The Bears are 4-4 heading into this game. However, it feels like they are 1-7. That’s how this season feels. I seriously don’t think the Bears will win this game nor any other game for the rest of the season.
For Bears fans living during that time, it was definitely a “where were you?” kind of moment.
Walter Payton succombed to bile duct cancer six days prior. The following Saturday, a ceremony at Soldier Field took place (all these years, I kept thinking it was at Lambeau since they were playing there the next day). I watched part of the ceremony from a small TV at a bowling alley. That time, there was a league for kids our age. I was 13. The Bears changed the 30-yard line with “34.” I thought that was cool.
The Bears were playing the Packers at Lambeau Field the next day. I can’t remember why I was watching the game on the 13-inch TV in the kitchen. The Bears were pretty shitty that year. The Packers were determined to make it back to the Super Bowl after two years. The Bears, well, just sucked as usual. And that game was no different. Cade McNown got hurt early in the game. Jim Miller stepped in and imitated Cade McNown. Hey, Miller was actually cool. He played better as the season went on before being suspended for some steroid that he claimed was over-the-counter. The Packers were having an off-day and the Bears kept pissing away opportunities if I recall. Regardless, for one of the rare times in the 90’s, the Bears had a chance to beat the Packers.
Favre was doing his thing by driving the Packers down the field in the final minute. Before that, shitty Bears kicker Chris Boniol missed a field goal that would have forced the Packers to get a touchdown instead. Even back then, everyone assumed that the Packers were going to get the field goal for the win. It’s what the Bears were known for doing and to this day, still known for. But on this day, divine intervention took place. We as fans finally got a break with this team.
Ryan Longwell, who was pretty much automatic, just had to make a 28-yard field goal.
Nope. Blocked by a legend known as Bryan Robinson. After the game, he said he didn’t know he could jump that high and that Walter lifted him up. Just an amazing moment. Bryan passed eight years ago. I remember making a post about him here after that. The dude ended up being one of my favorite players after this moment.
At the end of the season, that loss was vital in keeping the Packers out of the playoffs. If memory serves correct, the tie-breaker went to the Lions because of the division record. The Packers had two separate three-game losing streaks and Ray Rhodes got fired after just one season.
That’s the funny part. When the Packers have a .500 season (rarely by the way), they fire the coach. They don’t care if it’s just one season. The Bears on the other hand, all these years, .500 results in contract extensions and a press conference afterwards vowing that better times are ahead.
As we have witnessed from this franchise for the last last three decades and then some, piss-poor management leads to piss-poor performances.
Eberf-LOSE said today that changes won’t be made. Everything is great and they seem to know more than what the rest of us do. Even though what we’ve been saying has been correct and everything they say has been wrong.
This is annoying. I’ve repeated that before. But this is really tiresome. Why does this keep happening every year? Why can’t they just find a competent general manager and head coach for the first time in 35 years? This is the problem.
It’s become comedic. The Bears a national punchline. All over the TV channels, they are making fun of the Bears. They are the laughingstock of the league. How does this make the players feel? They quit on the coaches yesterday. What does that tell you? They don’t respect this management and nor should they.
Fuck this goofy-looking motherfucker Shane Waldron. He can take his shitty offense somewhere else. Fuck Matt Eberf-LOSE and his garbage “(S)HITS PRINCIPAL.” Fuck Kevin Warren and his stupid obsession with a new stadium. Fuck Ryan Poles and his “take the North and never give it back.” Hey dipshit. The team you assembled can’t even take third place in the division. Focus on that before you win the division. Or better yet, focus on putting a team together that is competent.
Fuck George McCaskey and his stubborness to make changes until it’s too late. Nice guy and all. I am sure he would be a great neighbor. But he should not be in charge of a professional football team and especially not the team I was born and raised to love. He’s the catalyst to this entire disaster. He’s the one in charge of hiring and firing.
All of us here saw this coming the second last week’s game ended. We have seen this so many times, especially in the last 15 years. One really shitty loss sends this team into a tailspin. And last week, it happened.
Now, the dominoes are falling. This team can’t play the Panthers and Jaguars again. And let’s be honest. If they did, they lose.
And as it goes every single year this miserable franchise starts back up, there is plenty of blame to go around.
Matt Eberf-LOSE – This dumbfuck? He should turn in his resignation if he really cares about this team. Leave this franchise. And he should take that dumbfuck Shane Waldron with him. Just an awful combination of incompetence. I am tired of this shit.
Caleb Williams – Overthrows. Underthrows. Not seeing the check down receivers who are wide open for potentially big gains. Nope. Just continue to hold onto the ball until a sack happens. I get it. The offensive line is trash and his coordinator is John Schoop re-incarnated. But it’s not the coaches or the linemen overthrowing wide open receivers. Again, there is plenty of blame to go around. But he is not the answer.
Defense – Enough. Again, giving up points in crucial situations. I don’t give a shit if they force field goals on most plays. Giving up touchdowns right before halftime and not being able to stop the run is what this defense specializes in.
As I’m typing this, Caleb Williams was sacked again.
This season is over. They aren’t going to the playoffs. And it is very-much a possibility they don’t win another game this season. Fuck this fucking franchise.
Fire Ryan Poles | Fire Ben Johnson 