September 16, 2014: Keep It Moving

This IS the NFL.  Injuries WILL happen.  The Bears are NOT immune to them.  We’ve took a beating these first couple weeks, but no injury was worse than what happened to #33.  Injuries are OK, as long as you can return from them.  However, if it is season ending, it sucks.  This is the case with Charles Tillman.

I was glad when the Bears brought him back for the 1 year.  This is the same thing I thought they should have done for both Urlacher and Hester.  These guys are all Bears for life, regardless of how each of their Bear careers ended.  For Urlacher, he had a choice (after the Bears lowballed him), and chose to retire.  For Hester, he also had a choice after the Bears refused to bring him back; he’s currently catching balls and returning kicks for the Dirty Birds.  (For the record, 2014 Devin Hester is still better than any options we currently have on special teams.)  For Tillman, it’s an injury that is deciding his fate.  Even if he returns from it, and wants to play next year, it’s unlikely the Bears will re-up again.  It’s not fair when the end of your career is decided by injury, but this looks like the fate for Tillman.

It’s a downer after a glorious Bears victory.  It reminds us how week to week the NFL really is; not only the outcome of each game, but each player’s season & career can change in one play.  Isn’t that the story of life though?  One day, one event can change the path of your life forever.  How we respond to this game changer defines us; how the Bears respond to this injury will define this season.

For Tillman, maybe he works twice as hard just to get back on the field again.  If that’s the case, maybe the Bears extend him one more year.  Maybe the story of Peanut is not over; but that’s next year’s business.  What about this year?  How do the Bears respond to this season changing injury?

Well, I’ll start off with Kyle Fuller.  Let’s all be happy we drafted him.  Yes, he made 2 awesome picks yesterday, but more importantly, he was drafted to be the CB who will permanently step in for Peanut; we just didn’t think that would be Game 3 of this year.  What about that CB depth?  Hayden, Frye… are these guys still around?  One of our other DBs got hurt Sunday night too, although he should be back.  So Fuller and Jennings are a nice starting duo, but how do we cover everybody when Green Bay lines up 5 wide against us in 2 weeks?

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We have no backup QB.  We have no backup RB.  We have no good WRs after Marshall and Jeffery.  We’d be OK at TE if Bennett went down… I think.  LBs are thin.  CBs are thin.  Safeties are thin, heck, we don’t even like the guys we have now starting at this position.  When Cutler got up from the postgame interview, and made a comment that this team is deep, I chuckled.  Which team is he talking about?

I hope Jay is right.  I hope Emery and Trestman are right.  I hope we can sustain these injuries and keep it moving in a positive direction.  There’s no need to talk Super Bowl, or playoffs, or anything else for that matter, without some other guys stepping up.  “Next Man Up”.. I guess that’s the Bears slogan.  Well, let’s prove that.  The OL already has a positive mark for that.  How will the secondary look in Week 3 and going forward?

My memories of Peanut are mixed ones.  The first play that made me remember him was the game against Minnesota in Soldier Field many years back.  The one where he jumped up with Randy Moss in the end zone (who couldn’t be covered by anybody, and could outjump anybody at the time) and took the ball away from him.  I also remember how Peanut just kept it moving when fans lined up for autographs in Bourbonnais, while Tommie Harris signed about 100 of them.  Most of all, he’ll be remembered for the Peanut Punch.  I hope he patented that.  There was nobody was better at this, although many are now trying around the league.  His knack for knocking the ball out of the carrier’s arms was awesome.  And for that Peanut, we thank you…

So where do we go from here?  One silver lining for the Bears is that this injury happened in week 2, not week 15.  Let’s be glad for the timing of this injury, which is another critical component; at least we have time to recover from it.  And recover from it we will… or not.  Either way, the beat goes on.  Injuries happen… the NFL doesn’t stop… the Bears don’t stop… our season is not over.  We keep it moving.  We Bear Down.  Next man up please…