When was the last time the Chicago Bears won a football game? You have to go back into the archives and find the last victory which was a win in week 7 last season in 2022 versus the New England Patriots in October. Since that win, the Bears have lost 12 straight including two winnable games this season. As Bears fans, we were happy to see the Bears tank last season to get the number one pick overall. The Bears cleared out a ton of salary. The team had a new regime in place. The rebuild would be built and centered around Justin Fields as some think he is the franchise quarterback. Some do not. Majority still have questions lingering in their mindset about Fields. In the off-season, the plan the Bears had was in place adding talented free agents on both sides of the ball. The team seemed to draft well. They made some savvy trades. Ryan Poles looked like the savior. Suddenly this season this team has that White Sox feeling tainted all over this rebuild. It feels like the Bears are the Titanic, just hit a massive iceberg, and they still have 15 games left in regular season.

It starts with the center of this rebuild, Justin Fields. We all know Fields can run the football as he did that in 2022 a lot. Some of the runs probably saved his life. Last year, the team had a bad offensive line. Now Fields has a stable wall and is surrounded by multiple playmakers. I always thought Fields can throw a nice deep ball. I have not seen enough of the short to medium passing game, the stuff that moves the chains from Fields. This year the Bears are using Fields as a pocket passer which is not his skill set. Fields this season has completed 60.6% of his passes for 427 passing yards with two touchdown passes and three interceptions. Former head coach, now football analyst, Rex Ryan said that Fields is not a pocket passer and he’s a guy that should be rolling out throwing on the run. Fields has held on to the ball and has taken multiple sacks in the first two games of this season. Fields has even blamed the coaching about the game plans where he has to overthink each play and not just react to see what’s in front of him. Fields described himself as feeling robotic behind the center. When the new regime was hired, fans of the Bears were dancing in the streets naked welcoming them and seeing Matt Nagy kicked out the door of Halas Hall. Nagy inherited Mitch Trubisky like Eberflus inherited Fields. In the first two seasons by the numbers, Mitch’s numbers are way better than Justin’s.

Lets talk about the defensive minded head coach, Matt Eberflus. Numbers never lie as Eberflus is in his second season as the Bears head coach and his record is 3-15 which is the worst all-time in one of the original franchises in the NFL. Where’s the defense? The general manager, Ryan Poles, stockpiled you personally as he signed a wrecking crew of linebackers that have a solid history in place in the league. Last week the defense could not get off the field as Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers marched up and down the field, no problem. In the season opener, Green Bay Jordan Love in his second start of his NFL career looked like a Hall of Famer on the road in Chicago. Then the lack of conditioning. Playing in Tampa Bay with the heat is a factor, but this team was not prepared for the environment as multiple players left the game with some cramping or heat exhaustion symptoms. The season schedule is a big hint on how to prepare for a road game. Last year I give Eberflus a hall pass for because the General Manager Ryan Poles traded away his best defenders before and during the season. I liked what I did see from Eberflus’ defense before the trades. Is the scapegoat the defensive coordinator?

The defensive coordinator of the Bears defense is 53 year old Alan Williams. Williams might be the sacrificial lamb for the Bears’ woes on the defensive side. Williams resigned from the team claiming he has health problems and personal issues as he needs to step away to be with the family. Williams was hired by Matt Eberflus as the two worked together in Indianapolis for a few seasons & he coached the team’s safeties. Williams did not go into detail, but stories came out of the woodwork after the fact that FBI raided his house and agents went to Halas Hall. The Bears and Williams lawyer said these rumors were false. Did Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn get jobs in the Bears front office? Because this sounds like a story that only can happen to the Chicago baseball team, the White Sox. The Bears will hide anything Williams is involved in as long as they can.

The season is two games in and the Bears seem to have a season’s worth of drama. In the first game versus the Packers, an arch-rival, a Bears wide receiver did not look motivated or happy to be out on the field. Chase Claypool dropped a few balls, missed a few blocks, and was not giving a 100 percent. Claypool would give up on certain plays and pretty much not even give a good effort to go through the motions. The other new wide receiver the Bears got from the Panthers in off-season is DJ Moore, a number one receiver on most teams. He was telling the Buccaneers linebacker the team game plan for how they were using him and Fields was horrific. Moore was hardly used in the opener but had a good day versus the Buccaneers. The offense is as much to blame as the defense and the bad coaching. The Bears offensive coordinator, Luke Getsy, well… enough is enough with the same sucky screen passes that don’t go anywhere. Let’s remember Getsy’s play calling Fields only threw the ball three times downfield beyond ten yards in the first game hosting the Packers. Then the back up quarterback being Nate Peterman, who would not even start in the XFL or the USFL. Why are we keeping this guy. The Bears cut Peterman multiple times to bring him back each time. Why, why, why??

I don’t see the Bears winning this weekend facing the Chiefs in Kansas City. This Bears team has time to turn things around and work their way out of the bottom of the barrel. It’s too late as this team has hit an iceberg and will not make the post-season. If the Bears repeat last year’s performance, they will get another number 1 pick and enter the Caleb Williams sweepstakes. If the Bears traded away Justin Fields at the end of last season, why because he was brilliant but a mystery, they could have gotten a nice return. The thing that irks me about Fields is the 2 minute offense at the end of the game where he has to step up and lead the team down the field with a game winning or tying drive. Last year, he could not do that. This year he had a chance last week and it did not look good in that situation. I want a guy like Patrick Mahomes who can run that offense like a puppet master. Can the Bears have more success with Justin Fields or Matt Eberflus’s group in long term? If the Bears change coaching staffs once again, it’s another coordinator for Fields. Right now the women and the kickers are fleeing the Bears’ Titanic as this might actually go deeper than a head coach or another quarterback bites the dust behind center for Chicago. The fans can’t even have their giardiniera on their Italian beef, a usual staple in Chicago, because the Monsters of the Midway don’t have that defense that carries that offense for decades. Another story breaking new vandals were able to break into Soldier Field and steal thousands dollars worth of equipment from the Bears. Who’s the Captain and goes down with the ship? I could have sworn I saw him in a dress sneak out the back door.