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This was nothing like the end-of-season news conference Bears general manager Ryan Poles would’ve imagined when training camp opened six months ago and he believed his rebuild would soon culminate in a playoff run.
Instead, Poles was under fire Tuesday for errors that led to a devastating season in which the Bears plunged through a 10-game losing streak, fired their head coach and offensive coordinator and finished 5-12.
And now, the one who made this mess in large part by the bad hire of coach Matt Eberflus and signing off on assistants like Luke Getsy, Alan Williams and Shane Waldron, is in charge of cleaning it up by leading the Bears’ fifth coaching search in the last 13 offseasons.