Bear Down Baffa

The Chicago Bears have now lost 4 out of 5, and have entered crisis mode.  The Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) raised our threat level to red, or “Severe,” meaning there’s a severe risk the Bears may be allergic to the Red Zone.  But I don’t think this is a time to point fingers, partly because it’s not nice to point at people, but mostly because no one has enough fingers for all the blame that needs to go around.

We’ve always wondered what it would be like for the Bears to face a Hurricane named Ditka.  Well, we got to see what happens when they face a Tsunami named Singletary.  And it wasn’t pretty.  I can’t think of a singletary (single and solitary combined) reason we should have won this game, but we almost did.  Just like GB (which was also a night game on the road where we threw almost as many passes to the home team as we did our own), we were somehow one good pass away from a win at the buzzer.  But not even another missed field goal could save us.  And even young teams with young coaches are too much for us these days. 

At least the Defense played well.  And I’m convinced that the two games when we allowed 40 points, both of which were without Tommie Harris, were due to the lack of Tommie Harris.  That brings us to a new section we’re calling:

Did Tommie Harris F@$# Us This Week?
And this week, the answer is no.  Tommie played a full game Thursday, arriving at the stadium on time and avoiding ejection.  The Bears D held SF to 10 points and 216 yards, and Harris got his first sack in 13 games.

The Cutler Identity
Jay “I Wish I Had That One Back” Cutler was a pathetic 29 for 52 (55.8%) for 307 yds, 0 TD, 5 INT, and a well-deserved 33.6 QBR.  He threw for over 300 yards, but if you take away the yards on his 5 INT returns (110), he barely threw 200 yards forward.  In his defense though, 3 of his picks were not his fault; one was on Hester, who fell out of the way of a perfectly thrown ball; one was on a referee, who set a pick on Hester after the ball was thrown; and one was on TE Kellen Davis, who let a much smaller defender bump him out of the way for a ball he should have caught.  But 2 INT’s were really, really bad passes that were totally and utterly Jay Pickler’s fault.  And they came at the worst times; the first on SF’s goal line after an 88 yd drive, and the last in SF’s end zone on the last play of the game, either of which would have won the game for us if they went for completions.  He didn’t punch anyone in the face, but he didn’t do much to help.

Doubt-look
Since we and San Fran were the only teams to play Thursday, we only lost ground on one team – San Fran.  We’re now tied with them at 4-5, letting them cut in front of us in the Wild Card race.  And don’t look now, but we’re closer to Detroit (1-7) than we are to the Vikings (7-1).  I certainly didn’t think it would come to this, but all I’m hoping for this season is that we don’t finish behind Detroit.

4-5, and headed for 4-12!

Flint Michigan Mega Bowl, Flint Michigan Mega Bears!

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