Last Sunday the Bears blocked a field goal attempt at the end of the first half. The ball was quickly picked up by the Bears’ Marcus Cooper Senior who raced down the field. It was a guaranteed touchdown. But right before the end zone, Cooper slowed down to do a little showboating to the home crowd. This year the NFL has made a rule not to flag a player celebrating after scoring a touchdown. The words after you score the touchdown. As Cooper was strutting his stuff a Pittsburgh player caught up to him and knocked the ball out of his hands. Guaranteed 6 points taken off the board for the Bears against a tough opponent, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The kicker knocked the ball out of the end zone. This gave the Bears some life at the one yard line to punch it in. False start penalty backs up the Bears and they have to settle for a field goal. Instead of 6 guaranteed points with most likely an extra point to make it seven, the Bears settle for 3.

The Steelers did come back in this contest to tie the game at 17 to 17. I wish I could have been in the mind of Marcus Cooper to see what he was thinking. Was he scared to be cut? He did not get benched. Did he get yelled at for making a bone head move like he did He played the rest of the game because actually he probably is the best corner back they have. Plus after Mr. Slick fumbled the ball, many Bears gave his stunt a high five and pat on the back. He probably felt no shame as he went on and played the second half.

Does anybody show these players the Leon Lett play back in the 90’s? Cowboys just destroying the poor Bills then to see Leon Lett another jack ass a bigger one than Cooper slowing down holding the ball out like a loaf of bread strutting his stuff. Then Don Beebe knocked the ball out of his hand before he got it over the pay dirt. Even though the Cowboys killed the Bills that game, a hustling Don Beebe never gave up on the play even down by a ton. Don Beebe is a football player. Leon Lett and Marcus Cooper should take their act to the circus. I will even say the Pittsburgh Steeler who knocked the ball out of Cooper’s hand deserves some credit for not giving up. Even the punter for Pittsburgh for knocking the ball out of the end zone so nobody from the Bears could land on the ball and still get the touch down.

If Cooper were on the Patriots he would have been cut at half time. His bags would have been packed and sitting on the curb. If the Patriots were on the road they would have probably given Cooper a bus ticket to get himself home from the road game. Since the Bears are not deep when it comes down to the roster, they have to keep him. They have to build up his confidence and coddle him so he can still play corner back the rest of the game and the remainder of the season. Since we do not draft well at many positions, we will probably have to put up with goof balls like Cooper until they are positive they have someone to replace him. Maybe when he’s about to retire we can finally give him his walking papers.

What happened to players like Walter Payton? All business all the time. He wanted to get in the end zone and win the game for the team. When he did get in the end zone he acted like he has been there before and will be there many more times as he handed the ball to the ref. This is not the first time Cooper has tight roped the end zone line strutting his stuff. He has done it as an Arizona Cardinal. Maybe that’s why he’s now a Bear. When is Bears management going to put a stop to these players? A few years ago Lamar Houston is dancing after he sacked Brady late in the game when the Bears were down by a ton of points. Then the stupid idiot hurts himself on the grand finally of the sack dance and boom he’s out for the rest of the year. The Bears need to build a culture that this behavior should not be tolerated. Draft and sign football players, not circus acts. Since the Bears’ management and your teammates won’t say anything, to Marcus Cooper Senior, I will let Red Foreman sum it up to you with his words.

I feel like the little old lady in the old Wendy’s commercial saying “Wheres the beef, the beef?” when it comes down to the Bears receiving core.

We have all bun no hands. Last year we saw Josh Bellamy, wide open, drop a ball against the Titans in the end zone from Barkley. Which cost the Bears a win by the way. In week one of the 2017 season opener the same scenario occurred. Bears are driving and Mike Glennon makes a great throw and rock hands drops the ball. Maybe they keep Bellamy around for special teams as that might be his specialty. Why is he even in the line up at the end of the game? Many reasons.

You draft a quarterback as your first pick in the draft, a definite position you want to upgrade. However you got hosed by the 49ers in giving up draft picks just to move up one position to get Mitch Tribisky when you could of had him if you stayed put at number three. Extra picks could of went for a position called the wide receiver. Before that you overpaid for quarterback on the free agent market in Mike Glennon. Love you are trying to upgrade your quarterback position that has killed the franchise forever but it’s like getting a sports car and parking outside on the street instead of in a garage. These guys need someone to throw to instead of Rock hands in crucial parts of the game.

Time to cut the ties with Kevin White. How many times will you keep hoping that he stays healthy enough to play more than a few games a year? I know he is a first round draft pick but the man should have the word fragile stamped on his uniform. Handle with care as the white wine flute is tackled and has cracked his stem and is out for the year again. He has never showed me anything. He catches the ball and is immediately tackled. No yards after the catch. “You are the weakest link good bye…”

Your number one receiver gets hurt in Cam Meridith and you do not do anything. LA Rams traded for Sammy Watkins in the preseason. Buffalo was able to get Matthews from Philadelphia. Pick up a phone. Text another GM. I think if I was another team I would gladly wheel and deal with Bears as they probably would give the cow away for some beans so that might not be the best thing. The Bears rely on the dollar bin. Cruz did not work out. Kendall Wright is a nice pick up. But he is not a number one receiver. You cut Tanner Gentry and were very lucky no other team picked him up. Tanner would of caught the ball instead of Bellamy.

When the Bears made the trade for Jay Cutler it was the same situation. It took a few seasons to surround the guy with some weapons. Now with Mike Glennon behind the center everything he does is under the microscope because Mitch is waiting in the wings. Glennon’s first start in years and first start with the Bears kind of reminded me of a Kyle Orton performance. He made no mistakes. He relied on the running game with a short passing game to move the chains. He had an 86.8 QB rating in which he was 26-40 for 213 yards and one touchdown. However people are focusing on his pocket presence which he did take some sacks. Would Mitch have been better? He does have the ability to use his legs and get out of trouble and also can throw on the run. If the Bears had won this game against the Atlanta Falcons, who almost were the Super bowl champions last season, would the conversation have been different about Mike Glennon? Maybe only for a week as everyone is dissecting his game. They are looking for anything as they slice him open like a frog in the biology lab. Because Mitch is the future. Shame on the Bears for not getting these quarterbacks proper weapons. Glennon’s performance was not exciting off the chart like. But it was better than the opponent running for a winning touchdown off a stupid pass to cost you the game. If the Bears only had a brain. Time for the Tin Man to take over the operations instead of the scarecrows we have been used to all these years. No wonder they are the franchise in Chicago that have been on the longest streak from winning a title.

Bears seem to get a real quarterback in the amount of time it takes Haley’s comet to show itself in the skies. That’s every 17 years so that can’t be right. Would the eclipse be a better measuring stick? Probably not because Sid Luckman played in the 40’s. Jim McMahon helped win Chicago’s only Superbowl in the 80’s. You ever notice some people go through cars like underwear? While some people have had two cars in the same period of time that still look brand new like they were just driven off the show room floor. Since Jim McMahon, the Bears have had a hard time filling his shoes, while Green Bay has had the position behind the center cemented. Look at all the clunkers and total wrecks the Bears had to tow or send outright to the junk yard. All while Green Bay is driving a premo sports car that has just been waxed for another division title.

Since Jim McMahon was traded to the San Diego Chargers, the Chicago Bears have had a list of players behind center longer than Santa Clause’s naughty and nice list. Jim McMahon was the last Bears quarterback to make it to the pro bowl. Since 1989 we had some good quarterbacks that had some pretty good years. I loved Eric Kramer, Kyle Orton and Jim Miller. We even made it to the playoffs a few times.

We even made the Super Bowl with good Rex and bad Rex in the same year. How we missed Lovie Smith saying week after week that Rex Grossman is still our quarterback. It was like that toy you pull the string and the cow says moo. They had all the farm animals on this toy with each saying what the animal says.  Lovie’s string would be “Rex is still our quarterback.”

But all the garbage we had to sit and watch week after week. Year after year. From Cade McNown stealing people’s handicap placards. Then that hack Jonathan Quinn who was collecting pay checks for years until he finally got on the field. He was like that guy from Unnecessary Roughness telling the ref to blow the whistle as defenders were chasing him. The great Rick Mirer in which we had a cow and then traded it away for some beans. Peter Tom Willis and that super smart guy Craig Krenzel who’s probably finding cures right now for cancer. Then washed up quarterbacks like Kordell Stewart, Chris Chandler and even David Krieg. Oh we had them all. While this was going on, Green Bay went from the Magic Man, Don Majkowski, to Brett Farve, the Aaron Rogers during that time period. Just makes you sick to the stomach thinking about it. We also did have Henry Burris which will not make me feel any better. Throughout the hard times of the Cutler experiment that continued to go wrong, finally a quarterback has emerged from North Carolina, Mitch Trubisky. It’s where the Chicago legend Michael Jordan came from.

Are we really going through with this Mike Glennon experiment? We paid big money for Glennon as we did not save big money at Menards for him. That’s a lot of cheddar we are paying for a bridge type quarterback. Hoyer would of been cheaper. He knew the system as he played here last year. We did not know the Bears would go after a quarterback in their first pick in the first round. Obviously Glennon did not know that either. I feel bad for Glennon. In Tampa Bay, he becomes the starter and then they draft Winston. Now in Chicago, Glennon has to be feeling the pressure of Mitch fever. He has to be waking up in cold sweats every night. Like he’s waiting on death row until the warden or the Coach says it’s time as Glennon will be toast and Mitch Trbisky will guide one of the oldest franchises back to glory.

Watching Mitch Trubisky throw that perfect pass to Tanner Gentry was something out of this world. In Chicago you’ve never seen a throw like that in a Bears uniform. Of course you would see your opponent do that to your defense. I don’t know how many times Bears corner backs have been on highlight reels. But it has always have been teams that have a quarterback. During the preseason I was amazed watching our young quarter back.  The precision passing. Getting the ball to receivers in stride. Pocket awareness. When to abort the mission. Most rookies will run if their main check down is covered. Mitch is eye balling the whole field looking at all options before he runs. He can throw on the run. He has showed some quickness with his feet. All the intangibles that make an excellent recipe for a great quarterback. Yes, Sid Luckman had all the greatness. We might be seeing the resurrection of the great Sid Luckman. I was not alive seeing that legend play. But of course I saw the bum Cutler break lots of his records. If Sid was around present times in a happy pass- friendly league his numbers would of been off the chart and no way a weasel like Cutler would of came close. Could Mitch be the next Luckman in Bears history?

Will Mitch be our starting quarter back this season with Glennon? After they drafted Mitch everyone from the papers, radio to the television and even people from their bar stool were saying Mitch has to sit the whole year and just learn. Now seeing him play, people’s eyeballs are popping out of their sockets and want him in pronto. Did Mitch get enough time with the number one team in preseason? Was he playing against enough number one units on defense when he came in? The beginning of the Bears schedule is brutal. You’re playing Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Minnesota, Baltimore, and Carolina. Many of these teams have solid defenses. I would not throw him out to the wolves. They should make him the number two though. No need to make the butt fumbler Sanchez your number two. Let Mitch soak in as much knowledge as he can from the sideline. I think Glennon will be better then any of the quarterbacks we had last year. I think he will be out to prove a lot because Mitch is on the sideline. I do not see Glennon having a winning record after the first six contests. I think patience is a virtue here as we waited so long for a quarterback to walk onto Soldier’s Field. We just don’t need to ruin his confidence early in the season where he might not get it back. This is the Chicago Bears we are talking about. They have never been this close to the sun. Let him learn and then mid season hand the ball over to Mitch and let him sling the rock around the field. The second half might be one of the best halves a fan could watch.