Crappy Colts beat Bears - who gets the deflated ball?

To me, the rebuilding began with the hiring of Ryan Pace.  The other 90+ years of Bears history is just that.  History.  All that matters to me now is that the Bears dig out of this very deep hole they are in talent-wise.  We have a start, but it's not finished.  It takes a level of talent to win consistently.  We don't have that.  Not yet.

In one sense, Pace is like our young team.  He is learning his craft, just like all these young people are.  The young players will make some mistakes.  That's just part of the growing pains.  Pace is also going to make mistakes.  And he has.  But my hope is that most of these youngsters will learn and grow into solid players.  Meredith hurt the team today, but he also showed a lot of promise.  A knee-jerk reaction would be to give up on him and cut him from the team tomorrow.  That would be pretty stupid and of course it's not going to happen.  They will work with the kid and hopefully he will learn to be better.  Same with Pace.  He doesn't strike me as a stupid man.  In fact he strikes me as a bright young man who will grow to be a solid GM for us.  But it won't happen without some mistakes along the way.

People can learn, change and grow to be better.  Even older people.  I tell my kids that wise people continue to learn and get better throughout their entire life.  People want to define John Fox by his past, or write him off as being an old coach that can't be successful here.  That may not be accurate regarding his tenure here in Chicago.  Maybe he will be a good coach here.  Maybe not.  I'm not going to give up on him yet.

I appreciate your comment from Soul about how good teams make more good plays than bad plays.  But we are not a good team.  Not yet anyway.  When our talent is better than what we now have, I believe we will make more good plays.  But right now we are suffering the pain of not being a good team.  And you don't become a good team overnight.  The rebuild began under Ryan Pace.  We are 5 games into his 2nd season.  That's too early for me to definitively judge him or Fox.  That's my 2-cents worth anyway.