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David Haugh: John Fox has done more at midseason to justify keeping job than losing it

For everyone who already circled a January date to celebrate the Bears firing coach John Fox, avoid hiring a caterer until you can base such speculation on more than wishful thinking.

The Bears taking a Sunday off produced a week's worth of predictable conversation about Fox's future, a natural topic in a football town tired of losing. The allies Fox never cultivated since coming to Halas Hall are nowhere to be found, leaving his 12-28 record to speak for him when his obfuscating words aren't. Frankly, it would be as

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