The new GM will report to McCaskey.Īnd yet, McCaskey said that Phillips will be part of the search for the next general manager. One of the few good things to come out of Monday’s press conference was news that Phillips won’t be involved with football operations anymore, with the focus being on the business side. “I’ve learned over the years to take everything Olin Kreutz says with a grain of salt,” McCaskey said, before essentially calling Kreutz a liar shortly after. Instead, he used it as an opportunity to take a shot at one of the team’s beloved former players in Kreutz. That story was brought up to McCaskey, who could have easily dismissed it as something he wasn’t going to get into. For context, Kreutz told a story about the time the Bears organization offered him $15 an hour to serve as a consultant for the offensive line with Harry Hiestand back in 2018. Whatever you expected to happen during McCaskey’s press conference, I bet you didn’t expect him to call out former Bears center Olin Kreutz as a liar. George McCaskey calling Olin Kreutz a liar While most of us can agree that those fans booing Nagy while he was just trying to be a dad were wrong, it was how McCaskey ultimately turned what should’ve been a nice tribute to Dickerson into something that isn’t on the same level as losing a parent. But instead of stopping there, he used Dickerson’s son Parker as a means to transition to chastising the Bears fans who booed Nagy during his son’s high school playoff game. In his opening remarks, McCaskey paid tribute to the late Jeff Dickerson. Right from the start, McCaskey’s press conference was a disaster. George McCaskey using Jeff Dickerson's passing to chastise Bears fans Here’s a look at some of the most embarrassing moments from McCaskey (and Phillips) during their press conference: While many didn’t think it could get worse than last year’s press conference, it’s right up there with it. But with McCaskey, even a routine end-of-year press conference always seems to develop into an absolute disaster. McCaskey met the Chicago media for roughly an hour, where he addressed everything from Nagy and Pace’s firings to the search efforts for a new head coach and GM. The Chicago Bears fired head coach Matt Nagy and general manager Ryan Pace on Monday morning, which left Bears fans feeling uncharacteristically hopeful that things might actually change.īut much like Nagy’s second-half collapses, Monday went from great to hopeless once Chairman George McCaskey took center stage later that afternoon.