National Media Jumping Up On Chicago Bears Bandwagon...

I think you nailed it there ^^^^^

Hey, yesterday I watched Mark Potash of the Sun Times on a CHGO podcast do a great job explaining why Chicago Bears fans (like us) struggle with truly believing that "this" team is finally going to be the one that breaks the decades of disappointments.  Listening to him talk, it seemed right-on to me.  I'm paraphrasing it and probably butchering his comments (I'll add the poscast link below), but basically we are so conditioned for unexpected failures by this franchise that it is so very very difficult to believe in this present regime.  There is a history here that is heartbreaking (literally heartbreaking) that just when we believe in the Bears they find a way to disappoint us.  

He talks about this history.  Even the 1985 Bears failed to sustain winning as they should have (should have been much more successful with that roster... but they just underperformed under Ditka).  LOL, but I digress.

I think this guy (Potash) hit on it... we look at all of the great things Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus have done here in a short span of time, and it looks mighty good for 2024 and beyond.  But we can't believe in this team due to the influence past regimes' failures have had on us.  We reason in our heads that this is illogical to think Poles/Eberflus are responsible for failures going back 30, 40 or 50 years - but we keep thinking they are the same as these past bimbos.  Unfair?  Yes.  But maybe it it just how we are wired now after decades of disappointments here.  Anyway, I liked listening to him explain this from a fan's perspective (he is a Bears fan from the time he was a young boy).  He "gets it" as far as how we feel about this present team.

Bears have competition right in the North and the rest of the NFL.  It is easy to get myopic and forget that other teams are adding good players to their rosters. As I said before, it’s not enough to get better. You have to get better than everybody to have good chance to win a Super Bowl.  Bears were very lucky to get #1 two years in a row plus an idiot owner (Panthers) eager to get fleeced. That will allow Bears to peak over next 2-4 years, but this is our Super Bowl window.

You can’t get better every year forever.  In 100+ years NFL history it has never happened.  I wonder what is the NFL record for improving W-L record for “x” consecutive years.  You have to cash in when you peak. That’s been the history.

So far so good.  I am enjoying the journey here.  If it all falls apart then I'll be in the depths of despair, again 

I'm just not wanting to try and overthink what might, or might not happen down the road.  Wasted energy at this point.