Bears Suck!
by Godfrey Logan
Sep 24 2008
Godfrey talks about the Bears and their short comings.

Before the NFL preseason started a friend of mine made the prediction the Bears record for the 2008-09 season would be 6-10. I thought it ridiculous as the Bears had done what the Green Bay Packers did the year before, finish up by finishing the season on a wining note though missing the playoffs. With a final record for the 2007-08 season of 7-9 being the only team to beat the Packers twice last year.

The defense looked like they would be prominent this season I was sure the Bears would start the season as well as they'd finished but when preseason started the Bears defense looked terrible but the offense looked decent and my hope that they would go 8-8 had me believeing they would be more like 4-12. Well now that we're in week three and having blown two games in which they had a lead that prediction looks like it might come to fruition. There is no such thing as moral victories in sports either you win or you lose.

As the Bears have shown they can play well in the first half of games and then fall asleep when they have the lead. That is the case on both offense and defense. The defense helps the offense to a lead which has been 14 points in the games against Carolina on the road and in their home opener at Soldiers Field against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The defense then expects the offense to take over and chew up some time with a huge time of posession and they haven't been able to do that. As my friend had pointed out the Bears have an aging offnsive line a rookie runningback and a quarterback who is supposed to manage the game more than make plays to win it. He forgot an offensive coordinator in Ron Turner who has no idea how to run an NFL offense.

A guy who would pass on running downs and run on passing downs. A ton of boos rained down on Soldier's Field when the Bears choked away the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers allowing a former quarterback to run the two minute offense marching them down the field for a game tying score not to mention getting called for stupid penalties that ended up costing them the game.

Bears players drafted in the past three seasons have barely seen the field and have been cut from the team for a number of reasons like Tank Johnson who after having his house raided for possessing guns without permits and then watching his friend get murdered in a Chicago area night club. From the 2005 draft class the Bears have just one player on the roster remaining, Quarterback Kyle Orton. Most of the Bears players who we're in the Super bowl in 2006 including Tank Johnson are either with other teams out of football, Cedric Benson, Mark Bradley, or are on the Bench, Rex Grossman.

While no one is calling for Head Coach Lovie Smith to be fired fans want to see a team that can hold onto the ball and can hold a lead or we're in for another long season with the tough Philadelphia Eagles coming up on Sunday night.

Posted on Sep 24 2008 on Biased Sports