Bear Injury Thread

It's been nearly 30 years with very little joy so I hope it's OK if I save my party poppers and balloons for another day.  Injuries can only get you so much relief when the lack of discipline and execution by the uninjured are so poor and even the HC admits it's lacking.

You know, we've had injuries all season long and so have others but players learn to step up from the ranks and play like starters on good teams.  Ours haven't.  So to me this injury thing is wearing as thin as constant whining about being beaten by the refs.  To me that's all it is.

Is it lack of talent or is it lack of execution?  Fox himself says it's the latter so why debate it? 

It's not that I don't believe some of the players they've needed to play don't fall short in the talent department but all 22 don't and many of those players have received kudos for having played quite well at other times or other games.  Case in point.  Crevon LeBlanc has been credited as a great pickup by Pace yet he gave up a 60 yard bomb that resulted in the loss to GB.  Nick Kwiatkoski has gotten some great reviews as well but has also been on the field when we got trampled in the run game.  IMHO both are very talented players who failed to execute well.

So we have inconsistency from game to game as a factor too but then that also is true of the coaching staff as well.  In very few games have the Bears begun the game looking well prepared for the other team and all but one they've either failed to play 60 minutes of football or make the in game adjustments needed to stay in to win a game.  All I'm saying is let's not keep discounting these things which has been very obvious all year and keep playing the injury card OK?

Grizz (lb) even took that time to review those on the IR and assign them a grade as far as the relevance of losing them and once we look at those facts we can easily see that less than half those injuries have been to players who are or have in the past been critical to the teams success.  Some are still here ONLY because they're on the IR and can't be released so it's really not 19 or 20 critical injuries it's half that number or less.  Maybe the most damaging is the loss of Cutler yet he's still the guy many want to dump so how serious do we take even that.

No one has said that the injuries count for nothing but then there are those who want to play them like they're trips Aces when it's more like they're a pair of Jacks.  I think most of us are gonna look at this they way we do and that's that.  I don't expect everyone to see it my way but then it is the way I see it.  When a team is still this lacking in discipline and execution in game 15 of a season IMHO it's not just a lack of talent.  It's also a lack of good coaching and accountability and I've pointed out before that this was an issue with Fox that followed him here from Denver so it really shouldn't be a shock to anyone and it isn't to me.

Yep...just fire the coach and all of a sudden we'll be able to win with a 4th string QB, and shitty secondary and 20 players on IR, who even though they may suck, were good enough for many of them to either be starters or major contributors to this team, so they're level of skill is irrelevant to what they could do on other teams. They started or played major minutes for THIS team, meaning they were better than their replacements, who were then asked to come in and somehow be magically better than the guy in front of them. I'm really having a hard time wrapping my brain around these ridiculous expectations.

It looked quite tasty!