I'm not talking about the W/L record. Emotionally is this the worst season you have endured as a Bears fan? I'm just curious. I've been reflecting back to the other bad seasons (including the 1-win 1969 season). Personally, for me, this has been the worst. It just feels that way.
Trestman's 2nd season was pretty bad too. Getting curb stomped by 50+ points was humiliating. But honestly it didn't feel as bad to me personally as this season feels. I had such high hopes for this team. It is just a crushingly painful and sad year.
This season hasn't bothered me at all. I've taken it for what it is. I knew they were most likely not going to be a playoff team so my expectations were low. I get much more upset emotionally when I have higher expectations. The year the Bears lost to the Packers in the final regular season game which allowed the Packers to be a wild card team and then they lost to them again in the playoffs, that may have been the worst for me.
Nope...Trestmans second year may have been the worst for me. Hard to remember the others...I'm sure there were some in Jaurons time as coach here...or during Wanny's time here. That second Trestman season though...that was downright embarrassing. It doesn't get worse than getting 50 plus hung on you two weeks in a row and watching a team play with zero fight. That was emotionally tough to watch. I'm surprisingly ok, I don't like only having 3 wins...but it looks and feels a hell of a lot better than the 5 wins we got under Trestman.
Post by mrdynamite32 on Dec 22, 2016 10:08:25 GMT -6
Trestman's second year was the worst for me...far worse than anything I've seen during the Dave Wannstedt/Dick Jauron era. Giving up that first 50 point curbstomping was bad enough, but giving up another 50 point curbstomping despite having two weeks to prepare for it made me sick to my stomach.
As far as this season goes, it's more or less what I expected.
Post by dachuckster on Dec 22, 2016 10:47:42 GMT -6
I've been a Bear fan for a long time. In recent memory the Trestman era was just fugly. But there have been several almost as bad and a couple that were worse.
Jim Dooley's second year in 1969 was brutal (1-13).
He was followed shortly thereafter by Abe Gibron who never won more than 4 games in any of his three seasons as HC. This was during the Bobby Douglas era at QB.
I know a lot of fans think that Wannstedt was one of the most clueless coaches in our history but Gibron would give Wanny or even Trestman a run for that title.
Unlike many others, I never really felt good about this year. In fact as I had posted on the "other" board, this is the first season that I can ever remember that I really had no excitement when the season started.
I rate Gibron as the worst Bears coach ever, followed by Trestman as 2nd worst. For me, trestmans' 2nd year was the absolute worst. 2 50 point buttkickings in row? the laziness and lack of effort. the stupid game management and play calling. running meetings from the back of the room? really? That was just an all-out cluster f-bomb of a year. way worse than the Wanny or Jarhead years.
I can't figure out where to rank Foxy in Bears coaching history. Certainly above trestman, but possibly below Wanny/Jarhead? That's about where I'm at now with him.
But no, this is not the worst, most emotional year.
All of you guys are handling this better than me. Maybe I just expected too much this year. I really thought we'd take another step in the right direction and build on last year. To be fair, I always thought it would take 3 rebuilding years to see a significant change (like playoff team). But I just didn't see this outcome. It hit me like a train. Especially the injuries to key players. I understand injuries are a part of NLF life. I accept that. I just haven't seen this level of injuries before.
The responses here surprised me in a good way. Most are doing better than I thought. I just feel like crap this year.
Post by weneedmorelinemen on Dec 22, 2016 13:29:24 GMT -6
This is a way better year that 2014, and 2004 I think was worse as well. I'm kind of enjoying the games, and when they do enough to almost win, I just think that means a better draft pick.
2014 was supposed to be a contender playoff year. 2016 Bears were projecTed to bottom 5 status and have just continued to dig.