And while it pains me to say so, they do so year after year. Being a fan since the days of Bill Wade, I feel as though I am entitled to render my opinion as to why…
The post-George Halas ownership just doesn’t want to win bad enough. Being a vastly successful franchise, from a financial perspective anyway, they just don’t feel the need to hire anything but second tier management and coaching.
In my humble opinion, the best thing for the fans and the players would be for the league to allow Rush Limbaugh to purchase the team. You may not like him and there are others more knowledgeable, but I if he owned the Bears, they’d be winning in a couple of years.
As it is know, they are an embarrassment. Nevertheless, I can’t seem to stop wearing my Bears hat.
They are frustrating the shit out of me too. They haven’t seemed to be able to pull together more than 5 good players on a single roster since the 85 Bears. Every time they fill one hole another one opens up immediately. We always have just enough decent/good players to where we can’t write them off before the season starts but they can’t win without the other team fucking up badly in some way or some sort of freak chance incident happens in their favor. I was just mentioning to my friend the other day how absurd it is that we get excited over every 15+ yard passing play, which we seem to have 2-4 per game, when our opponents put up 1 or more medium to long yardage play on seemingly every possession. The constant 3rd and outs are so common that Bears fans get as excited about making it across midfield as other teams get about touchdowns. It feels like there is only a 50/50 shot that we will put more than 3 points on the board when we are 1st and goal.
For the past week and a half or so I’ve been wondering what it would be like to have Mike Tice call the offense. I don’t know if I should be intrigued or scared of that thought.
I’m with you on that, Cubsfan. You’d think that with signing Cutler we’d be able to develop a potent offense to go with the defense, but then they’ve been ignoring the O line for 5 or more years, it seems. If Cutler’s supposed to be the savior of the offense, then I’d be doing everything I could to make sure he can do his job and that includes a balanced attack (what? a run game? really), more rollouts, and making smart play calls during the game. If the team’s ahead by 20 points, no need to go empty backfield.
You could put Joe Montana behind the Bears’ offensive line and even he would have a hard time completing passes. Just look at Grossman. While not a Montana to be sure, his play has improved significantly since leaving the Bears. Probably the best thing that ever happened to him.
Baloney. Aaron Rodgers was behind the worst pass blocking line in football (51 sacks) in 2009 and still managed to have a very good year. That year Rodgers, like Cutler this year, often held onto the ball too long, but he got better as the season went on and the play calling got better. Cutler just isn’t as good against pressure as Rodgers, and he’s not so good at hitting his hot receiver. He even had some time to throw this past week, but he still couldn’t stop throwing interceptions and missing receivers.
Leaving the Bears is a great thing for some players. Just look at Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson.
It’s been 3 years since Grossman was the Bears’ starter. The only offensive lineman left from the 2007 season is Roberto Garza, so while the Bears’ line may suck it’s sucking for whole new reasons.
This is one of the more ridiculous things I’ve read in a long, long time. If you’d have said Mark Cuban you’d have had my attention.
Me too. I have nothing left for Martz. The guy isn’t a complete fool, but he hasn’t adjusted at all to the changes around the league and he is too stubborn to adjust to his talent. If this was still 1999 and his team played in a dome, maybe it’d work often enough to keep him employed, but not here. His disinterest in the offensive line is a recipe for disaster obviously, the run game and the pass game are not islands to themselves.
I never thought I’d hear somebody say they wanted Rush Limbaugh to buy their team because he’d turn it into a winner. I can’t imagine how he could possibly help, other than maybe getting the NFL to ban black players from sacking Jay Cutler.
The Bears spent huge money on Julius Peppers, they traded their future for a “franchise QB” and they are willing to spend money on their own players. The Bears have a lot of faults, especially their inability to draft and develop players and hyper-conservative coaching, but spending money to try and succeed isn’t one of them.
They got there thru many missed calls and other critical flukes. I swear every game there would be some huge penalty in favor of the Bears at just the right moment, star players hurt in almost every game, facing backups,Hell, the first wack call of the season was when Chris Johnson was denied a game winning td agains the bears because he celebrated too quickly.