October 20, 2014: Highly Predictable

Should we be surprised at this point?  Yeah, I know this isn’t what we signed up for at the start of the year.  We signed up for a dominating offense, and expected one with multiple weapons, a newly paid “franchise QB”, and an “offensive genius” at the helm in his 2nd year.  Heck, even the offensive line was returning intact, which usually means good things.  Yeah, well it’s that same offense that let us down again Sunday.

What about that defense?  Well, when you’re playing against Dan Marino Jr. aka Ryan Tannehill, you can’t expect them to play that great.  Yeah, they kind of flopped too.  Coming off their best performance against a pretty good offense on the road, we expected them to build on that vs this nobody-on-this-team-scares-me Miami Dolphins team.  Well, it seems only Jay Ratliff got that memo.  It didn’t help to have our DROY candidate sidelined with an injury, although his mistake early was the cause of the first Miami TD.  The defense did give us a fighting chance at the end when they held Miami to only 1 FG after 2 turnovers deep in our own end, but… then they let Miami score a FG after a 5 minute drive late in the 4th that sealed the deal, and eliminated any chance of a comeback.  I didn’t think they’d allow 27 points vs this Miami team, but I certainly didn’t think we’d only score 14…

Two first downs in the first half?  What are we the Jacksonville Jaguars or the Oakland Raiders?  Two Matt Forte runs in the first half?  I read afterwards that we were taking what the defense gave us in the first half…. what exactly did they GIVE us?  We didn’t score any points!  I got upset early in this one.  We had the ball in good field position after stopping Miami 3 and out on their first drive.  We got in a very manageable 3rd and 1 at midfield, when Jay decided to go deep to Jeffery instead of getting the easy first down to keep the drive alive.  I don’t mind going deep… I think we should do that more often, but that was NOT the time.  We missed an opportunity to continue the drive into Dolphins’ territory, punted, then promptly gave up the first score of the game and the Dolphins never looked back.  Decision making may be Cutler’s biggest weakness.

So where were all these weapons on Sunday?  Going against CBs where we had a significant size advantage, while facing a defense that was one of the worst vs the TE, we couldn’t take advantage.  Paging Mark Trestman.  Paging Aaron Kromer.  With the perceived advantages on offense in this one, how did we not score more points?  Yes, Jay threw another horrible INT, and had 2 fumbles to boot in this one, which infuriates me, but there is some blame to share here.  Unacceptable is the right word as used by Marshall numerous times in his postgame comments.  He was part of the problem in this one too.
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It’s just so frustrating.  I’ve expressed this feeling many times this season, especially when it comes to the offense.  We come out in the 3rd quarter and march right down the field to score a TD.  I just wish we would have known the correct start time of the game.  Who had the most touches on that drive?  Matt Forte… 10 of them, including the TD.  And we didn’t think giving him the ball in the first half would be a good idea???  Who comes up with this gameplan anyways?  Who has the ability to change it at the line?  Who is responsible for executing it?  Yeah, plenty of blame to spread around in this one, especially on offense.

So, the Bears are NOT who we thought they were.  They are an average, inconsistent team that continues to frustrate a starving fan base.  Kyle Long upset about the booing?  When you can’t score 1 fricking point, and get only 2 first downs in the first half?  Yeah, you deserve it.  To play 3 games at home this year and have ZERO victories?  Yeah you deserve it.  When you’ve made the playoffs 1 time in 6 years?  When you are 2-10 against your hated rival the last 6 years?  Shall I continue?  I love these guys who think the fans shouldn’t boo them…  We invest a lot into this team on a yearly basis, and I’m talking more than just money.  We have to start the work week in a bad mood.  We have to go through another week listening to why we can’t win at home?  We have to watch CBS show highlight after highlight of another division team who is doing what they are supposed to do… beat a lesser team.    Kyle, grow a set, and get back to me… you’re not the only one that invests their heart into this team, and if you really did, if your team really did, you’d sure play a hell of a lot better than you did, and then we’d be cheering.  When we’re not seeing what we expect to see, when this team continues to come up short of expectations, when this team sleepwalks through another home game, you’re lucky all we did was boo.  Asshole!

A 3-4 Bears team with their targets set on missing the playoffs again this year is NOT what I want to talk about.  I’m pissed.  This IS unacceptable.  Why is it every game we’re “supposed to win”, we fall flat on our face?  Why can’t we win at home?  Why has this become the trend?  That being said, should we expect anything less than the Bears to surprise us next week in Foxboro?  If anything, this season has become highly predictable.  This season we can all sit back and predict with confidence that the one thing we know about this team is that it is unpredictable.  We can only hope that they stay unpredictable and bounce back and make the playoffs after a 3-4 start.  Happy Monday!