At 3-7, the Bears season is over for all intensive purposes. The tank mode is in full effect as the Bears will spend the rest of the year draft pick hunting; trying to improve our draft position is the goal. With all of our picks, this upcoming draft will be one of the most important in recent history; am I overstating that? I don’t know… it better be. Shit, accepting this year as one of many losses… there better be something good at the end of the rainbow. Did we really have to lose to the Lions though… at home???
Looking at the schedule before the season, before the Roquan Smith trade, I thought there were some winnable games. As I look at the remaining schedule, those games are few and far between. Dates with the Eagles and Bills can be chalked up as Ls. Road games against the Falcons, Jets, and Lions certainly don’t feel lost yet… Home dates with the Packers and Vikings… well… if there was one more game I’d like to win this year, it’s December 4th at home against Green Bay. 4-13… I guess the prognosticators were correct. The Bears will turn out to be one of the worst teams in the league, but this is a good thing, right? With all the picks, the cap space, Fields improvement… the Bears would certainly be primed to bounce back and make the playoffs next year, right?
I hate wasting any year. By trading Roquan Smith, we essentially waved the white flag for this season; 35 & 31 points have been given up by our defense since. I know… we had to get something for him; well, that’s if your mind was made up to not sign him, which I don’t agree with, but moving on… Yeah, that trade sunk the rest of the year for us. Getting Claypool the next day gave us some more hope for the offense; hope that the offense will be able to outscore the other team, since we’d be giving up a whole lot of points from here on out. Where was Claypool again yesterday? One catch? Against the Lions? Our newly acquired “star” WR? I guess he needs time to learn the playbook, but he went to Notre Dame, right? Those guys have brains, no? Come on… one fricking catch?!?! No excuse for that.
Since we’re going on the path to the higher draft pick, let’s stop calling so many designed run plays for Fields. Look, the dude is a stud athlete; anybody disputing that at this point looks silly. Question remains will he be a stud QB; I think he can be. He has a big arm, buys himself more time in the pocket, is learning to go through his progressions… I think he’s going to be OK. In the meantime, your first play call of the game is a designed run for Fields? Things that make you go hmmm… Sure, let Fields run every play; he’d probably get about 200 yards rushing… we’d probably all be very excited, but… how does THAT play into the long term future of this franchise, considering we’ve clearly made the decision that Fields IS the franchise? Look, I’m fine with that decision; I hope this kid DOES turn out to be the franchise… I want to build around him, give him all the talent, coaching possible to help him be THE guy. So… how about we stop calling so many designed runs for him then? What, are we trying to get him killed out there? I love watching him duck and dodge and burn past defenders… trust me; love it. I won’t love it when he gets mangled out there; he’s NOT a running back. Scrambling from pressure, making those magical, improvised plays, go crazy; calling QB sweeps and draws??? How about we scale that back a bit, eh?
If we’re going to lose from here on out, if we’re going to try to get as high of a pick as possible, fine; let’s not get Fields killed out there in the process. I’ve already called it, that he will have a “phantom injury” that will shelve him for the rest of the year at some point; that makes sense. Running him into the ground doesn’t. If we still want to do that for some reason, then let’s save it all for December 4th, ok? Bear Down!
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