According to various sources, there has been “grumbling” within the NFL about the breadth of the Chicago Bears’ coaching search. (And ProFootBallTalk just can’t resist to continue to use the photo of Phil Emery in which he looks like Maxwell Smart). Teams believe that Emery is using the guise of interviews to glean intelligence from [...]
I didn’t write soon enough. Ever since Lovie Smith’s firing, I’ve been thinking the same thing that Dan Pompei wrote in today’s Chicago Tribune. I realize that some Bears fans will think that any remaining vestige of the Lovie Smith era needs to be eradicated from Halas Hall. This would mean immediately firing the entire [...]
Back in 1999 and 2004, I followed the Bears’ searches for a new head coach intently to the last detail. Differences at that time were that I had a hell of a lot more time on my hands, and (even in 2004) every tiny detail wasn’t available virtually immediately as it is now. Therefore, I [...]
Queue up the slide whistle for a look back at the Bears’ organization’s Clown College moments: (For the record, I’m not taking the “Clown College” comment from WSCR’s recent constant use of the phrase. Commenter “Grabber” and I have been calling the Bears organization a Clown College for at least a decade). Even better than [...]
After 33 seasons of watching the Chicago Bears, I’ve gotten a little cynical, admittedly. In those 33 seasons the Bears have made the playoffs 13 times. Having been through watching the pre-Phil Emery Bears step all over themselves and screw up important decisions repeatedly, I find it hard to believe the organization will handle this [...]
December 21st was not judgment day for all of us, as some thought. But December 30th will indeed be just that for the 2012 Bears. But Lovie Smith? Don’t be so sure, regardless of the outcome. Had a long drive this morning and I admit that my thinking I’ll speak to here was motivated by [...]
Watching the Sunday Night Football game last night, when the Seahawks continued their run of fire since beating the Bears, I wondered why I felt like the Bears had lost. Thankfully they didn’t, but I just couldn’t shake that unhappy feeling. Must have been because after starting 7-1, the Bears find themselves needing to win [...]
To quote an old phrase I heard somewhere, sometime in the past, the Bears’ offense certainly has not been what we thought it would be in 2012, has it? So as the Bears ready themselves to play at Arizona for the first time since the 2006 “miracle in the desert,” common wisdom is that the [...]
Bears legend and “fan favorite” Brian Urlacher (how ironic is that?) just made it even easier for his team of 13 seasons to move on without him. That is if the organization does the right thing and realizes how wrong it is for the face of their franchise to insult their paying customers. Once the [...]
On Monday November 5th, 2012, the Bears had a 7-1 record and had just scored 50 points on an (albeit bad) team for the first time in 32 years. Super Bowl talk was in the air after the Bears had beaten up on largely inadequate competition. Flash forward to December 17th. The Bears have lost [...]
