The Bear Truth

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.

Funny movie quote or Lovie Smith's first statement at Monday's press conference?

I miss the Bay Area. The place I worked at was across from a Whole Foods and I fattened myself up every morning on their hot bar. Yum.

While I lived in the Bay Area, I grew to sort of enjoy the 49er football legend. Not that I had a choice. If you're into sports in the Bay Area, you either fall in love with Bill Walsh or get your ass kicked onto the pavement of the Bay Bridge.

Thursday game. Short week. Demoralizing defeat. Cross country trip.

Good time to pay a visit to Samurai Coach?

In the Coen movie "Raising Arizona", HI McDonnough tried his best to do good but ended up beaten up, shot at and chased much like a real life Wile E Coyote.

Sound familiar?

Nothing says class like boo'ing the only reason anyone even knows your city exists...and comparing it to a Biblical passage.