NFL 2011-2012

[Vampyr]

I really like the Bears, but it's cool to see the Lions doing well. I'm looking forward to a not-horrible Thanksgiving football game.

[KillerGremlin]

Jesus Christ our offensive line is horrible. I feel sorry for Cutler.

Cutler not tough? Cutler not dedicated? Holy fuck I think he could be a top-10 Quarterback if he actually had a line. As a Bears fan, this is what I have been watching/putting up with all this season and all last season. I just am happy that we have a national audience to confirm that Cutler is actually tough, and that our O-Line is literally the worst thing I have ever seen in professional football.

I know the Bears are plagued with injuries, but that's not an excuse. Our second and third string players shouldn't suck so bad. Jerry Angelo, you are the worst GM ever; I have never seen such a stretch of poor draft choices. Lovie Smith, you suck too. What the fuck was that horrible game management during the first drive? What was with that horrible challenge? Where is your emotion, you emotionless bag of dicks.

It sucks watching our team come unhinged, especially when Cutler is a good QB and is likely going to peace out of Chicago and go win games somewhere else. It's going to be a long rebuilding process for Chicago. Bleh.

On a lighter note, congrats to the Lions. You still have some work to do, like finding a run game early on. But the Lions vs. Packers rivalry will be very exciting over the next 5-10 years. (and sorry, Bond, I know you wanted the Bears to win. The Packers aren't walking off as division champs without a fight ).

Edit: Forte too. In case you guys didn't know, the Bear's manager Jerry Angelo didn't want to negotiate contracts with Matt Forte. Just pay the guy, right? I hope that Forte and Cutler escape this crappy mess and go have successful careers because there is mad talent between the two. Greg Olsen is lucky he got out.

[KillerGremlin]

To all you angry Eagle fans:

That’ll about do it.

Blocking isn’t good enough, tackling isn’t good enough, and it’s too bad that both matter so much.

Lovie Smith’s defensive philosophy works, when the front four generates consistent, gap-shooting pressure, and the safeties execute professional discipline in the half-field splits.

And when Brian Urlacher isn’t old and slower. Bend-but-not-break looks an awful lot like bend-and-then-break, and it’s broken by better players. This was all fun, before the arrival of Aaron Rodgers, Calvin Johnson, and any number of talented guys that were drafted by divisional opponents and can expose the house of cards.

Jerry Angelo has wasted valuable draft picks on bad players, covering his rear end by spending big globs of money on free agents, most of whom were also bad. Julius Peppers is an amazing talent, but he doesn’t matter, really, now.

The Jay Cutler trade made all the sense in the world – it made even those of us jaded by the general malaise of Bearsness joyful as we could be – but it seems shot. His abilities for which they dealt are now needed to keep plays alive after porous protection and short-armed receiving efforts.

What’s the endgame? Where is this heading?

Mike Martz is in the final year of his contract, and his offense can barely get a play called. His pigheaded vision has made a swaggering gunslinger look skittish and fearful. Nobody seems to know what anybody is doing. Cutler’s great feet, natural athleticism and rifle arm are called upon only to keep things barely afloat, when they were acquired to put them over the top.

Frank Omiyale sucks. Never mind that he was targeted as a need signing on the first day of his free-agency, by Angelo and his pro-personnel people, apparently from an opium den.

Nobody else on the line can really block, either. We waste so much time arguing about playcalling and run/pass balance, when the Bears can neither pass-protect nor plow forward. That makes us as dumb as everyone we’re criticizing.

The roster is littered with undrafted college scrubs, overtalked and overpromoted to fill holes. A few more injuries and you’ll see how bad it looks when really awful players have to fill important roles in the most Darwinistic sport there is.

Devin Hester is the best return man of all time. He’s also an incompetent receiver.

Roy Williams followed the advice of Muhsin Muhammad, and came to Chicago to die. Get the urn.

Brandon Merriweather is some kind of football sociopath. There’s something wrong with him, but he was deemed worthy of a contract extension because Craig Steltz can’t play.

Two teams in the NFC North are better, and will be for a while. Any week-to-week hopes of lucky turnovers, advantages in the return game or missed field goals are for fools. That’s not how the game is played by real teams, anymore.

Angelo, Smith and the Bears are on the wrong side of history.

Bad drafts, bad signings, desperate trades and hamstrung, stubborn coaches have the Bears staring at a dark road.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/10/...ing-of-the-end

The Bears are officially the ass clowns of the NFC. The NFL. We are now sharing a canoe with the Seahawks and the Dolphins.