madlithuanian

I blame. Everyone. Top to bottom. Barring a handful of players and one coach in Toub.

re - Beson - Who was respnsible for putting a coaching staff in order? JA! re- Jones - Knowing when to retain a guy is almost as important as bringing him in. Whatever handful of positives the guy has cannot be outweighed by the freighter-load of negatives.

You may be right...

Good points. It is similar to Carr. or Bulger... Lot's of guys that continue to get the snot ko'ed out of them fase away... warner resurrected himself after spending a couple years in NY. It saddens me. What looked so promising will probably end up being squandered by management and coaching.

Agreed. Sadly, it pretty much sums it all up.

Yeah, we are ruining Cutler's best years. But, he knew what he signed up for. It's not like we had a good history in that area...

Seriously. Is there any excuse for this at all? We know that Martz won't have it. Smith is OK'ing it, so he also agrees by assosciation. This is seriously got to be the dumbest thing in any pro sports ever. Why not just say we won't line up any running backs...or play without Urlacher. You know, something that could be anvantage. We're so freakin' great that we don't need all the ehelp we can get...we can just play to wonderfully perfect that we don't even need to line up a QB. It just pains me. I COULD CALL A FREAKING AUDIBLE IN FREAKING HIGH SCHOOL MAN!!!! If the line-up is pass, I'm going to call a freaking draw or something!!! Even Corky from "Life Goes On" could call those! To say Jay can't do it is ridiculous!!!! This is just a pure one item flaw that really exposes the whole idiocy of this franchise. We are playing checkers while others play chess. Hell, I think we may only playing tic-tac-toe!

A couple other comments... 1. Green Bay didn't play that well. Other than Finley, they were held. They also had their fair share of penalties and turnovers. Had we not decided to play $hittier than them, this could have been won. But, make no mistake...they are a significantly better team. The eye test says it. 2. The D is disappointing. And it pretty much is the Smith system... We simply cannot gererate a constant attack from teh front 4, and that allows pretty much any team enough time to nit-pick us all the way down the field. And the fact that this club has had trouble for a decade covering tight ends, any decent TE can then score in the red zone with relative ease on us. I fear Olsen next week. Big time.

Great comments '74... This is going to be a long season I think.

Bingo!!! I think it's about time to clean house. Enough of this "close is good enough" regime for me... I want an attempt at greatness. We need fresh blood. I truly hope they are all gone. But I think only Martz will be. Turner took the heat last chance we had to clean house. Here we are again. Martz will be let go and the new OC will be given 2 years for Smith to finish out his contract. We'll probably have a good season in there somewhere despite our flaws. Smith will be extended again. Expect more of the same. It's Groundhog Day.

1. He looked out of position a lot from satching on tv 2. Williams was not blocking well at all on runs pulling as you said... Missed blocking assignments, poor play selection and single back sets I think were at fault. 3. Cutler was erratic. But it happened mostly after a few key dropped balls. I think his confidence got beat down... It's hard to soar like an eagle when you play with a bunch of turkeys. But he was certainly to blame. 4. He had more time. And virtuallynone of his WR's got open with that extra time. When they did, they made some nice drops on top of that. There obviously were some catches. But the whole O was just not good and very mistake prone. Way yo step up after a big loss for a big game Bears.

Seems like deja vu, no?

I would be. Thei farnchise is far to reactionary than proactive. I just expect him to not be re-upped at season's end. Another stellar hiring by this club...

agreed. better than anything we currently have. i have hope for sanz in the future. but we need help now.

but it would have covered the spread! makes ya think!

excactly... I don't fault them for pulling it out. I fault them for the hold.

Thanks. That was the impression I got during the game. What a shame. It was a shrewd call by Toub.

I never saw a replay that showed it, and Aikman questioned it without Fox ever showing it. Can anyone confirm?

Exactly my comments when we let Olsen go...

Every run is up the freakin middle. Every time it is stuffed. Can we please go to the outside as so many of us maybe been saying?

No game is a gimme with our offensive offense. CAR is proving to be a team that will play you tough. Detroit is the darling of the season and will be very tough. Tampa is proving to be a tough team. lastly, Minny has to beat someone int eh grand scheme...and those wins tend to happen in divisional games. I am worried for all of those games. 2-2 could be the record. But 3-4 is pretty crummy in the division and conference we're in.

It does. Get off the ledge and start e-mailing the Bears for change.

It's not so much of a waste of money for Williams. We're not paying a lot. It's a waste of Cutler.

...squandered again. And we were forced to watch that OT instead of our game...

You made your post sound like only one move under JA's regime was off... My list says that there were more.