November 27, 2016: Bad News Bears

Our draft pick status is still safe.  Those were the first words I uttered after the Bears comeback against the Titans came up short on Sunday.  It’s the best silver lining spin I can come up with nowadays…

This season has been the pits.  At 2-9, the Bears are in an all out free fall.  On this Sunday, our current season failure was highlighted on the field by our wide receivers.  It was painful and embarrassing to watch.  The wide open drop in the end zone by Bellamy that would have won the game was the worst.  The last play with Thompson was bad too.  The series before that was Wilson in the end zone, and multiple drops by Meredith.  The 10 drops in this game were 5 more than last week.  There were more drops in the past 2 weeks than the first 10 weeks; there were only 11 drops total over that period.  The 10 drops in this game, per Pro Football Focus, were the most in the past 10 years.  We are finding new ways to lose every single week.  We have truly become the Bad News Bears.

And yet another injury… this time Trevathan, done for the year.  The amount of fallen Bears has been way too much for this Bears team to handle with their depth.  Then throw in the suspended guys…

So I was there on Sunday.  The only time I have seen Soldier Field more empty during a Bears game was in the preseason, and even that would be close.  It was sad.  I saw a guy with a Singletary jersey, and we talked about how that number should be retired.  I’m not going to let that go, especially since the last guy, Freeman, was suspended for PEDs.  Brutal.  My favorite jersey was the #17 I saw walking around; the name was “suspended”.  Sure could have used Alshon on this Sunday…. or even the injured Kevin White.  Right after that statement about the Bears lack of franchise QBs should be a statement about lack of WRs too.  Coincidence?

I also have to admit that I left at halftime; I’m even disappointed in myself.  Now there were other reasons why I left that early… still watched the rest of the game just in a different location.  Still, I would never, ever do that.  Heck, I sat until late in the 4th quarter in below zero temps when the Bears were getting stomped by the Pats years ago.  I would stay until almost the end of a preseason game.  I rarely leave early, but I did.  Why?

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Maybe it was.  I thought getting Fox, and going 6-10 in his first year, we would see progress.  It’s sad when 6-10 is looked at as a sign of progress.  But it was… these are the days of our lives as Bears fans.

Still, I watched until the very end.  For the 2nd half, I returned to the site of many, many Bears games.  It was the place where we had witnessed many comebacks, and I’ve shouted “you have to keep the faith” many times.  They almost did it.  They almost won a game.  I know it would have hurt our draft pick status, but it sure would have felt good.  But, no… no, another one on the chin, or in our hands maybe… I could have caught that TD pass at the end that Bellamy dropped.  This is the NFL!  Just unbelievable.  So, so bad…

Which brings us to next week’s match up… maybe the biggest game of the year with the 49ers in a battle for the 2nd overall draft pick.  This is what we have to root for now.  This is what it has come to?

I’d still like to win.  I’d like to knock the crap out of Kaepernick.  I’d like to see Barkley have a nice game.  Like I said many times, it’s impossible to root for the Bears to lose.  But it is possible, that by losing, and getting that draft pick, we may have the silver lining of this Bears season… one that may be franchise changing.  God knows we need it, although a win would be really nice too…  Trying to keep my head up…