Bears4Ever_34

Not having a stretch the field guy is hurting this offense. Over the long haul, those lack of explosive plays will slowly cripple you. The Bears are getting none of that lately because teams are forcing them to play the dink and dunk game. It's like playing an NBA game without any reliable 3 point shooters. You can score without them, but it's not going to be as easy, and overall, your offense isn't going to be as difficult to defend. They better hope Marquess Wilson can do some of that when he comes back-- that is if their season isn't already over by that point. He can't play until week 10.

The Cutler extension might go down as the biggest mistake of the Phil Emery era. One other that comes to mind right away was taking Shea McClellin over Chandler Jones. I gave up on Cutler two years ago after the Houston Texans game in the rain when he threw a game altering interception late in the 4th quarter. From that moment on, I knew he would always be the same inconsistent player that will cripple you when you can least afford it. All that gobbledygook about him maturing because of his children on and off the field was a farce. The Bears can make the playoffs with Cutler as the quarterback, but the idea that he could carry an offense to the promise land with only a below average defense is no longer applicable. Yet, that's what the Bears are paying him to do.

Should we change this thread to P-A-N-I-C now or wait until after next week?

I think you'll have to wait another year before Trestman gets the axe. Emery loves the guy. It would take a complete collapse, similar to the Houston Texans last year losing 14 straight for him to be fired, IMO. I also think that if you fire Trestman, Cutler almost HAS to go with him. That would be a difficult thing to do considering his price tag. I'm all for going after Harbaugh once he is inevitably fired, though I don't think he has any interest in moving away from the Bay area unless he goes to Michigan. If the Bears are somehow looking for a coach at the end of the year, Kevin Sumlin is a guy that would be high on my radar.

I don't think McCown would have gotten this team to the playoffs, but he'd certainly have come a lot cheaper than Jay.

The offense has regressed since McCown signed with Tampa. I'm not saying but I'm just saying. We were much better with him at quarterback. This team can't eclipse 30 points with the talent they have right now. Embarrassing. This has 5-11 and a coaching change at the end of the season written all over it.

The team is a joke. Couldn't even beat a reeling Panthers team that nobody picked to win this game, who also had no RB's or any of their top defensive players besides Kuechly.

It sure would be nice to have a defense that can sack the quarterback.

Just an absolute implosion. This is what an average football team looks like.

They pay all this money to an offense that wets the bed in the 2nd half.

OMFG! A bLIND SIDE BLOCK? ARE YOU freakin KIDDING ME?

Love how they call facemask and PI on Kyle Fuller when they didn't on the Brandon Marshall pass that got intercepted. This is the worst officiating I have ever seen in a season. Something has to change, because it's gotten worse ever since these rule changes.

And Mel Tucker goes to the prevent defense that never works. About to have a huge negative momentum swing to end the half.. AGAIN.

Dumb throw by Cutler to Bennett, and then a missed FG.. smh

They need to just IR him. He's made out of glass. Sick of him being in and out of the lineup every game because of some injury.

Jay Grossman

When they get rid of the clown college that is the special teams and defense, the Bears will make the playoffs. Until then, no chance.

They'd be scary if Peterson was still playing. Bridgewater looks like the real deal, though.

The 4 games against DET and GB this year will be the most important games of the year. They have to find a way to go 2-2 at minimum. They have two losses already. Going 1-3 or 0-4 pretty much takes them out of the race. They would have to run the table against everybody else, which isn't likely to happen with the way their schedule looks.

I don't see that as a positive, lol. The Bears are 1-10 against Aaron Rodgers in his career as a starter. That is about as automatic as it gets. If you go back even further, they are 13-33 since Brett Favre's first full year as a starter. That is complete and utter domination.

Soldier field sucks, both noise-wise and field wise. There's no home field advantage. I wish they had a dome to hold in all the noise. Rodgers was making checks at the LOS all game long like he was in GB.

The 14 point swing was the difference in the game early in the 1st half. The Bears missed on 7 points after a PI call that gave them a fresh set of downs at the 1 yard line, and then the blunder at the end of the half where they finished with 0 points. It goes back to what I said after game 1. The offense has to play almost flawless football to win some of these games, especially against real offenses with elite QB's. This is the worst offense the Packers have had in years but the Bears defense still couldn't get off the field. It's not fair to ask of this offense to score on every possession, but that's pretty much the way it's going to be against the better QB's.

They are too inconsistent to be a playoff team. I picked them to be 8-8 before the year, but with the injuries they've already suffered, they could be much worse if they don't get back on track next week against Carolina. I would be shocked if they won 10 games.

sigh.....

Is there a more conservative, carefree offense in the league when it comes to pacing during situations when they should be trying like hell to get a play called? Unless they just gave up, I have no idea why they are running the ball on 2nd and long while allowing 25 seconds to run off the play clock between plays.