December 2, 2014: December Swoon

Here we sit in December again, just when football season should be getting good.  Here we sit in December again, and the Bears have failed us again.  They have taken the joy out of football from here on out.

I know I’m biased, but I would rank Chicago pretty high on the football city list across the country.  Of course I would rank Chicago #1, but even the non-biased people in the know, know, that Bears fans are among the best in the country.  Why then has the product on the field been in the tank?  Why will be sitting on our couches after week 17 watching the good teams play football in January?  Why aren’t the Bears in that group year in year out?

Where to start…  It’s top to bottom really.  You have to go all the way to the top and look at the ownership.  What is it about the McCaskey family that sucks?  We know better than anybody how bad they have been.  Why do we get stuck with a bum ownership family?  This didn’t happen overnight, but change COULD happen overnight.  Remember William Wirtz…  Besides waiting for that, because you don’t want to wish that upon anybody, we’re stuck.  We also need to hope there’s somebody in the McCaskey family like Rocky Wirtz when that time comes.

Next in line is Ted Phllips, President & CEO.  What is he accountable for?  That’s a question we can ask of each level of this mess.  Who has that answer?  Are the McCaskey’s making the decisions or is Ted Phillips?  What really goes on behind closed doors?  He’s been around since 1999, so… counting this year, there have been 16 opportunities for the Bears to make the playoffs.  How many times HAVE they made the playoffs?  4.  Unacceptable?  Uh, yeah…  Again, where is the accountability for the Bears failures?

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That brings us to the coaching staff headed up by Marc Trestman.  Yep, 0 for 2.  It’s only his 2nd year, and he was originally signed to a 4 year deal.  I know it’s still early in the big scheme of things, but at this rate, he’s got to GO… along with his entire coaching staff.  Emery needs to push for this to save his ass, unless he wants to go down with him.  Monday after Week 17, the entire coaching staff should be canned, yet, does that solve the problem?  We know we still have problems higher up, but what about the last level?

The players are the ones on the field that have to play above all the BS.  They’re the ones on the field each and every week putting it all on the line, and getting well compensated for it.  I guess that’s where my question comes in with this group… are these players committed to this?  If not, is it due to the coaching or does the onus fall on the players themselves?  Yes, a bad coaching staff does not help this situation (neither does a poor GM, president, or owner), but at the end of the day, the players have to be accountable for their own performance.  If that was true, it would be nice to NOT pay any of the Bears (except Matt Forte maybe) a full paycheck this year, because they haven’t earned a damn thing.

Damn that’s depressing…  if there is no change, I can’t help but think this thing will get worse before it gets better, and after this year up to this point, that’s hard to imagine… that’s painful to think about… that gets me downright pissed off.  What will it take to turn this ship that is the Bears franchise around?  More to come…