Bear fans could have taken advantage of great weather by leaving at halftime
The score was close, 77-67, that's degrees, with Phoenix beating Chicago for the temperature today. But for a November day, we'll take it every time. A moral victory.
As for the Bears, let the record show that I said on 670 the Score yesterday that the season ended last week when the Bears couldn't score in the red zone at the end against a Cleveland team that would wind up dumping its general manager in the middle of the season. But given the herd mentality of the local media, you still saw stories this week about how after today's game those next four were going to be critical.
Actually, it was the last two games that had already determined the season. But like Gatsby, the media don't realize that the future is already behind them.
Hey, Cardinals, you want to come back to Chicago? We could use a team. Kurt Warner, the former stock boy, was dropping cans of corn into his receivers' hands. To think that the Bears were heartened when Anquan Boldin was a game time scratch because his coach felt the field was too soft for Boldin's tender ankle. And, yes, receivers were slipping a bit, but somehow Warner made it the Greatest Show on Surf.
Is this the most disappointing Bears team ever? There were Super Bowl thoughts when Jay Cutler was signed. There's nothing wrong with Cutler. In fact, Ron Turner should breathe easier, too. There's not much wrong with his offense. Lovie should fire himself first. Wonder if Lovie will grimace this week when Jeff Joniak dares to call this game "ugly" to his face.
By the half, the Cardinals didn't need Boldin. They didn't even need Larry Fitzgerald, who'd caught two Td passes. The field wasn't soft enough. The Bears needed to build a moat in front of the endzone. And the Cardinals, who couldn't run this year, ran.
Another first half blowout loss for the Bears. Another bow out for Tommie Harris. Let's see, last year he was suspended. This year he served a de facto suspension by being benched for a game. Today he benched himself on the fourth play when he punched a guy. He should have been forced to walk home in his uniform. Just to get a sweat in it.
Poor Peanut Tillman. He went to the lockerroom with an injury before the end of the half, but he was undressed way before that.
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman should have given way to Sam Rosen and Brian Baldinger at halftime.
Or maybe Buck could have soaked in the sun on an un-November day and talked about the baseball Cardinals having hired Mark McGwire as their hitting coach. Anything but football. Anything but seeing Devin Hester losing 10 yards on a reverse and Steve Breaston gaining 25 yards on one.
You can't imagine the McCaskeys dumping Lovie with $10 million left on his contract after this year. But on a day on which the ivy could thrive in Wrigley Field, you could wish that Tom Ricketts would make a real power grab and clean house at Soldier Field, too.
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CanadianBear said:
Finally the end of the beginning and hopefully we can get on to the beginning of the end. Lovie and the D stunk the place out again today. Something dramatic has to happen here and now.
Against any team with a decent O line and QB we have been repeatedly picked apart yet the blogs are full of Cutler and Olsen and Hester comments. It's time for all real Bears fans to realize our beloved D is done like dinner. The same goes for the O line. We don't need a bye week off to prepare! We need a rebuild. But alas it could be a long time coming as we have no draft picks until the 3rd round this year!!!
It looks like a long cold winter my friends as the things that need to be done can't be done with all the salary and contract hangovers discussed above. This bears fan will hibernate dreaming for better days and better plays ahead.
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