No Nov 22 post? As a fellow Bears masochist, I was looking forward to reliving the Packers game through your eyes/hear your take. I understand however, if you needed to take the week off for mental health reasons. I certainly found my self on the precipice this week, as somehow the result of the end of that game surprised me. It shouldn’t have.
I read a stat the other day that almost made me throw my phone. There have been 14 Bears coaches fired in the last X years. The only guy who has kept his job through it all is our offensive line coach, Chris Morgan. I don't know who's fucking who's wife or who has dirt on who, but there is no explanation for that. As we have had ups and downs at nearly every position during that time, the one consistency is that the offensive line has SUCKED BALLS. We are a dirty, corrupt franchise. Nothing is changing any time soon.
With a good OL, sub-par skill players can look good. With a bad OL, great skill players look shitty....ALWAYS.
With that said I will be mindlessly rooting for our Bears in hopes the Thomas Brown's wife has been railed by every one and they have given him full reigns to run this team to stay quiet. It is a new age, BEAR DOWN
This is the poster comment for Bears fans collectively losing their minds, and I respect it.
You are right about Morgan, and you are right about sub-par skill players looking good. Now imagine if you had good skill players with a good offensive line. Then you'd be the Lions...
The clouds have parted and I now see it all. How could we have forgotten that the McCaskey's are in charge?!?!? No swearing at Halas Hall?!?! I wouldn't last a minute. How would my first day S.T.F.U. speech go over? Everything makes sense now. Trestman was hired because was a good guy but he lost the team in 12 months. Fox was an emergency hire. Nagy was hired because he was a good guy but he couldn't coach. Eberflus clearly a good guy. Waldron was hired over Kingsbury because, he was a good guy. If that is your number one requirement for a head coach of a football team, you are in trouble.
By the way, I think Poles is a good guy too. Besides his Chase Claypool trade, his Nate Davis signing and his complete disregard to put a good line in front of his franchise QB, he also failed to sign an experienced back up QB to help Williams develop.
They are all underqualified because ownership was born on third base.
You can also hire good guys that are also good -- and powerful, and demanding -- football coaches. They don't have to be mutually exclusive, though the Bears treat it that way.
You're also right that everyone deserves blame. And you're also right that the Claypool and Nate Davis acquisitions were dreadful moves. But if you can find one GM in the league that has a 100% hit rate -- without bad misses -- I'd like to see them.
Well, I’m one of those trolls that reads you every week for two reasons. To mildly keep up since Jax consumes any free time I have, & for the mildly pessimistic humor. You sir, made my morning with the Sisyphus / pregnancy analogy in relation to Packer week. Second use of the great boulder rolling Sisyphus I might add, & I thank you for it.
Can not believe that the Pack are only 5.5 pt favorites. Vegas must know that Thomas Brown is the truth!!
A great but depressing read. I'm not sure how it could have been positive. I really like Poles, and can't convince myself that any of this falls on him. Chicago organizations are cursed with terrible ownership. What a time! LETS GO BULLS!
Poles is responsible in a major way. The O Line is the very basis of our problems and he had the opportunity to have addressed that. Also, why no veteran QB to work with Caleb constantly. All of the other rookies have exactly that.
No Nov 22 post? As a fellow Bears masochist, I was looking forward to reliving the Packers game through your eyes/hear your take. I understand however, if you needed to take the week off for mental health reasons. I certainly found my self on the precipice this week, as somehow the result of the end of that game surprised me. It shouldn’t have.
Henry, thank you for reaching out about my absence. It motivates me to not let it happen again. I appreciate you reading.
Frankly, I couldn't have gone away at a worse time.
I'll be back next week, too!
I read a stat the other day that almost made me throw my phone. There have been 14 Bears coaches fired in the last X years. The only guy who has kept his job through it all is our offensive line coach, Chris Morgan. I don't know who's fucking who's wife or who has dirt on who, but there is no explanation for that. As we have had ups and downs at nearly every position during that time, the one consistency is that the offensive line has SUCKED BALLS. We are a dirty, corrupt franchise. Nothing is changing any time soon.
With a good OL, sub-par skill players can look good. With a bad OL, great skill players look shitty....ALWAYS.
With that said I will be mindlessly rooting for our Bears in hopes the Thomas Brown's wife has been railed by every one and they have given him full reigns to run this team to stay quiet. It is a new age, BEAR DOWN
This is the poster comment for Bears fans collectively losing their minds, and I respect it.
You are right about Morgan, and you are right about sub-par skill players looking good. Now imagine if you had good skill players with a good offensive line. Then you'd be the Lions...
The clouds have parted and I now see it all. How could we have forgotten that the McCaskey's are in charge?!?!? No swearing at Halas Hall?!?! I wouldn't last a minute. How would my first day S.T.F.U. speech go over? Everything makes sense now. Trestman was hired because was a good guy but he lost the team in 12 months. Fox was an emergency hire. Nagy was hired because he was a good guy but he couldn't coach. Eberflus clearly a good guy. Waldron was hired over Kingsbury because, he was a good guy. If that is your number one requirement for a head coach of a football team, you are in trouble.
By the way, I think Poles is a good guy too. Besides his Chase Claypool trade, his Nate Davis signing and his complete disregard to put a good line in front of his franchise QB, he also failed to sign an experienced back up QB to help Williams develop.
They are all underqualified because ownership was born on third base.
You can also hire good guys that are also good -- and powerful, and demanding -- football coaches. They don't have to be mutually exclusive, though the Bears treat it that way.
You're also right that everyone deserves blame. And you're also right that the Claypool and Nate Davis acquisitions were dreadful moves. But if you can find one GM in the league that has a 100% hit rate -- without bad misses -- I'd like to see them.
Well, I’m one of those trolls that reads you every week for two reasons. To mildly keep up since Jax consumes any free time I have, & for the mildly pessimistic humor. You sir, made my morning with the Sisyphus / pregnancy analogy in relation to Packer week. Second use of the great boulder rolling Sisyphus I might add, & I thank you for it.
I write for you, the reader who understands the Sisyphus analogies, my friend. Thank you for reading.
Can not believe that the Pack are only 5.5 pt favorites. Vegas must know that Thomas Brown is the truth!!
A great but depressing read. I'm not sure how it could have been positive. I really like Poles, and can't convince myself that any of this falls on him. Chicago organizations are cursed with terrible ownership. What a time! LETS GO BULLS!
I'm with you on Poles. Does he deserve blame? He can't escape it at this point. No one really can.
But I think Poles and Williams should draw less ire than others.
Bulls currently the no. 6 seed in the East. Did someone say automatic playoff bid? LETS GO BULLS!
Poles is responsible in a major way. The O Line is the very basis of our problems and he had the opportunity to have addressed that. Also, why no veteran QB to work with Caleb constantly. All of the other rookies have exactly that.