October 15th, 2007
“The Bears are Who We Thought They Were!”
People in Chicago laughed at Coach Dennis Green when after a last second field goal lifted the Bears over Green’s Cardinals last season. Coach Green was portrayed as a out of control lunatic, unlike our coach, quiet and demure Lovie Smith. Both of these coaches are black and the quiet and demure one still coaches while the lunatic is doing commercials. The amazing thing we now know Coach Green was right when he said about the beloved Bears in an enraged state, “The Bears are what we thought they were, if you want to crown them crown them, we let them off the hook!” The feel of euphoria, we all felt over the Bears last is gone. The reality is, counting the Super Bowl; Da Bears have only won 2 of their last 7 games.
I have never been a big fan of Lovie, but we now need a head coach like Dennis Green, one with a temper and are not too timid to kick some ass. Another option is to bring home Mike Singleterry as head coach. I hope I am wrong but, unless the Bears run the table, there will be no playoffs run this year for the Bears
I was at the game yesterday when we lost to Minnesota. There were 2 young players on the field that turned the game out Devin Hester caught a punt kicked away over his left shoulder and returned it 89 yards for a TD, they coach you not to touch a punt inside the 10, but catch it on the 11 running backwards and juke and duck your way to a seam and explode to the end zone is ok. This is the second game I have witnessed this year and the second Hester Punt return for a TD. The last time he covered 79 yards in 9 seconds while avoiding tackles and carrying a football and wearing pads. There are some fast people that would have a hard time going faster in shorts and t, and no tacklers. Devin is amazing.
On the other side, the young man from the University of Okalahoma Adrian Peterson showed us what we thought Cedric Benson could be. I would have to question if Solider field has ever seen a better offensive showing. Peterson ran like OJ Simpson only harder to tackle; he is that great and at this point of his career maybe only Eric Dickerson can be mentioned in the same breath. Why did we kick to him to end the game? Why did Minnesota continue to challenge Hester? Maybe because the kickoff is mostly routine in returns are often to the 20. The difference these 2 stars are way beyond routine. Free advice for coaches, kick away from both.
So to Quote Dennis Green, “The Bears are Who we Though They Were! There is too much talent on this team to be only that, Lovie chew. some ass!
October 16th, 2007 at 9:49 am
While, I am not a fan of over emotional coaches. And I consider Dunghy and Lovie my idea of the type of people I would want my son to play for or be mentors to. I recognize that people and yes even my son needs their ass chewed sometimes. So maybe Lovie should do some intentionla ass chewing as you say.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Emile, I agree with soft coaches to lead young college players.The bears have a chance to win a super bowl, and I have to wonder if Lovie had better handled the Rex thing, and played another QB, would have the result have been different There is something wrong in the locker room, our division is weak and we are 0 and 2 in division games. As a Bear fan, I want victories now!
October 17th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
ahh JD. You are talking on a subject I have study I mean been a fan for about 26yrs(my whole life) . I disagree that Lovie should chew some ass and do not think Lovie is the problem. Injuries and the front office is to blame for if the Bears do not when a Championship this decade.
Unfortunalty that have been biten by the curse of the losing superbowl team (the next year that team does not even make it to the playoffs) , but I think if the front gives Lovie some weapons on offense like they did on defense then we could be a lot better. I mean think about the best Offensive player in the past ten years is Olin Kreutz. The front office refuses to get a QB that is a star or become a star. I can go on for hours but I will not about how the Bears refuse to spend on good talnet. So It does not matter if Mike S. was the coach because just like Dennis Green said the Bears are who they thought they were. A great defensive with a terrible offense.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
My brother, you are the man, Lovie can succeed, I think there is a problem in the locker room. Tank is gone, Thomas Jones and the denfensive cordinator. All team favorites, something smells, Lovie screwed upped by hanging with,Rex too long, Greise should have been getting some time last year, and now we have Orton rotting on the bench. Has he improved, we do not know,
You are right about Angelgo, he was wrong about Rex and now Benson.
My other beloved team Buffalo, returned to the Super Bowl 4 years straight. But they had a hall of fame QB, RB and Coach, with a possible Wide out, and defense end, James Loften the other wide out is in the hall, and to top it off, Bill Pollian was the GM. Using the Buffalo team as a bench mark maybe we expect too much from our Bears. Thanks for the drop by. I will high light your great sports blog soon
October 20th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Way to put in perspective. I think the years of having teams like the Bils, Cowboys, and, 49ers where their are so many stars on the team that the practice squad could be seen signing autographs. The only reason why those days are going away is because teams do not want to spend the money. The Bears are put in that category even though the fan base is great! Just imagine if they spent some that revenue in the right places?