2009-10 Bears Season: Utler, 'Uther 'Uckers

[SKO]

On the bright side, at least there was entertainment at the game yesterday. The fat slobbering meatball sitting behind me insisted after the first Cardinals touchdown "Just look at de body language on dese mudderfuckers. Dey are already defeated. I been settin in dese seats for 26 years and I never seen cotches as bad as Lovie and Norv Turner. Ditka would never tolerate dis kind of play from dese mudderfuckers."

I hadn't been to a game for a couple years, I'd almost forgotten how amusing the beerfart meatwads in the stands can be.

The sad part is he's half right. Not about the retarded Ditka babble, but that team is just going through the motions. I hate to compare Lovie to Dusty, because he's better than that, but it seems similar right now to the 2005-2006 Cubs. I just don't think there's much accountability in that locker room. Granted, part of that may be the players giving up on Lovie and simply wondering why they should be held accountable for him mindlessly calling a retarded coverage that every offense in the NFL has figured it out.

[CBStew]

How is this for embarrassing?  When the half time show ended someone from Fox Sports came on and apologized to us in the Bay Area, saying that they thought that they had chosen a competitive game to show us but they obviously hadn't so they were ending their coverage of the Bears/Cardinals game and taking us to the Tampa Bay/Greenbay game because it was better.  Guess what?  They were right.

[Philberto]

I'm having a hard time getting on this FIRE LOVEE SMITFH bandwagon. It's not that I don't think they can do better, b/c I know they can. But being on that "FIRE ____________" bandwagon just makes me think Meathead FJH FDB2 670 murph caller. That's a bad thought


Speaking of Murph... While listening to Boers & Bernstein on Friday, they played a clip of Murph for a second and Boers followed up with something to the effect of "If you had a thought or two, then you might still have a job." It made me quite happy.

[Quality Start Machine]

I'd trade Tom Coughlin for Lovie Smith, even up.

[Internet Apex]

I'd trade Tom Coughlin for Lovie Smith, even up.

Yeah. Holy shit that was poor strategism at the end of the Giants/Chargers game yesterday. And that aborted kick? I don't... I'd be hella pissed if I was youse.

[Tony]

More specifically:

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/1997.htm

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/1998.htm

Well, that certainly brightened my morning.

Goddamit.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

How is this for embarrassing?  When the half time show ended someone from Fox Sports came on and apologized to us in the Bay Area, saying that they thought that they had chosen a competitive game to show us but they obviously hadn't so they were ending their coverage of the Bears/Cardinals game and taking us to the Tampa Bay/Greenbay game because it was better.  Guess what?  They were right.

Did you not get to see the end of the Bucs/Packers either?

We got a whole 5 minutes of that one before NFL rules stipulated that we couldn't watch Rogers' game-sealing INT.

[Waco Kid]

On the bright side, at least there was entertainment at the game yesterday. The fat slobbering meatball sitting behind me insisted after the first Cardinals touchdown "Just look at de body language on dese mudderfuckers. Dey are already defeated. I been settin in dese seats for 26 years and I never seen cotches as bad as Lovie and Norv Turner. Ditka would never tolerate dis kind of play from dese mudderfuckers."

I hadn't been to a game for a couple years, I'd almost forgotten how amusing the beerfart meatwads in the stands can be.

The sad part is he's half right. Not about the retarded Ditka babble, but that team is just going through the motions. I hate to compare Lovie to Dusty, because he's better than that, but it seems similar right now to the 2005-2006 Cubs. I just don't think there's much accountability in that locker room. Granted, part of that may be the players giving up on Lovie and simply wondering why they should be held accountable for him mindlessly calling a retarded coverage that every offense in the NFL has figured it out.

There was quite a few times during the game that Helen just threw his hands up in dismay after another Cards third down conversion.

[Kermit, B.]

I hope they fire Lovie and hand the whole thing over to Buffone and O'Bradovich, so they can finally put their cutting edge 1970s era football strategies into practice.  At least it'd be great theater.

STOP YOURSELF!

[CT III]

I hope they fire Lovie and hand the whole thing over to Buffone and O'Bradovich, so they can finally put their cutting edge 1970s era football strategies into practice.  At least it'd be great theater.

STOP YOURSELF!

DICK JAURON!

[Internet Apex]

I really don't think there is a scheme of any sort that would prevent Larry Fitzgerald from beating any three defenders the Bears chose to put on him at any given time. So you should instead, try to stop the run and get in Warner's face to make him fire early or off the mark. If they could have done that about half the time, they'd have given up ~30 points or so and been very much alive in the game. They just don't have the personnel to stop anything. That's partly because Urlacher and Pisa are Audi 5Gs and Tommie is channelling Alonzo Spellman these days. But that secondary has no thread of hope in it and it has been so since late 2006. All the draft picks they've selected to play back there have been useless save for Manning and Hester who are better at doing other things (who knew?).

I tend to give coaches and GMs more rope than most people on this board or anywhere in the city. But I've given Jerry and Lovie plenty of rope and they've hung us all with it. I'm done. I'm now watching Bears games simply to see what it looks like when a real quarterback operates in a Blue/Black uni with orange stripes on the sleeve. It's more a curiosity than a pastime. I'm going to need lots of beer and green. Fuck all.

[fiveouts]

I really don't think there is a scheme of any sort that would prevent Larry Fitzgerald from beating any three defenders the Bears chose to put on him at any given time. So you should instead, try to stop the run and get in Warner's face to make him fire early or off the mark. If they could have done that about half the time, they'd have given up ~30 points or so and been very much alive in the game. They just don't have the personnel to stop anything. That's partly because Urlacher and Pisa are Audi 5Gs and Tommie is channelling Alonzo Spellman these days. But that secondary has no thread of hope in it and it has been so since late 2006.

Tommiie Harris was in for four plays and he got a sack on one of them.  I'm not saying he's been anything better than average, but considering what the defense has looked like when he hasn't played, maybe his season has not quite been the shitfest that every commentator seems to believe it has been. 

And as much as I am reluctantly on the "Fire Lovie" bandwagon (VERY reluctantly, meatheads), the fact that they're starting linebackers who barely missed getting cut at the beginning of the season just kinda sucks. 

[Pre]

And as much as I am reluctantly on the "Fire Lovie" bandwagon (VERY reluctantly, meatheads), the fact that they're starting linebackers who barely missed getting cut at the beginning of the season just kinda sucks. 

Yet they continue to run a defensive scheme requiring an awesome middle linebacker.

[flannj]

I really don't think there is a scheme of any sort that would prevent Larry Fitzgerald from beating any three defenders the Bears chose to put on him at any given time. So you should instead, try to stop the run and get in Warner's face to make him fire early or off the mark. If they could have done that about half the time, they'd have given up ~30 points or so and been very much alive in the game. They just don't have the personnel to stop anything. That's partly because Urlacher and Pisa are Audi 5Gs and Tommie is channelling Alonzo Spellman these days. But that secondary has no thread of hope in it and it has been so since late 2006. All the draft picks they've selected to play back there have been useless save for Manning and Hester who are better at doing other things (who knew?).

I tend to give coaches and GMs more rope than most people on this board or anywhere in the city. But I've given Jerry and Lovie plenty of rope and they've hung us all with it. I'm done. I'm now watching Bears games simply to see what it looks like when a real quarterback operates in a Blue/Black uni with orange stripes on the sleeve. It's more a curiosity than a pastime. I'm going to need lots of beer and green. Fuck all.

Well, I had to look that one up.

[CT III]

I have the feeling this is going to be one of the finest Meatball Fan weeks in Bears history.

Let the angst over the Bears letting Singletary get away commence.