The Falcons just hired failed Bears general manager Ryan Pace, adding him to a personnel staff that already includes failed Bears general manager Phil Emery. That’s quite a declarative sentence. Somebody in Atlanta’s headquarters should have written it down before Pace’s hiring was announced, saw how it looked on paper and told the owner, “Either we have another failed Bears general manager currently in charge of recruitment or else we’ve completely lost our minds.’’
The Falcons obviously have no idea of the industrial-strength mess they’ve gotten themselves into. I don’t think I’m being unfair by saying that Pace and Emery are two of the worst NFL general managers in recent memory — Pace for committing the cardinal sin of drafting Mitch Trubisky over Patrick Mahomes, and Emery for causing organizational chaos in Chicago in record time.
