As the Bears search for someone to replace the retiring president/CEO Ted Phillips, chairman George McCaskey knows what he’s looking for.
“Ted 2.0,” he said.
Phillips himself, though, knows that the Bears didn’t win enough during his tenure as president, which dates to 1999. Three playoff wins, to be exact.
“I don’t have regrets— I don’t operate that way,” Phillips said Friday, sitting next to McCaskey in a small conference room Friday at Halas Hall. “Am I disappointed? Absolutely. We haven’t been able to find a consistently winning team.”
Or a quarterback. Phillips — the same man who said after the 2020 season that the team had yet to get the position right but insisted that “everything else is there” — knows it.