Fire Ryan Poles | Fire Ben Johnson

I won’t get into the actual game too much in this recap. But hey, some things do need to be mentioned. I know, it’s preseason. I found this game to be background noise in the second half. I was happy the starters played a series on offense with some players getting more time. The issue I have is that there ZERO improvement on defense. I witnessed “Vintage Chicago Bears Defense” by poor play in the secondary including, you guessed it, a touchdown given up on the final drive of the first half. Inexcusable. Then this whole discussion I’ve heard the last couple weeks about how the left tackle position is pissing me off. Braxton Jones should be ready to go and instead, there are four others who could get the job. Just, whatever.

I never heard of the cornerback Donate Manning. Maybe we will be lucky and not see him playing for the Bears after this preseason. This dude was getting torched all damn game. Same with Case Keenum. Good Lord, this guy is awful. Let’s pray that Tyson Bagent is healthy and ready to go for the regular season. I still don’t know why he’s on this team.

How many players on this team are injured already? 10? 20? This is the exact reason why I was screaming last year that the Bears need to win the Super Bowl. Because of Ben Johnson’s stupidity, they pissed it away. Now, there are so many injuries, this team stands zero chance. The secondary is in shambles. This year is screaming “2019 Bears” with that bald dipshit, Matt Nagy.

What also pissed me off about this game is when I got back to my couch after halftime to hear Kevin Warren speaking to the announcers. This fucking guy just won’t fuck off. He is continuing to say that Hammond is being explored when clearly, this stands no chance. The land they are “looking at” has legitimate human waste under it. He is stealing money from the Bears and George McCaskey, as usual, doesn’t even see it. Kevin Warren is a fraud and is WORSE than Ted Phillips. Think about that. Someone worse than Ted Phillips? Yep, we’re seeing it in real time.

I don’t know how it was for those watching the Bears in other TV markets around Illinois and Iowa. But in Chicago, every damn commercial break had that annoying Advocate Health one with the song from New Radicals. I don’t need to see a pregnant lady doing yoga or sick folks trying to act like they are happy when they truly feel miserable. EVERY. DAMN. COMMERCIAL. BREAK.

The Bears play their last preseason game next Saturday against the Titans. Not sure if the starters will play, but we’ll see what happens.

Last thing I want to mention:

670 The Score fired Mike Mulligan yesterday. Ever since Dan Bernstein started doing his podcast, I’ve barely listened to this station. But again, this is also due to poor management at this radio station for many years. They fired Brian Hanley and replaced him with David Huh? to do the show with Mulligan. Now, they fired a guy who has been there for 20 years? David Haugh should never have a job in Chicago media. He has been awful since I can remember. The dipshit is on CHSN as well talking Bears with Clay Harbor and that bimbo Ruthie Polinsky. It’s decisions like this as to why ratings have been in the shitter.

There is nobody worth listening to these days other than Steve Rosenbloom on late Saturday mornings. And other nights I turn it on driving somewhere, people I’ve never even heard of are on talking. I know it’s a different era. But nothing will ever top the days of Mike North in the morning, Mulligan and Hanley, Murph (heeeyyyy) and then Boers and Bernstein to close it out. That was appointment radio.

I was working during this game and couldn’t fully focus. However, I did like how the defense played. DeShaun Watson was under pressure during most of his time on the field. There were a few big plays from the Browns, but the defense stopped them on a couple drives. Good work by them for getting two interceptions later in the game as well as strip sacking Watson for a turnover.

I still would have preferred the Bears play Caleb Williams at least a couple of series to see how he looks. I know they already made the plan not to at all. I also know the rain has caused a lot of problems and that could have also been a risk. We have seen what happens when starters don’t play at all in these games and when the season starts, they look rusty.

Tyson Bagent is proving why he is the only choice to backup Caleb. I know he gets a lot of shit from the talk show hosts and podcasters, but all he does is work hard. He shows up and does what is asked of him. He doesn’t have the arm strength nor instincts that someone like Mahomes or Allen. But he has some speed and can scramble.

Case Keenum’s numbers looked great (9/10 for 151 yards for two touchdowns). But he still sucks at football and shouldn’t ever play for the Bears in meaningful games.

Next week, they play the Bengals on the road. Let’s see if the starters are out there for a quarter playing.

This season is already starting off great. The great free agent signing was injured during the first padded practice of training camp. You can’t really blame Coby Bryant here. A “small” fracture in his knee doesn’t really sound optimistic. Same for a hyperextension and bone bruise. Reports had him being out for 8-10 weeks. Now, Ben Johnson is saying there is no timeline.

I am no doctor. But any fracture doesn’t seem like a quick heal.

Oh, and Kyler Gordon came to training camp already hurt. What else is new?

And why give Darnell Wright the richest contract for an offensive lineman in history? He had a great 12 games to finish the season. That’s not enough to warrant that kind of money. Just, whatever.

Buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a very long five months.

Any thoughts go here. Until then, I’ll keep listening to the idiots on the radio talking about how Ben Johnson is such a great coach despite his idiotic play-calling that cost the team in January.

I’ll remind everyone again that only once in the last 30 years have the Bears made the playoffs in back-to-back years. History is not on their side.

Finding motivation to talk about the Bears lately has not been very high with me. These assholes had me exhausted by just the first game last season. Seriously. I ended up getting a shitty cold after the first game of the season. Then around Christmas, a horrible flu that lasted two weeks. This team made me PHYSICALLY ILL.

Then add the management of Kevin Warren in. Him showing up in the locker room with the players after every win. This dude had no business being hired and after, no business being in the locker room. In all seriousness, was Ted fucking Phillips shown in the locker room after a win when he was president? Well, now that I think about it, the Bears barely won any games when he was there. So who the fuck knows?

Now, this saga that is so damn confusing to the regular human, is another reason why Kevin Warren had no business being hired. Apparently, he completely fucked up the new stadium deal with Arlington Heights by trying to pull shit behind other people’s backs. I am sure this stadium deal will get done soon just because it’s the Bears. So I do believe all of this is just delaying the inevitable.

If the Bears want to move to Hammond, let them. I said that a thousand times. No reasonable resident in this state wants to pay for this stadium. Let Indiana pay for it. Or, as I said a thousand times before, STAY IN SOLDIER FIELD AND PAY OFF THE MASSIVE DEBT OWED ON IT. It’s a motherfucker driving into Indiana on a regular day due to the never-ending construction around there. It still boggles my mind on how every year, lanes are closed to get fixed. How about fix it the first time so you don’t have to keep doing it? I don’t fucking know. But they can go there. Getting to Arlington Heights on a random afternoon is also a motherfucker. Imagine an 80,000 seat stadium off of Route 53. It will take fans seven hours to go three miles.

As I said years ago, Kevin Warren can fuck off. The Bears wasted millions of dollars employing this guy and millions more buying useless land. I sincerely pray that the politicians in charge will tell George and Kevin to go fuck themselves with this new stadium and instead, focus on winning the Super Bowl, but I guess that requires too much work.

The Bears will have the toughest schedule than any other team. They didn’t seem to improve too much on defense either.

The “miracles” don’t happen twice. As I said right after the season ended, they’ve only made the playoffs in consecutive years once since the George H.W. Bush administration.

History is not on their side in terms of positive results. As much as I wanted to blame the defense for shitting themselves in the most crucial moments, Ben Johnson is the reason this team was stopped from going further. He’s a shitty head coach that lost the playoff game. Prove me wrong.

I am going to be generous here and say 6-11. Wins come against the Panthers, Jets, Patriots, Saints, Dolphins and Vikings.

Someone at this site once said, “I exist to be wrong.” So I’ll second that. Discuss amongst yourselves.

This is absurd. It’s enough that Ryan Poles did more stupid shit by drafting a tight end and wide receiver despite needing another defensive back and linebacker. Talk about a waste of resources.

It’s one step forward, two steps back for this dis-organization. It’s Kevin Warren, who probably hasn’t ever thrown a football in his life, in the Draft Room. This furthers the argument that management is interfering with coaching decisions.

I was happy they got a safety in Dillon Thieneman and Logan Jones, a center. But getting a tight end and wide receiver right after? I’d like to be wrong, but I rarely am when it comes to this team.

For anyone who thinks this team is in great shape, think again. As I mentioned before, only ONCE in the last 35 years have the Bears made the playoffs in back-to-back years. And the last time was 20 years ago. I know there are still more draft picks to go, but I do believe Ryan Poles made it more difficult for the team with the decisions tonight.

Well, I am back. The Illini promptly shit the bed and the Bears are intending on staying irrelevant. So here is some news that made me giggle in the last couple weeks. Dianna Russini has now resigned from her position at The Athletic after being caught violating ethics for what seems to be the umpteenth time. This time, it was her being seen with Mike Vrabel at some adult resort in Sedona, Arizona. For those who don’t know this HOOR!, Dianna has been covering the NFL for at least the last 11 years. She worked at ESPN for many years covering various NFL teams and went to The Athletic a few years back.

I trust my “sources” when it comes to this. I know of others who not only work have worked in Chicago media, but have worked in other markets as well. But this is not Dianna Russini’s first rodeo when it comes to violating ethics at her job by sleeping with people she isn’t allowed to. Over a decade ago, she was outed for sleeping with the general manager of the Redskins. Later on, she goes to ESPN. And it was the same crap. Constantly dressing like she is a $200 per hour hooker on TV. There were even rumors of her with a certain assistant coach back then when she was in D.C. This current story is only furthering that confirmation.

This is the issue I have: You can sleep with whomever you want. Go right ahead. However, if your job includes a list of rules such as, I don’t know, sleeping with people you are reporting on, then that may not be a good idea.

She was married a few years ago and has two kids. Now, I am not married and never will do so. I had a couple of relationships in my life that both turned out to be nightmares due to poor decision-making on both my part and the counterpart. I am happy finding some lady I am friends with and leaving it with that even these days.

I find all of this to be entertaining. Again, there is a difference between sleeping with someone because you are attracted to the person and then doing it because you are trying to get a story or whatever. If she is doing the latter, then she is a bigger HOOR! than previously thought. I wrote about some of these other women in media years ago about how they use their bodies to get jobs. If someone wants to come here and call me a “misogynist,” suck my dick. I am right about all of this. Use your brain and actual work skills to achieve your goals. Dianna Russini is another in a long list that hasn’t and doesn’t seem to either. I am here to see her downfall.

Barring more stupid shit happening, this will be the thread for the remainder of March. We are just over a month away from the NFL Draft.

Where do I start? I haven’t written about basketball in a long time. The Bulls are so irrelevant, I have watched maybe one or two games since November. So that leaves me with Illinois Basketball. This fucking team. Losing four overtime games in the last 45 days or so due to shitty free throw shooting and blowing leads. This sounds exactly like the shit I wrote 15 years ago when talking about the Bulls. Ill-annoyed, indeed.

This is fucking rotten. I have been praying for one National Championship in both football and basketball from this school my entire life. And every year, there seems to be some kind of prayer. Start off well. Then, find ways to lose and fuck themselves out of any chance. Two years ago, they made the Elite Eight only to get steamrolled by the eventual champions in UConn. Fine. But all these other years, they can’t even make it to the Sweet 16.

This year, it will probably be the same. Good teams don’t lose four overtime games out of their last 10 or 11. Good teams don’t blow big leads. Good teams don’t miss a bunch of free throws to cost them those same games.

Next, the state of Illinois. I try to avoid to politics on here for obvious reasons. But in this case, fuck all of these politicians. Both sides. All this time, they told everyone that they will not give any money to the Bears for a new stadium. Now, they are working diligently to “find” money to give George McCaskey. For the love of God, let Indiana and their residents pay the billions for the stadium. So the fat fuck in Springfield and all of his billionaire friends should tell Kevin Warren to eat a bag of dicks. If Kevin wants a stadium so bad, he should put the “shovels in the ground” himself and build it all on his own. After he gets done building it, he can bury himself under it so we don’t have to see this dipshit again. I seriously didn’t think it would get any worse after Ted Phillips mercifully left this dis-organization. And now, we’re stuck with this bald-headed idiot.

Let me say this for the 7,000th time: NOTHING IS WRONG WITH SOLDIER FIELD.

Everyone else claims it’s a dump and hard to travel in and out of. For many years, I have navigated my way around that place. I’ve had little-to-no issues. Why? Because I know my way around the city. I know where to park for free and walk 15-20 minutes to the stadium. And because this team is so fucking rotten, I can leave early and beat traffic without problems. Simple. Or even after last season’s opening night meltdown, I left the stadium with basically a couple minutes to go in the game. I got to my car in that same 15-20 minute span, drove out of the city and got home in a timely manner. So to these stupid fans that piss and moan about parking: Be smarter about how you arrive. Tailgate early if you desire.

Or again, go to Indiana. I probably won’t go since it will take me an extra half hour just to cross the border. But other fans can sit in traffic for hours and drive further all because Soldier Field “is a dump.” Let me remind everyone that the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority owe something like $500 million or whatever to the Chicago Park District due to the renovations on the stadium in 2002. If the Bears break the lease, they will owe $90 million. Where do you think that money is going to come from to pay for that? These fans that are pissing and moaning for a new stadium: You will get your wish. Not only will you pay for very expensive tickets in the new stadium, your tax dollars will still pay for the old one. All of us in the state will be on the hook for that exit fee.