Sunday brought us another NBS… No Bears Sunday. Another Sunday without any stress surrounding the ups and downs through 4 quarters; another end/start to the week with no sick feeling in my stomach. Last week we got that out of the way early with the Thursday game; this week, it’s Monday Night Football time. Obviously hoping for a different result this time around, one that will NOT screw up my week a day late.
As always though, when the Bears do NOT play, I have a rooting interest: whoever the Packers are playing. This week it happened to be the same team that beat us last Thursday. How on earth could we lose to the crappy ass Commanders? That just showed how bad of a team the Bears are; unreal… No good team could lose to that bum squad… Well, I guess someone else isn’t a good team either??? The Packers lost for the third straight week, this time against the woeful Commanders; check the window ledges around town in Green Bay. How bad are the Packers? Well, bad enough, that with a Bears win on Monday night, we’d have the same exact record at 3-4… and oh yeah, they have a HOF QB and we don’t. Seeing them lose again though… with Rodgers face down on the field after the final whistle… pump it into my veins. This is the type of stuff that will keep me going, until the Bears get good again.
Getting a win against the Patriots certainly doesn’t change things overnight, but… this is how you build towards something; you win games. The Bears have let a couple winnable games slip through our fingers this year; this makes sense… this is what happens to teams that don’t know how to win. You need to learn how. We’ll definitely take our lumps, we’ve taken our lumps, while we try to learn this important information. How do you win games? Well, score more than the other team, duh. But yeah, how? You need to be able to win a variety of ways. A combination of offense and defense, of running and passing, of blitzing and coverage, winning the battle in the trenches, winning the turnover battle, not making stupid mistakes/penalties… it’s all part of it. Coaching helps too; is this coaching staff helping put the Bears in position to get these Ws? Before the season, it goes up the ladder, to those folks putting talent on the field; what kind of job did they do? Yeah, it’s not a simple task, trying to do something 31 other teams are trying to do in a week in week out basis, but that’s the name of the game: winning.
Winning is certainly something the team across the field from us on Monday night knows a lot about. The Patriots have a franchise, with a Hall of Fame coach, for most of the past couple decades a Hall of Fame QB, that won, won, and won some more; sickening if you ask me. Then you sprinkle in the cheating… Well, there is no fine print on all of those Super Bowl titles, let me tell you. No Patriots fan is worried about that. We can bitch about it all we want, right or wrong, it is, what it is. Just like that first trip to the Super Bowl for both franchises about 36 years ago. The reason we still remember 46-10 and everybody/everything that led up to/went in to that, is because that’s all we got, savvy? It’s better to have something than nothing…
Of course if you add up all the titles pre-Super Bowl, the Bears have the 2nd most with 9, trailing only the “on the downside” heading Packers at 13; the Giants are third with 8. The Steelers and Patriots come in next with 6. Nobody wants to hear about anything pre-Super Bowl, but it did happen, so yeah… the Bears ARE one of the winningest franchises of all time, no matter the “recent” struggles, just like the heavily lauded 6-time Super Bowl champ Pats. It is what it is… what will happen in the next matchup of these franchises which have a total of 15 NFL Titles between them? See you Monday night. Bear Down!!!
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