‘Bad mistake by me’: Inexperience shows in Bears’ loss to Co

Some of it is that but it's also oversimplifying the problems on both sides of the ball.  The penalties on Long, Massie, and Paulsen that halted drives short of the end zone or cost us precious time in catch up mode were not made by rookies.  In fact both Massie and Paulsen seem to be quite good at making them negating the idea that experienced vets are any better than raw rookies and possibly worse because they have no excuse and no upside.

We also can't blame a vet backup QB of 47 games failing to read a defense well and ignore his first read who was wide open for a winning TD on rookie mistakes.  Nor can we blame a vet PK for missing twice on the rookies when that miss made a huge difference in our strategy on that last drive.  Without that miss a FG ties the game and we don't have to go for six on 4th down.  Of course that assumes Barth wouldn't have missed yet another FG of 40 yards plus.

I'm not ranting.  I'm actually very calm now because I feel like I have far better answers than any we've been given at least by Fox.  He has no plan period or at least not one that could be described as anything different than his injury reports. So I'm just calling it John Fox's "Day by Day Guide to Winning Football".  That's all it really is you know.  The guy doesn't even have the balls to make a definitive statement regarding his decision on who plays QB once Cutler is healthy.  This is a guy with his back against the wall who knows it and won't be pinned down to anything.  Only losers coach like that sorry.

So yeah, it's gonna be painful and it will stay that way until Fox is gone.  An 8-8 season would have shown little progress but a season that's beginning to look like half that many wins is being hopeful is a severe regression.  The 8-8 means you get one more shot but a 4-12 should get you fired.  If it doesn't once again it shows a lack of balls on the part of Bears management and ownership to swallow a bitter pill and begin again to start delivering on their promises.  I've had enough of this rebuilding that isn't.

I see 1-7 at the bye as a very real possibility.  What do you see?

I dunno. Feels like they are having an off season right now.

I prefer the Bears don't follow that method.