for now and why?
@@joeboo8626 I don't root for anyone. I just got tired of the Jets collapsing.
1984: started 6-2 went 7-9
1986: started 10-1 went 10-6 lost division title & home-field advantage
1993: was 8-5 need 1 win for final WC lost final 3 games
1994: started 6-5 went 6-10
1997: was 8-4 went 1-3 lost division title
2000: was 9-4 went 9-7 missed WC
2008: was 8-3 went 9-7 Favre's arm fell off, lost division title
Best part is, these are the guys still running my team. Sweaty teddy Phillips and the McCaskeys need to go!
Oh I remember this at the time, a huge deal in Chicago, no one could believe the Bears could pull this idiocy off.
It’s almost like getting married to someone without getting engaged hahahahahah
I remember this, the only good thing that came out of this was mike McCasky was fired from the presidency of bears; by his own parents.. He was a fuck up, and I've never heard or read anyone say anything good about him
I dont know, I'm biased, but this incident in Jacksonville seems WAAAAAAAY worse since its been going on for over 46 days now and the entire football community is chiming in on it.
Ahh the Bears and the disfunction the McKaskey family is known for. I remember this quite well and we ended up with Dick Jauron
Yeah that's actually the real moral of the story - never ever deal and trust the McKaskeys.
Dick Jauron had one 13-3 season in 2001 where they went 10-0 against teams who finished .500 or lower, and that pretty much made his entire coaching resume.
So much so, the Bills decided to hire Jauron before 2006 for him to just finish 7-9 or 6-10 in his 4 years with Buffalo.
@@JWex-jy7sk it was also the luckiest year ever as we won two overtime plays in back to back games on tipped interceptions for touchdowns something never done before in the history of the nfl . And had a Hail Mary pass that worked to get us into one of those overtimes
@@jewsco Oh that Browns game!
Trailed 21-7 with 32 seconds left, score the touchdown, got the onside kick, throw a 34 yard Hail Mary to James Allen to send it to overtime 21-21
Then the tipped ball up in the air to Mike Brown in OT
@@JWex-jy7sk yep
The Bears have largely been a black hole of an organization.
Fun fact: Of all the teams in the NFL in 1978 (when the schedule expanded to 16 games) the Cardinals were the last team since then to make their first playoff appearance in a season that went the full 16 games. Also, I’m glad there were no verbal agreements involved, otherwise you’d have burst a blood vessel!
After the 1973 season the Yankees were set to hire Dick Williams as manager after he led the A’s to two straight World Series championships. Williams resigned after the second because of how Owner Charlie Finley treated 2B Mike Andrews. The Yankees called a press conference with shrimp galore to announce the hiring of Williams. However, Williams never managed a game for the Yankees because he was still under contract with the A’s, and Finley wanted compensation from the Yankees. The Yankees refused Finley’s terms and never actually hired Williams. They would eventually hire Bill Virdon, but had no shrimp to accompany the announcement.
I believe the Yankees' assistant to the traveling secretary took all the shrimp on-hand to Firestone in Akron, Ohio just to zing a guy he used to work with.
I read Catfish Hunter's autobiography. The stories he told about Charlie O.... 🐴
I wish I could forget the time when my Chiefs hired Todd Haley for head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. On the bright side after Haley was fired we had Romeo for a brief moment until we landed Andy Reid and we've been dominate since.
Don’t leave out we won a meaningless game against the rams late in the year that cost us the number 1 pick and Peyton manning
Wow
The people responsible for this debacle are still running the organization.
I think it's generally underrated and overlooked how much the incompetency of ownership can affect the on-field product. I think we in the general public -- plus the Mainstream Media, for that matter -- tend to take the ownership for granted. After all, it's mostly just rich white dudes with little to no knowledge of football, so they leave the business to the experts... right?!
This story reeks of incompetence, and I firmly believe that stench ends up working it's way through the entire building. It affects how operations are run, how employees are treated/assessed and (most importantly) how standards are established. This is why we've seen over the decades of modern NFL history the clear "have's" and "have not's" of franchises. Sure, broken clocks are correct twice per day (e.g.: the Bengals current run to the Super Bowl... my word, how aloof did Mike Brown look), but mostly poor ownership will mean the team stinks or is mediocre at best.
This is why it's kinda funny how the Jaguars' current coaching drama you mentioned is surely bad, but not even the worst situation in the AFC South. I'm not sure what the heck is going in Houston with the McNair-Easterby relation, but their handling of operations gets more incompetent by the year. And the past two head coaching cycles have been especially daft.
All this makes me wonder how much I should be mad at Jerry Jones' handling of my Cowboys. There some things about a winning culture that Jerry clearly doesn't get -- that all left along with Jimmy Johnson -- but at least he's fielded a consistently competitive and promising squad, save for that brutal run during the Dave Campo years. Yes, it always ends in lament for me (e.g.: us losing to the 49ers opens up the door for the Rams' absolute gift of a Super Bowl path... Matthew Stafford has FIVE career regular season wins on the road against teams with a winning record, and he only needed ONE during this postseason), but at least it's not what we've seen over the decades with some of these other franchises. Heck, just in my comment here, I alluded to exponentially worse situations for the Bengals-Jaguars-Lions-Texans. Hopefully Joe Burrow can at least change part of that narrative in two weeks.
While you were ranting and raging about the Jacksonville Jaguars head coaching search, it makes me wonder (how again did they make the AFC Championship in 2017?)
And come a Myles Jack fumble return away from the super bowl
Shows you how good coughlin is.
He is the only man to have any success with that franchise....twice.
A big problem with the Bears is that ownership does not have the other revenue streams like other owners. They make their living off the team. That is why they are always trying to cheap out when it comes to hiring staff. Case and point, it has been reported that Jim Harbaugh was willing to come coach in Chicago but he wanted a big contract. 10 years 100 million dollars. Not unheard of but it would make him among the highest paid coaches in the league. Bears turned it down and brought in first time HC Matt Eberflus. His contract isn't yet public but it is safe to say he will be one of the lower paid coaches.
The Bears still miss Mike Ditka, even today.
Kind of. I think they miss Jim Finks, his 2 top scouts, and all of the amazing talent he assembled, especially in the 83' draft.
Hell, for that matter, they miss Papa Bear; look at what the McCaskeys have done.
@@eugenedenbrook322 If only Mugs Halas had lived! Imagine if the team hadn’t been under the McCaskeys’ ownership for the last 39 years…things might have been very different. Oh well, I guess we’ll see if this new regime can finally right the ship…as a lifelong Bears fan, I’ve long ago learned not to expect much from the Halas Hall brain trust, but one can only hope they’ll eventually figure it out.
You know more about the NFL than anyone and coming from you I could respect your opinion I've been real conflicted about the NFL there has been many games that look scripted coaching and referees at times seem to be determining the winner in awkward fashion do you believe that the NFL Riggs games because I do
Man, I hope not deliberately. I can see giving a little wiggle room for error but to deliberately screw a team, idk
@@teen_laqueefa Cincinnati got Wiggled all the way to the Superbowl it's disturbing that a very high percentage of games turnout in The Sports books favor and I'm not a fan of any team in the NFL I am a fan of the game so I can give you an honest opinion I am not biased every time I watch a game there's always some funny business going on and I guarantee you next year will be no exception to the rule to me it's not a conspiracy the NFL is rigged
The Bears will NEVER win another SB as long as that family owns the team. You glossed over the "Wandstead years." Your week was dictated by how the Bears played on Sunday, no one cared after Dave Wandstead took over. He was so awful they almost had to black-out a home game, which had not happened since the early 70's. This was the beginning of the end (at least) for Mike McCaskey! Everyone hated him.
Hmmm, did the Bears really miss out on anything in the long term? Debatable. Was this mess yet another prime example of Clan McCaskey's raging incompetence? Most definitely.
The Macaskeys are a joke .Sell the team to people who know how to run a football team. I believe Dave McGinnis Mike Macaskey and Ted Phillips need to wear DUNCE CAPS.
As a 49ers fan, I feel bad for Jaguars fans having to deal with Trent Baalke.
However, for the same reasons, I can't help laughing at the ownership for the consequences of their actions. Trent shouldn't have a job in the NFL.
You nailed it. The problem in Jacksonville is Trent Baalke. Good luck Jaguars fans, we already went through the Baalke fiasco with the Niners.
Well this is what u get for hiring baalke as ur gm. There’s a reason we fired him, he is as incompetent as they come.
I remember this too. That is so Bears.
We like Dan Campbell in Detroit. Unless BA promised Leftwitch the KC job when he retires, I’d love to see him coach Jacksonville
You mean tampa,?
That tells you even in the 90's nobody wanted to coach the bears and that remains true for today.
Mike Singletary wants to coach them now.
McGinnis wasn't going to win either way. Both of those franchises were terribly run. If he'd gone to the Bears, he'd have had the same mess Jauron did, and by staying with the Cardinals, he inherited another dumpster fire. And then he went to work for Jeff Fisher!
This PROVES that the Chicago Bears aren't ANY BETTER than a 39.6. THEY should just SPIKE the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!!
Look at the ownership in Jacksonville. Just sayin. Total incompetence
The McCaskeys, the NFLs version of The Borgias. 😫
People who run the Bears live off of a history none of them had anything to do with creating. In the modern era where they have outlier seasons and are legit good(2001 was a fluke as stated) they always underachieved. Ditka's Bears should've won at least 2 and Lovie's team never could put it all together. I'm a fan but I'm tired of the unearned reverence that is spoken in some quarters about this team. They have 1 super bowl. 1! Since their last Giants grabbed 4, Niners 3, Redskins 2, Steelers 2, Packers 2, Cowboys 3, Buccaneers 2 (remember when they were perennial jokes?) and of course N.E. 6. That's the results of this team's outcomes since Michael and George Mccaskey has been running the team.
I heard Trent Ballke is being replaced by Adrian Wilson. NBC sports reported that.
you should do a video on george allen , who was the bears defensive coach for their 1963 championship team. the rams wanted him. he wanted to go to los angeles. halas objected to this grearly
And understandably so
Ever thought of just calling your channel, jg9
I thought it was Byron leftwich officially
Forcing turnovers (especially fumble recoveries) is a flukish stat--that '98 Cardinals team is one of the worst playoff teams of the era. They really did nothing particularly well that was repeatable.
It is kind of flukish, but being a ballhawk is legit. Some teams coach it better than others, and persistence will pay off. Tom Catlin in Seattle, Joe Collier in Denver, are two who come to mind, from when I was growing up.
You kidding me Coach Mac drafted us Hof Anquan Boldin and Hof Adrian Wilson 2 players who helped us reach the Super Bowl I think we definitely made out !!!
This is just another example of a Bears blunder since 1992.
Oh well, Bear Down
Change that 39.6 tune, that kbrea already.
JG9, you should do a video on Alonzo Spellman incident in March 1998. He threatened to commit suicide and Mike Singletary saved his life.
How can Cardinals ownership be left off list as most alltime incompetent Bidwell legacy GM Keim check out their draft history ! Total incompetence. This Arizona football organization will never win a championship only ruin careers maim athletes in a multitude of ways. Little wonder they had relocate .Arizona Cardinals stench of NFL .Count them 0 championships horrible drafting even worse free agent signings .
JaguarGator,
You make great videos, but I am very disappointed in you. You left out the man who was most responsible for this debacle.
Mike McCaskey
This got him fired.
It's weird....I'm a Bears fan that grew up in Chicago(actual city, not suburbs) and was 17 going on 18 at the time and don't remember this at all
The Texans would like to raise you one and they go with....Josh McCown
The jaguar are a mess, I'm surprised that khan didn't fire balke, especially its him that hired urban Meyer in the first place, they need axe the gm.
Chicago would’ve done better spiking the ball into the ground on every play
McCaskey’s need to sell the team and move on.
Shout-out Coach Mac
Yeah,
Nosht...
Rams - Bengals !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Show about former Rams - Bengals match ups, please!
Oh back in 2004 the raiders announced Sean Payton would be their new head coach but he backed out. So basically it’s the same situation as Dave McGinnis with the bears.
Fire Baalke
He could legit be fired for cause in today's world for rejecting a black head coach that had seemingly already been hired. It's worth making the accusation at least.
I feel bad for the Jags. Welcome to the Baalke eara. You are going to hate him.
23 Years Ago
JAGS GONNA JAG LOL
Why do you hate my Bears?? This is the third anti Bears video in a month.