Archive - 2009

Da Little Lady, Da Dad, Da Kid

Peace

Happiness

Prosperity

New Coach

New GM

New O line

New Receivers

Etc..etc...

is a new Bears regime...

(although I do find a bit sad that people donated money for the billboard when there are far needier people out there and far more important causes).

Ted Phillips, Jerry Angelo

As I drove home from work on Tuesday I settled in to listen to Hub Arkush on WSCR.

The next half hour listening it took every cell in my body not to drive my car into a median, as Hub Arkush discusses how "decisions" are made in the front office and on replays.

This makes the Cubs organization look like the Phillies's organization.

Jerry Angelo the king of plausable denial.

Please listen while no sharp objects are around you, knowing that Angelo is signed through 2013.

http://podcast.670thescore.com/wscr2/2112124.mp3

If the above does not work go to site and go to Boers and Bernstein 5-6 pm podcast-

http://www.670thescore.com/pages/3578055.php

You know, you have these delusions of grandeur of starting a new Bears blog, one that will be better and smarter than anything else out there. Then life gets in the way, work, family, etc. Then the Bears start dropping like flies into a bug zapper, the offensive line does their matador impression all year, the defense lets more guys score than the Bunny Ranch on HBO and all your enthusiam is drained out of you.

Sigh.

On a good note for blog traffic, the Bears may have their public relations ammunition to fire Lovie and Angelo after losing twice to the Packers.  Not that losing to the Packers this year is such a terrible thing, like let's say losing to the Lions twice, but Lovie's proclamation of beating the Packers when he took the job could come back to bite him in the ass and give the McCaskeys and Ted Phillips a hollow talking point to fire him and hopefully Angelo.

Of course, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to fire both, starting with the inability to draft successfully, being a defensive specialist coach with a poor defense the last 2 years, having no idea how to put together an offensive line, the dearth of penalties, having no idea what a good receivers looks like, continuing to employ Ron Turner, so on and so on.

So as I checked in I was gonna pass on a great link, but user Jumbo beat me to it in a comment in my last post. I haven't had a chance to argue with Jumbo (or anyone else here) but I gotta say it will be hard to argue with a dude who linked up to something I was intending this original post to be about.

Anyway, here is the link:

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/cover-3/2009/cover-1-whats-wrong-jay-cutler

I think this article does a much better job than I did describing what I've been describing about describing about how I am describing my frustrations about the bears, without really describing my real frustrations about them.

Let's hope that there is some kid named Rocky Wirtz around somewhere in the mccaskey (I will not honor this family with its Irish name until they honor us)  family, and let's hope Virginia is not like that Bitch on Heroes if and when if finally shows up. ...... AHHH then, the world says fuck you virginia m(oh dear TMZ has found us).

Too many people (including yours truly)have pesimestic thoughts on the 2009 Bears, but this week we should be able to smile away.

It's good to live in Texas, sometimes. Because here, they know good football, and even if the Bears game had been the primary Fox game, here in Texas, they would have found a way to black them out.

I didn't see the game. I have no idea why the Lord above saved me from it, but He did. That's Texas speak, btw, and it feels just right, just right now.

What I could tell from the line score was that my earlier defense on this blog of Cutler may have possibly been premature, but that, for sure, my disgust with the Pits was right on target.

For those unfamiliar with the term "pit", it's the term football coaches use for the front line. Both sides. It's a mash pit, and, generally, whatever team wins in the mash pit, on any level of play, high school, college, or NFL, wins the game.

There was an article I saw yesterday in the Trib about how Cutler was, statistically, in better shape than almost all the other QBs in the league in terms of sacks.

I guess the article writer hasn't noticed the pressures. Do those get recorded? Oh, yes, they do. And last I saw, Cutler was number two in the league in pressures. In other words, if he doesn't pass as soon as his hands touch the ball he's in deep shit.

Cutler is not Grossman. Cutler is a QB sitting behind a paper bag offensive line. If he takes them out to dinner, I recommend a really  bad restaurant that makes them all sick for the rest of their lives.

Ugh.

I apologize to my TCR brethren for not coming up with something to read this week end while TCR is down. But jeebus the last thing the Bears need right now is a game up in Minnesota.

Instead of watching this massacre I suggest you do the following things this Sunday at 3:00 pm Central.

-Get to know your family

-Christmas Shopping

-Take a walk, its 55 degrees here in Chicago on Nov 28!

-Make a diorama out of your Thanksgiving leftovers of the Bears beating the Cowboys 44-0 in a 1985 game

Ok? We will survive this.

According to Chicago NFL guru Hub Arkush on WSCR today, his sources are telling him that Bear ownership is inquiring about Mike Shanahan, Mike Holgrem, Jon Gruden and Bill Cowher regarding their costs.

Arkush reiterated that this was very preliminary and more of kicking the wheels then any actual active negotiations.

I would prefer Holgrem.

How about you?

UPDATE- WSCR reporting only three candidates were contacted- Shanahan, Cowher and Gruden

Jay Cutler was suppose to be the answer for the long Bears drought of quarterbacks, although he's done very little to reassure us that he's any better than his predecessors.  Someone made a Sporcle quiz to name all the Bears Qb's since 1985. I scored a 21...the scab years are brutal. Also, if you were able to watch the Thursday night game against the 49ers a few weeks back, you'd have seen John Moschitta run through all the Bears QB's since Jim McMahon. Thanks to the wonderfully named Bear Goggles On, I have the video of it after the jump.