Post by JABF on Dec 17, 2017 17:40:48 GMT -6
If this team was an animal, you'd euthanize it to put it out of it's pain and misery.
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End can't come soon enough for hapless Bears
Dan Wiederer
Chicago Tribune
This starts with a question about an onside kick, the one asked of Bears coach John Fox on Saturday night at Ford Field. Not because the moment in question was the defining sequence of the Bears’ 20-10 loss to the Lions. Far from it. But it was another head-scratching moment nonetheless. One of many. From yet another revealing Bears defeat.
With 2 minutes, 32 seconds to play Saturday, the Bears had pulled within 10 points on a 9-yard Benny Cunningham touchdown grab. But rather than try a traditional onside kick in an effort to get the ball back right away, the Bears tried a peculiar little pooch kickoff that Golden Tate fielded easily on a bounce. No Bear was within 5 yards of him.
What was it about that particular strategy that felt attractive?
“It’s field position,” Fox clarified. “There was time enough left in the game. … Typically most people will kick it deep early so that you have field position.”
Field position? Really?
With less than three minutes left? With an offensively-challenged team needing two scores to tie?
After three stops, three timeouts and a punt, the Bears did get the ball back 25 seconds later. But at their own 6-yard line. (Hard to imagine an onside attempt would have left them with worse field position.)
And, well … whatever. Same ol’, same ol’.
This season needs to end. It just does. There’s so little left to say.
Sure, the Bears have officially clinched last place in the NFC North. But that’s old news. It’s where they’ve been for four consecutive seasons. In the journalism business, this is what’s referred to as “Dog bites man.”
It again could be emphasized that Fox’s days at Halas Hall are numbered — now inside of two weeks. But with the coach’s 13-33 record and an abysmal 3-14 mark in division games, there shouldn’t be much gray area in that evaluation to still sift through anyway.
It’d be easy point out that the Bears again have 10 losses. For the fourth consecutive season. And that they’ve now lost at least 10 games 10 times in the past quarter-century, doubling their number of playoff appearances in that time. But that’d be like dumping a cup of flour on a franchise that has become all too accustomed to being tarred and feathered by the public. And it’s difficult to say how much the ineptitude bothers the head honchos at Halas Hall
End can't come soon enough for hapless Bears
Dan Wiederer
Chicago Tribune
This starts with a question about an onside kick, the one asked of Bears coach John Fox on Saturday night at Ford Field. Not because the moment in question was the defining sequence of the Bears’ 20-10 loss to the Lions. Far from it. But it was another head-scratching moment nonetheless. One of many. From yet another revealing Bears defeat.
With 2 minutes, 32 seconds to play Saturday, the Bears had pulled within 10 points on a 9-yard Benny Cunningham touchdown grab. But rather than try a traditional onside kick in an effort to get the ball back right away, the Bears tried a peculiar little pooch kickoff that Golden Tate fielded easily on a bounce. No Bear was within 5 yards of him.
What was it about that particular strategy that felt attractive?
“It’s field position,” Fox clarified. “There was time enough left in the game. … Typically most people will kick it deep early so that you have field position.”
Field position? Really?
With less than three minutes left? With an offensively-challenged team needing two scores to tie?
After three stops, three timeouts and a punt, the Bears did get the ball back 25 seconds later. But at their own 6-yard line. (Hard to imagine an onside attempt would have left them with worse field position.)
And, well … whatever. Same ol’, same ol’.
This season needs to end. It just does. There’s so little left to say.
Sure, the Bears have officially clinched last place in the NFC North. But that’s old news. It’s where they’ve been for four consecutive seasons. In the journalism business, this is what’s referred to as “Dog bites man.”
It again could be emphasized that Fox’s days at Halas Hall are numbered — now inside of two weeks. But with the coach’s 13-33 record and an abysmal 3-14 mark in division games, there shouldn’t be much gray area in that evaluation to still sift through anyway.
It’d be easy point out that the Bears again have 10 losses. For the fourth consecutive season. And that they’ve now lost at least 10 games 10 times in the past quarter-century, doubling their number of playoff appearances in that time. But that’d be like dumping a cup of flour on a franchise that has become all too accustomed to being tarred and feathered by the public. And it’s difficult to say how much the ineptitude bothers the head honchos at Halas Hall
