The Don’t Care Bears
Looks like the Bears are in freefall mode. On Sunday in Foxboro the Patriots laid 38 points on them in the first half alone, a Chicago franchise record. Seriously, since 1920, that had never happened. For the first time in their history, it feels like the defense is the problem. You’d never know it looking at fan reactions. CUTLER SUCKS, CUTLER LOST, THE OFFENSE IS BROKEN.
While the Offense seems to be having some issues and isn’t firing on all cylinders, and Cutler is far from perfect, how can anyone look at a team that had 51 points dropped on them and blame the offense? The defense is astoundingly bad. I think Bears fans are just blaming the O because they’ve never had to blame the defense before. Ever. It’s always been the offense that sucked. Now the world is topsy turvy, cats are living with dogs, mass hysteria.
But Cutler don’t care. Here, have a thing I made for Kissing Suzy Kolber on the Bears.
TBF I’ve been blaming the Bears defense for a lot the past few years. It’s an aging, ineffective unit.
Remember when the Cowboys gave up 51 points but it was Romo’s fault they lost to the Broncos? Good Times.
Gronk seems somewhat overdressed, considering he’s Gronk.
Also, re: blaming the defense. I think your comment about not wanting to blame the defense perfectly sums it up.
I mean, Cutler isn’t a great QB, but he’s perfectly adequate. Did anyone really think he was ever magically going to become a great QB?
Feels like every year, some analyst predicts that it will Cutler’s breakout year. Every. Year.
The problem with Smokin’ J is that every once in a while he does something that only a select few other QBs could do. He has the gifts, specifically the arm, to make really special plays, and so his ceiling is so high people just want him to reach it (or at least come close). Alex Smith never makes a throw that makes you think, “Damn, nobody else could have done that” but Cutler does it pretty regularly.
Seeing what he COULD be compared to what he actually is has to be an exercise in frustration for Bears fans. As a Packers fan, I have to say nothing warms the soul quite so much as an errant Cutler pick-6…
Spot on. Kaepernick is the latest iteration of Cutler…except he cares, and doesn’t smoke (at least cigarettes, anyway).
It seems like you did this before-having a major deja vu here.
The Patriots scored 3 touchdowns in 57 seconds, almost in as little time as they did with buttfumble (3 in 51 seconds). When the Pats scored, I laughed. Then the more they scored, the less I laughed. When the Bears scored I literally said “they’re letting the Bears have some pity touchdowns now”. It was fun in the beginning, but then it just got horrifying and I couldn’t watch any more. It was torture and I’m a Pats fan. It was like watching the CIA painfully torture someone on live TV and you’re on the side of the CIA. It was awful-worse than the Kansas City game where WE got thrashed. I don’t wanna see that ever again.
Cutler is not a bad QB and if the Bears D really WAS made up of scarecrows, they would have done better than they really did.
Mel Tucker’s strategy is to hope the Offense scores more than the other team’s office, while the Defense lines up so that the other team’s offense isn’t out there alone.
As a lifelong Bears fan (1988-present), I’ve seen this song and dance before…
…but it was when I was but a child in the mid 90s….
….and it had a broom stache, coupled with a lost expression…
…..My high-water mark to now was destroying the Saints in the NFC Championship Game in beautiful, snowy, Soldier Field…..
……dammit, I need more alcohol…….
Jay Cutler is overrated in my opinion, but he’s far from the primary problem with that team. Fact is Trestman is feeling like bizarro Rex Ryan: Offensive genius, but no clue how to work defense.
¿Cuál es el significado de un hombre que se niega a dejar que el bebé en el agua del baño ? ¿Por qué los osos atacan nuestra moral ? De todos modos – el espantapájaros es demasiado miedo. Van los halcones !
As a Bears fan, talking to other fans has been almost as painful as the losses. If you look at his stats, Cutler is having the best year of his career and is on pace to set the Bears single season record in yards, touchdowns and completion percentage (not that bar is set that high) but all anyone talks about is how terrible he is.
I can’t tell if you intentionally used Bear Down as a nod to Gronk’s UA career or not.