Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 7:53:27 GMT -6
Can Bears fans make Soldier Field a total no-show for the Browns game?
Steve RosenbloomSteve RosenbloomContact ReporterChicago Tribune
Link: www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/ct-spt-bears-john-fox-rosenbloom-20171217-story.html
As far as I can tell following the Bears’ embarrassing, laughable and inexcusable performance in a 20-10 loss to the Lions on Saturday, John Fox remains the head coach, GM Ryan Pace remains hidden from the mess he helped create, chairman George McCaskey remains a McCaskey, and team president Ted Phillips remains an honorary McCaskey.
That’s worse than the Cleveland Browns, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me repeat that slowly. Worse.....Than.....The.....Browns.
You know how George McCaskey loves to tout Bears history and the franchise’s greatness over the decades? Well, here’s a nice piece of history for him:
Next Sunday’s game features the Bears playing their mirror image in the AFC. Call it “The Actual Browns vs. The Virtual Browns Bowl’’ to see whose management wonks get pantsed worse.
Don’t be deceived by the Browns’ 0-14 record compared to the Bears’ bounty of four wins. (Tangent: Should I say “bounty’’ around a Pace team, seeing as how his patina and value connected to the Saints’ Super Bowl champion came only with a dirty, cheating team?) Unlike the Bears, the Browns know they needed to make changes as the death-spiral of a season continued and they did something about it.
The Bears, given the McOwners’ love of history, are probably having that two-game October win streak shadowboxed.
The Browns knew enough to start firing people. They fired Sashi Brown, who might or might not have done anything. The Browns were looking for their GM, same as Bears fans.
Are we supposed to take the Bears’ word for it that Pace exists and remains GM? The former is as much of a coin flip as the latter.
Struck by a spasm of professional progressive thinking, the Browns quickly began their search for some form of leadership to show up and explain and change things. Change things for the better, I should specify.
With Pace, and McCaskey and Phillips and all of them, the Bears are playing hide-and-yeesh.
The Browns could shovel the same lame, useless garbage the Bears offer about their historic names. Paul Brown, meet George Halas. Jim Brown, meet Walter Payton.
But here’s another truth: Jim Haslam and the three bad coaches he has hired the last five seasons, meet McCaskey and the two bad coaches he has hired the last five seasons with a third to be named later.
And Hue Jackson and his 1-28 record the last two seasons, meet John Fox and his 7-23 record over the same span.
Pace, in one of his few historic moments of showing up to explain things, said the Bears traded up from the third pick in the draft to the second to get Mitch Trubisky and never intended to be faced with the same draft position again.
They’re being faced with the same draft position again.
Everyone can thank Fox’s coaching and Pace’s cobbling together of personnel – well, wait, we believe it’s Pace’s cobbling together of personnel, but given his apparent refusal to face the public it might be Alexa or Siri calling names.
The Bears hate you, Bears fans. That can be the only answer for Fox’s continued presence and Pace’s continued invisibility.
So then, let me suggest this, Bears fans: Given the McOwners’ love of history, bestow upon them a chance to experience an NFL record for no-shows against the Browns on Christmas Eve day. I don’t know what the record is, but if nobody shows up, then we’ll know what the record is.
In the holiday spirit, you can give yourself a present you’ll feel great about and you’ll give the Bears and the McOwners what they deserve.
Steve RosenbloomSteve RosenbloomContact ReporterChicago Tribune
Link: www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/ct-spt-bears-john-fox-rosenbloom-20171217-story.html
As far as I can tell following the Bears’ embarrassing, laughable and inexcusable performance in a 20-10 loss to the Lions on Saturday, John Fox remains the head coach, GM Ryan Pace remains hidden from the mess he helped create, chairman George McCaskey remains a McCaskey, and team president Ted Phillips remains an honorary McCaskey.
That’s worse than the Cleveland Browns, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me repeat that slowly. Worse.....Than.....The.....Browns.
You know how George McCaskey loves to tout Bears history and the franchise’s greatness over the decades? Well, here’s a nice piece of history for him:
Next Sunday’s game features the Bears playing their mirror image in the AFC. Call it “The Actual Browns vs. The Virtual Browns Bowl’’ to see whose management wonks get pantsed worse.
Don’t be deceived by the Browns’ 0-14 record compared to the Bears’ bounty of four wins. (Tangent: Should I say “bounty’’ around a Pace team, seeing as how his patina and value connected to the Saints’ Super Bowl champion came only with a dirty, cheating team?) Unlike the Bears, the Browns know they needed to make changes as the death-spiral of a season continued and they did something about it.
The Bears, given the McOwners’ love of history, are probably having that two-game October win streak shadowboxed.
The Browns knew enough to start firing people. They fired Sashi Brown, who might or might not have done anything. The Browns were looking for their GM, same as Bears fans.
Are we supposed to take the Bears’ word for it that Pace exists and remains GM? The former is as much of a coin flip as the latter.
Struck by a spasm of professional progressive thinking, the Browns quickly began their search for some form of leadership to show up and explain and change things. Change things for the better, I should specify.
With Pace, and McCaskey and Phillips and all of them, the Bears are playing hide-and-yeesh.
The Browns could shovel the same lame, useless garbage the Bears offer about their historic names. Paul Brown, meet George Halas. Jim Brown, meet Walter Payton.
But here’s another truth: Jim Haslam and the three bad coaches he has hired the last five seasons, meet McCaskey and the two bad coaches he has hired the last five seasons with a third to be named later.
And Hue Jackson and his 1-28 record the last two seasons, meet John Fox and his 7-23 record over the same span.
Pace, in one of his few historic moments of showing up to explain things, said the Bears traded up from the third pick in the draft to the second to get Mitch Trubisky and never intended to be faced with the same draft position again.
They’re being faced with the same draft position again.
Everyone can thank Fox’s coaching and Pace’s cobbling together of personnel – well, wait, we believe it’s Pace’s cobbling together of personnel, but given his apparent refusal to face the public it might be Alexa or Siri calling names.
The Bears hate you, Bears fans. That can be the only answer for Fox’s continued presence and Pace’s continued invisibility.
So then, let me suggest this, Bears fans: Given the McOwners’ love of history, bestow upon them a chance to experience an NFL record for no-shows against the Browns on Christmas Eve day. I don’t know what the record is, but if nobody shows up, then we’ll know what the record is.
In the holiday spirit, you can give yourself a present you’ll feel great about and you’ll give the Bears and the McOwners what they deserve.
