Soul

Sheesh. A guy launches himself with his helmet at Cutler and gets no penalty yardage, and Cutler flips the ball at a guy and gets 15 yards. Something not right with that.

Thank you for the shank!

Oh... now you're one of the crazies. Nah; the OL was already a critical weakness, and now it's somehow going to be improved to manageable by swapping in spare parts? Sorry, it doesn't work like that. Couple that with the terrible, terrible and easily countered playcalling and they're likely to get trounced by any quality team that didn't back their way into the playoffs. Yeah, it's football and anything can happen, but the Bears have looked like hot garbage in the two losses they've had against genuinely good teams this year...there's losing and then there's getting destroyed. Cutler being in there against the Niners wouldn't have made much of a difference; they're simply going to have to face too many good teams in the postseason for them to have a real chance to do much of anything. Their offense is simply too flawed and scattershot to pull it off. Understood. But think of it this way. The Texans cheap-shotted Cutler, got him out of the game and eeked out a win. Then the 49ers cleaned up with no Cutler. Yes, the Bears are flawed. But with Cutler, it's possible -- though unlikely -- that they could challenge a good team in the playoffs. I'm not going to throw this team away after seeing them without our best player against 2 of the top teams. I want to see them with our best player against those teams. Then I'll admit defeat if they lose. Do people honestly think the SF game would have been much different with Cutler in there? That line was collapsing almost instantly left and right. No, you're right. They killed us and Cutler wouldn't have mattered. I think we had a good shot against the Texans with Cutler, in the 2nd half.

Oh... now you're one of the crazies. Nah; the OL was already a critical weakness, and now it's somehow going to be improved to manageable by swapping in spare parts? Sorry, it doesn't work like that. Couple that with the terrible, terrible and easily countered playcalling and they're likely to get trounced by any quality team that didn't back their way into the playoffs. Yeah, it's football and anything can happen, but the Bears have looked like hot garbage in the two losses they've had against genuinely good teams this year...there's losing and then there's getting destroyed. Cutler being in there against the Niners wouldn't have made much of a difference; they're simply going to have to face too many good teams in the postseason for them to have a real chance to do much of anything. Their offense is simply too flawed and scattershot to pull it off. Understood. But think of it this way. The Texans cheap-shotted Cutler, got him out of the game and eeked out a win. Then the 49ers cleaned up with no Cutler. Yes, the Bears are flawed. But with Cutler, it's possible -- though unlikely -- that they could challenge a good team in the playoffs. I'm not going to throw this team away after seeing them without our best player against 2 of the top teams. I want to see them with our best player against those teams. Then I'll admit defeat if they lose.

Oh welcome back Jay :) :)

He caught it? And hung on?

You can thank the surface for that not being a pick 6 right there. Nice play to Bennett.

what the hell was that.

Oh god you're right.

Then the Bears created 2 problems at the same time by promoting Tice: they moved Tice away from OL coaching where he was at least decent, and moved him in as OC where he's incompetent.

Joe Girardi's phone just rang and he answered it. He didn't have any plans this weekend. How many players made the all star team and then DFA'd all in the same season/offseason.

With Carimi we are pretty much forced to give him more time. There's just too many other pieces on that line that need to be fixed. If he doesn't show improvement next year, it's a disaster. Hard to believe. I was overjoyed at that pick. Sure, he didn't project as a LT but if Gabe Carimi isn't a solid OL pick then I just don't know what to say. He should have been just fine.

Thought I heard him say he's fine, darn

x1000 You'd think more people would recognize how good he's been for the franchise, but many don't. Well, maybe after last night, for a little while, everyone will.

Heh. Rock on.

Well, I am more comfortable with people doubting the Bears. And brother, they'll be doubting the Bears now.

I get it. We aren't fixing the OLine next offseason though. It's one of those things where, I will believe it when I see it.

Yep.

I've had enough.

Even with a "good matchup" MNF still sucks.

Hey look at the bright side. Next April & May we get to freak out once again over the Bears lack of attention to the OLine.

I love this. Kaepernick is just another lucky strike by a team, I guess. Yet the Bears can't find anything at QB without sacrificing 2 entire drafts.

Also, welcome to 2nd place :(

I hope he's got his post-football resume ready. If he can't come in as a backup, there's nothing left. Hanie was better.

Booze. Might be time to start drinking a bit.