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FEE FI FOE FUM THE BEARS HAVE A SNAKE IN THEIR GARDNER NAMED JOHNSON

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The Chicago Bears are so desperate with their depleted secondary they just added a wolf to their sheep farm. The Bears just struck a deal with 27 year old safety CJ Gardner-Johnson who has had some run-in’s with Chicago receivers in the past. Last year Gardner-Johnson helped the Philadelphia Eagles win their second Superbowl in their franchise history giving the Kansas City Chiefs an old fashioned beat down. The Eagles traded Gardner-Johnson to the Houston Texans in the off-season where he played three games this season & then was released. The Texans head coach said CJ’s release, “was best for the team.”

This month CJ Gardner Johnson found another franchise interested in his services. He signed with the Baltimore Ravens on their practice squad. After a week it was called a mutual decision on his release. Now he will join one of his arch enemies while reuniting with his former coach Dennis Allen who was in New Orleans when he was there. Now Allen has the job of defensive coordinator for the Bears and is using his word to his employers that his guy CJ can get the job done and will not disrupt the team chemistry.

The Chicago Bears are 4-3 for the season. They won 4 straight games after starting 0-2 out of the gates. Last week Caleb Williams did not play well. The Bears defense kept their team in the game versus the Ravens against their 3rd quarterback of the season in veteran Tyler Huntley. The Bears new head coach Ben Johnson thinks Williams’ bad day was not all his fault as he was throwing the ball to the right spots in timing routes. That the receivers stopped their route short of the spot they were supposed to get to. With the Bears defense playing well and Williams showing improvement, maybe a guy like CJ Gardner-Johnson is what they need at this point to give this team a jolt. The Bears lost their best defensive back in Jaylon Johnson who has been sidelined for weeks and had surgery on his core muscle. Tyrique Stevenson is banged up with a shoulder issue and missed Sunday’s game versus Baltimore but is expected back this week. While Kyler Gordon will miss at least 3 more games as he is on the injured reserve. Gardner-Johnson was originally drafted by the Saints in the 4th round of the 2019 NFL draft. He can play safety and can cover the slot receivers which he did for Dennis Allen and the Saints. Last season for the Eagles he had 6 interceptions and returned one for a touchdown. He played in 16 games last year after only playing in 3 regular season games for the Lions in 2023. In seven seasons where he had two stints with the Eagles, Saints that drafted him, and the Lions and Texans. The Bears will be his 5th team already. He has 18 career interceptions of which he had 6 picks in two different seasons and both were with Philadelphia.

CJ Johnson-Gardner is a trash talker along with an instigator as the Bears in the past found out the hard way. In 2020 the Bears wide receiver Javon Wims punched CJ twice in the helmet. Wims said CJ took his mouth piece and spat on him. CJ at the time denied spitting on Wims. Javon would get suspended 2 games by the league for hitting CJ in the helmet. Then in 2021 the Bears met the Saints in the playoffs. The Bears had it in the game plan not to fall for any of CJ’s antics. Another Bears wide receiver may have not gotten the memo, Anthony Miller shoved CJ, and was ejected from the game.

Miller fell right into CJ’s antics and it was game over for the Bears receiver.

Remember when the Chicago Bulls traded for Dennis Rodman who was a Hall of Fame defender and his antics got in the heads of other players? Ask Karl Malone who could not shake Rodman’s antics in the championship series versus the Bulls. CJ Gardner-Johnson is not the missing piece for a Bears championship. Everyone hated Rodman when he played all those years with the bad boys, the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons were a thorn in the Bulls’ sides for years before Chicago slay their demons. The White Sox signed AJ Pierzynski, a key player that helped them win that 2005 World Series title for Chicago. Pierzynski all those years with the Twins he was hated by the White Sox fans. You hope Gardner-Johnson falls in with the Pierzynski and Rodman type guys you hated. Then loved when they are wearing your uniform and representing your city.

I’m not a fan of trash talking corner backs like CJ Gardner-Johnson. The Bengals teams that went deep in post-season seem to have multiple defensive backs that talked trash all game long. Gardner-Johnson has 2 career unsportsman-like conducts called on him. He has racked up six unnecessary roughness penalties in his career. Imagine all the stuff that he’s gotten away with. He certainly provoked those former Bears receivers to hit him in the heat of the moment. The Bears will need to win games to keep this clown happy and not become a cancer in the locker room. These types of guys can turn into a virus that spreads throughout the entire team. The ties he has with Dennis Allen will be important. I like that he can play multiple positions in the secondary. He certainly can help other Bears defensive backs get better by watching his coverage on offensive players. He can spark your team with a big time defensive play at a key point of the game. I think everything needs to be going well because he could also be the added fuel on the fire to send the Bears team into combustion mode. We’ve seen it before with the Jay Cutler’s of the world that wore Bears uniforms. Like an invasion of roaches, it takes awhile to get them all terminated from the locker room. The Bears are playing the Bengals this Sunday. We will see if Gardner-Johnson can contain their stud receivers like Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. The Bears already have the goofy Tyrique Stevenson in their secondary, a guy that did not cover Jayden Daniels’ Hail Mary pass last year because he was too busy taunting the crowd. Too many of these guys will set the fuse that burns the rest of your season away. The Bears are reaching here. It may work, but keep the fire extinguisher handy just in case.

TIME OF DEATH OF THE CHICAGO BEARS SEASON 3:00 PM WEEK TWO

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Ben Johnson was the hottest coaching commodity out there last year in the NFL and the Bears somehow convinced the offensive mastermind to come to Chicago. This signing was supposed to get rid of the stench of all the other coaches and General Managers that walked through Halas Hall spreading manure thinking they would be the guys to get this Bears team back to the promised land. The Bears opened up their piggy bank and are betting the farm on Johnson, paying him one of the highest salaries in the league. This is the Bears – they like to thumb through the penny saver to get their guy in the handyman section with a coupon attached. The first game of the Ben Johnson era opened up on Monday night football versus the Vikings. It was a game it seemed the Bears dominated most of. In the end the Vikings made a comeback with a rookie quarterback to stun the Bears at home. Then yesterday Johnson, playing his former team in Detroit, and the Bears would be battle tested early and find out what they are made of with a measuring stick versus the Lions. The Lions annihilated the Bears 52-21. The Johnson era is starting off 0-2 and they are already 0-2 in the division. The Bears roster is supposed to be competitive. This hire was to help this fan base forget about the turds of the past like Matt Nagy and Matt Eberflus. Now Johnson may be added to this list of misfits.

Ford Field seems to be turning into the house of horrors for the Chicago Bears in the last two seasons. Last year when the visiting Bears were in Detroit, it was an embarrassment for the franchise. It was the game that eventually got the front office to fire Matt Eberflus because he thought the time outs at the end of the game roll over to the next contest. Untrue as the Bears try to run a play and ran out of time as a time out could have kept the drive going for a few more plays. Instead the Bears walk away from Detroit as the jive turkeys while Detroit hung another loss on them which was a close game actually. The Bears may have been able to tie that game if a time out was called as they were by mid-field. The final in that one was 23-20 Lions. A field goal could have sent that one to overtime. Yesterday the Bears defense brought back memories of Marc Trestman, another turd head coach that let the defense fall into shambles during his era. The hair combover head coach, Trestman, lasted two seasons in 2013 & ’14 for the Bears. Back then as a fan base, we saw week after week opposing teams hanging 40 to 50 points.

You could say the turd from last year had the Bears playing solid defense. This season I thought the Bears made a good hire bringing in the former head coach of the Saints to be the defensive coordinator. Allen had two stints as a head coach as his first was with the Raiders. He became a head coach because of what he could do with a defense. In week one versus the Vikings, who started rookie JJ McCarthy, the Bears were playing three quarters of solid defense. In the 4th, McCarthy suddenly knocked off the rust and got in a groove to lead his Vikings to a comeback win. You would think that Ben Johnson would give Allen some insight into his old players in Detroit. The Lions in week one played like kittens as the Packers had their way with them and they gave Detroit a beat down. The Lions offense quickly roared back and the Bears looked like the junior varsity team. Why do the Bears still have Tyrique Stevenson on this roster? This is the turd that taunted Washington fans last year in DC. He was late to the party in the last play of the game. Jayden Daniels converted a winning Hail Mary pass to beat the Bears. The guy who caught the ball for the Commanders was the guy Stevenson was supposed to be covering. When the Bears lost their best corner back, Jaylon Johnson, to an injury yesterday, the Lions all-pro receiver had a big day on Stevenson’s expense. Stevenson could not cover Amon-Ra St.Brown who scored three touchdowns and had 9 catches for 115 yards. Jared Goff lit up the Bears secondary with play action passes. Isn’t that what the Lions also did under Ben Johnson the last few years?

Is Caleb Williams getting better as a quarterback? This is why Ben Johnson is here. I see the same things that happened last year. The offensive line has been revamped with veterans in the off-season. The Bears O-line looks like a turnstyle at Great America Amusement Park where everyone has a good time in our back field except us. Williams is running for his life back there like last year when he almost set a record for taking the most sacks as a rookie quarterback. The Bears drafted a tight end, Colston Loveland, in the first round and have not utilized him in their offense yet. Loveland is a tight end that can run routes like a receiver and has big play capabilities. Johnson’s play calling has been baffling so far. The Bears tried a QB sneak on 3rd and 1 and did not get it. Then Johnson ran it again on 4th down and the Bears did not get it. Lovie Smith could have done that. I think he invented that kind of stupid. My eyes see the Bears are having problems grasping some of the offense that have resulted in multiple penalties. The team looks unprepared. Once, wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad said that Chicago is where receivers come to die. The Bears still have not had a franchise quarterback since Sid Luckman back in the 1940’s. Williams still has not impressed me yet so far. I know after only two weeks, teams have time to right the ship. These are the Bears we are talking about. They have been looking for a solid head coach since the day they fired Lovie. He was not the best coach. He sure looks like the best coach this team has had in a very long time. Maybe the Bears is where head coaches come to die as well. Next week the Bears play the Cowboys. A bad Russell Wilson threw three touchdowns passes against the Cowboys and lit up their secondary with 450 passing yards. Guess who is the defensive coordinator for the Boys? Yes Bears X head coach, Matt Eberflus. If his defense suddenly stops Johnson’s Bears offense, then we should be looking to replace another yahoo at Halas Hall. I still think the season has concluded and should look when the Bulls and Blackhawks start their seasons.

IS J.J. GOING TO BE DYNAMITE FOR THE BEARS OFFENSIVE LINE NEXT SEASON?

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The Ben Johnson era in Chicago starts off with a move that several past General Managers for the Bears used the band aid method on over the last two decades. You could even throw the current GM Ryan Poles under a bus for not knowing what an offensive lineman looks like. The Bears pull off a trade with the LA Rams to land a veteran guard and one of Johnson’s old disciples from back in the Detroit days. The Bears acquire 28 year old left guard Jonah Jackson from the Rams for a 6th round 2025 draft pick. Before you make your Superbowl plans for the Bears, it comes with a cost of 17.5 million on the salary cap. The Bears will take on the entire length of Jackson’s contract – a guy that only played in four games last year. This sounds more of a Bears-like move.

Jonah Jackson was originally drafted by the Lions in the 2020 NFL draft, as he was selected in the 3rd round 75th overall from Ohio State University. Jackson has 5 seasons under his belt as he has started 61 NFL games. In 2021 Jackson was named to his only Pro-Bowl, by far his best season in the NFL. Last year the Lions chose to let Jackson walk out the door in free agency as he signed with the Rams on a 3 year deal worth 51 million. His lone season in LA was not worth remembering as he missed most of training with camp due to a injury. He did return to line up for opening week then in week two a shoulder injury landed him on injured reserve. He would return late in the season and play in another two regular season games. In Jackson’s first two seasons in the NFL, he played in 16 games in back to back years. In 2022 he played in only 13 games. In 2023 he played in only 12 games. Last year he played in 4 games. The Bears hope he can stay healthy this upcoming season and have a bounce back year.

Last season the Bears GM Ryan Poles improved the offense by adding all the fancy play makers and new offensive coordinator. Like past Bears General Managers he did not address that offensive line and it was like putting make up on a pig. Poles’ number one pick, Caleb Williams, paid the price in almost breaking David Carr’s rookie record of being sacked the most in NFL history. Williams made mistakes as a rookie that did not help the guys the Bears had protecting him. He would hold on to the ball way too long. Most of the games, the Bears offensive line caved in like a house of cards as defenders would blow up the middle of that line each week. The Bears coaching staff had no answers and no adjustments as Williams is lucky he is still in one piece by the end of another miserable season on the gridiron for Chicago. Williams’ first season was like Mitch Trubisky’s & Justin Fields’ first season with the Bears. Quarterbacks selected in the first round come in with a shaky line and a coaching staff that is doomed from the start. Then after that year, all three quarterbacks have to start over with another head coach and offensive coordinator. This go around the Bears kept Poles as he convinced ownership they need to spend the big money to hand the reigns over to Ben Johnson. He’s that hot shot offensive coordinator who did wonders in Detroit the last few years. Can Johnson avoid what happened to Matt Nagy and Matt Eberflus who ruined Trubisky and Fields? It looked like the Commanders who picked second overall in last April’s draft and selected Jayden Daniels, which made the better choice for now after one season. Will it continue?

The Bears will need more than one move to solidify their offensive line this off season. The Bears will not resign Teven Jenkins, Coleman Shelton or Matt Pryor who all played on the offensive line last season. They are set to become free agents and other teams’ problems. The Bears could address their line issues with free agency, the draft, or by trade, like they did with their first significant move of the off-season. This first move is indeed interesting. Jonah Jackson and many others in the NFL worked very hard to get that first pay day and after they get it, their performances drop off the map. Jackson got the big deal and after year one has not lived up to it. Injuries happen in football. Ben Johnson knows Jackson very well working with him for years so I suspect they think he will bounce back and the shoulder problems should not linger for years to come. You have to give head coach Johnson the benefit of the doubt because he knows what an offensive line man looks like over the yahoos who have failed at finding the right big guys to protect your asset which is the quarterback. Hopefully Coach Johnson can develop the quarterback as well. Which the Bears brass have not figured that out for quite some time. Keeping the QB upright is the first step which is basic Football 101. Jackson is a 315 pound beast the Bears are adding at left guard. He can play some right guard as well. He should help prevent the opposing defenses from caving in the middle of that line. He’s getting the big bucks so he better be worth it. The Bears have some space in their salary cap which will not be an issue making other signings. In the third year of the contract which will be the 2026 regular season, if Jackson is not worth keeping he would not cost much against the cap to cut ties with next off-season. His track record raises red flags for me as his career goes on, the less he plays. The Bears did not give up a lot for him. You are not getting a starting offensive lineman in the 6th round of this April’s draft. The pressure will be on Ben Johnson as he is getting paid well and this is his guy. Right now this move will be a wait and see. It could be dynamite in either way. Bears fans hope it does not explode against them like most of their front office moves they have seen for years.

REMEMBERING THE 2001 CHICAGO BEARS WITH HEAD COACH DICK JAURON

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When it comes to the Chicago Bears, decades and decades have gone past without a franchise quarterback. The jury is still out on Caleb Williams’ rookie season this past season. When it comes to head coaches, the Bears have had a list of clunkers since the team fired Mike Ditka in 1993. The Bears have been looking for a solid coach since they fired Lovie Smith in 2012. He led the Bears to a Superbowl loss in 2006, the last time they made it to the big game. We know with Ditka the Bears won their only Superbowl in 1986. We know before Ditka, Papa George Halas was a legendary head coach in Chicago for decades. The Bears have not figured out a way to find a head coach better than Smith. Many will say the Bears have not found a better replacement than Da Coach. In between Ditka and Smith, the Bears did find success. It was 2001 when the Bears went 13-3 under the former Yale graduate of Dick Jauron who had the Bears in the post-season in one entertaining magical year in team history. Jauron coached 28 seasons in the NFL and played 8 seasons as a player. He was loved by all whereever he worked as a coach and a player. It’s a shame when good people pass away as Jauron quietly did less than a week ago at the age of 74.

Dick Jauron was born in Peoria, Illinois. Jauron would attend grammar school in Rensselaer, Indiana. He played his high school football at Swampscott High School located in the state of Massachusetts. He was named top ten best high school players in the state of Massachusetts. He then played his college football at Yale University where he was 3 x First Team all Ivy-League. The Detroit Lions drafted Jauron in the 4th round of the 1973 NFL draft as a safety. He was also drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals as a short stop in the 1973 MLB draft. However he chose football over baseball. He played 8 years in the NFL with two teams. The Lions for 5 seasons and then the Bengals for 3 seasons. He earned his only pro bowl nomination in 1975 as he was still with the Lions. He played in 100 NFL games as a free safety and had 25 career interceptions. He had two defensive touchdowns. His NFL career ended after the 1980 season. In 2015 Jauron made it to the College Football Hall of Fame for his stellar play for the Yale Bulldogs.

Dick Jauron then took his talents to coaching as he started in 1985 with the Buffalo Bills as a defensive backs coach. Then from 1986-1994 he held the same job he had in Buffalo, only he did it with the Green Bay Packers. From 1995-98 he was the defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars under Tom Coughlin. Then the Bears gave him his first head coaching job from 1999- 2003. In 2001 he led the Bears to the post-season as they were one and done. They were quickly dispatched in the wild card round by the Eagles. Jauron would get fired by the Bears and finished with a 35-45 record in 5 seasons in Chicago. In 2005 Jauron was defensive coordinator in Detroit the last few years after Chicago and he took over the head coaching duties. In the last games in 2005, he finished 1-4 as the interim HC. It was good enough that the Bills gave Jauron his next head coaching job in 2006. He was fired in week ten of the 2009 season as he lasted 4 seasons. Jauron had three straight 7-9 seasons in Buffalo until the 4th year when things got worse. He started the season with a 3-6 record and was fired. He finished with a 24-33 record in Buffalo. In 10 seasons as head coach he had a 60-82 record and only coached one playoff game which was the loss to the Eagles. After Buffalo, Jauron did one season in Philadelphia as defensive backs coach.Then got the defensive coordinator job in Cleveland for another three seasons.

The Bears before the 2001 season were picked by the experts to be one of the bottom feeders in the league. The Bears most likely played a weak schedule from being a bad team the year before. Like the LA Chargers this season played well, got into the playoffs, and looked like they did not belong. I think the Bears may have gotten lucky in some of these games they played in this magical season where they went 13-3. It was a year that they were 8-0 in games decided by 7 points or fewer. The things most Bears fans remember were the back to back overtime games they won that year with Dick Jauron as the head guy. These two games were comebacks by the Bears to send them to OT. The Bears then won both overtime games against the Browns and 49ers with Bears safety Mike Brown scoring two defensive touchdowns to seal the deal in back to back regular season games. Jauron instilled a work ethic with these guys in 2001 and it was working.

Mike Brown was Johnny on the spot as you would think he had some magnet that had the football go to him like a dog bringing back a stick after you tossed it. Every winning season has some luck. Look at the Kansas City Chiefs blocking a field goal to deny Denver an upset this past season. Then all those games where the zebras gave the Chiefs the call that sent Kansas City home with a slew of victories and followed that same MO throughout the postseason until they were denied in the Superbowl. What comes around goes around.

Dick Juaron won 13 games with quarterbacks named Jim Miller and Shane Matthews as the starters. Miller was one of my favorite Bears quarterbacks of all-time. Miller arrived in Chicago in a clunker he drove from Pittsburgh. Probably his high school car. He was a fat guy who tested positive for steroids. Something has to be wrong with the NFL testing when you see a QB fleshy and gooey. Miller that season was 11-2 behind center as the Bears’ main guy. Matthews went 2-1. The Bears had the A-Train at running back.

Anthony Thomas was bruising back the Bears drafted from the University of Michigan. He had a solid season for the Bears rushing for 1,183 yards with 7 touchdowns. Jauron had the defense playing well and the offense. The QB’s were game managers taking what the defense gave them and not making the mistakes to cost their team. It was the last year in Soldier Field before the city gutted the insides and put a space ship on top of the stadium in an all out makeover.

The next season the Bears played all their home games at the University of Illinois while the makeover was going on.. That did not help Dick Jauron’s team. It would also be the quarterback play that eventually doomed Jauron’s first head coaching job. The Bears signed former Falcons veteran Chris Chandler who was at the end of his NFL career. Chandler made 7 starts in 2002 and went 2-5 as the starter. The Bears also gave another washed out veteran a chance in former Steelers QB Kordell Stewart, aka Slash. The Bears then drafted Rex Grossman in the 2003 NFL draft as Chandler would linger another year after 2002 to be the bridge guy. The Bears did not play well after 2001 and Jauron was fired.

Dick Jauron was a players’ coach like Lovie Smith. These coaches were always calm, cool, collected and more like father figures than an NFL head coach. Jauron was head coach of two of my favorite teams that I follow to this day, the Bears and Bills. He came into both jobs when both franchises were not playing well. He was a guy that was a straight shooter to his players, media, and people in general. He did things his way. You knew where you were at with Jauron. He treated everyone like how he would want to be treated. Both the Bills and Bears did not have a solid team built for him to work with. He took average guys and made them better. You would have loved to see what he could have done if he had a solid roster to work with. Smith had the horses as he was the guy hired after Jauron. Jauron was hired by a different General Manager than the one that fired him. Jerry Angelo was the guy that fired Jauron and he probably had no choice to keep Dick after that 13-3 record. Angelo did more moves-wise for Smith than Jauron. You could say the deck was stacked against him after that 2001 season.

Watching Bears football over the years Dick Jauron would not be the worst coach I’ve seen on the sidelines. He definitely is one of my favorites. In Chicago we have had a lot of bad teams in the Windy City landscape. Jauron would not make that list of all the bad coaches we had in this town in the four main sports. He was a brilliant mind. Played the game smart. He was a better college player than professional. In 28 years of coaching in the NFL he called some great games on the defensive side of the ball for many teams. Jauron was diagnosed with cancer and lost his battle at the age of 74 years old which is a shame. He stepped away from the game to help his wife deal with dementia. He always put others ahead of himself. The NFL world lost a wonderful guy, husband, father, coach, and friend. The 2001 Bears team was one of the best seasons being a fan of a very bad franchise. You have to thank a guy like Dick for giving us something to cheer for in bleak times. As Bears fans, we hope Dick RIP!!!

IF A PACK OF BEARS IS CAUGHT SHITTING IN THE WOODS, IT DEFINITELY STINKS

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Last Sunday the Chicago Bears shit the bed in their visit to the Bay Area to face a depleted 49ers team. Many of the players on the Bears were fed up with their old head coach Matt Eberflus. The Bears front office fired Eberflus finally after that debacle in Detroit. Not using a time out in a crucial situation in the last 30 seconds of the game when the offense was hovering around field goal range looking to tie the game versus the Lions. That was not the first blunder by Eberflus in his short coaching tenure with the Bears. The Bears front office finally showed some balls firing a guy that needed the pink slip last year with games still left on the 2024 schedule. In the past the Bears would wait on firing a head coach after the season concluded or letting their contract simply run out and move on. The Bears promoted Thomas Brown to the interim head coach, a guy who was just promoted weeks ago as the team’s new offensive coordinator. The players pretty much sang “Ding dong the witch is dead,” all week rejoicing that Eberflus had left the building. On Sunday in the debut of Brown as the Bears head coach, the Bears players shit the bed as the 49ers romped Chicago 38-13.

Who is Thomas Brown? Brown was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons back in 2008 in the sixth round of the NFL draft. He was a running back out of the University of Georgia. He suited up for the Falcons and Browns and really had a sip of coffee in the NFL. Brown is only 38 years of age and went into coaching after his playing career was non-existent. Brown had multiple coaching jobs in the college game. His position was running backs coach. In 2020 he got his first pro job with the LA Rams and worked for master mind Sean McVay as running backs coach. In 2022 he was still with the Rams as McVay switched Brown to tight ends coach. In 2023 Brown would find a better gig with the Carolina Panthers as the offensive coordinator. That did not work out well as the Panthers were a disaster in 2023. The Bears hired Brown as passing game coordinator this season. The Bears’ first scapegoat for their season gone bad was their new offensive coordinator they just hired in the off-season, Shane Waldron. The Bears promoted Brown to the offensive coordinator and Caleb Williams and the offense started to play better. That was enough then for the Bears front office to promote Brown again to interim head coach where he is way over his head and not even close to being qualified for this job in the NFL.

Thomas Brown changed some things around like any other guy would do when he was promoted. He said the Bears would play the game violently. On Sunday it looked violently ill. Brown’s style of football would be physical which he would bring to the opposing team. Usually when the interim coach takes over at least in the first game or two, the players respond. Many teams usually dumb down the play book. They get a loose free spirit environment for that week ridding the old tensions out of the locker room. Not these Bears as their shit stunk up the bay as the 49ers steam rolled them with back up personnel playing for back ups to the starters in some positions. The Bears were shut out 24-0 in the first half and the offense gained 4 stinking yards with 5 punts compared to the 319 yards of offense the 49ers had.

The Bears on defense were aggressive as they came after Brock Purdy with multiple blitzes. The 49ers encountered with running plays and screen passes that baffled this Bears defense that regressed after Matt Eberflus was shown the door. Maybe the Bears should have kept Eberflus to work the defense. Do you remember defensive end Montez Sweat who the Bears acquired at the trade deadline from the Commanders? Where has he been most of this year? MIA. Then Jaylon Johnson a talented Bears defensive back running his mouth all week on Eberflus being fired was also a no show against this 49ers offense that let Purdy finish the day with a 145.4 quarterback rating. George Kittle seemed wide open the entire game as linebackers Tremaine Edmunds and Jack Sanborn may have not read the scouting reports on one of the better tight ends in the league that may need some attention. Kittle finished with 6 grabs for 156 receiving yards.

The new interim head coach Thomas Brown is still calling all the offensive plays. Under his watch as the O-Coordinator, the Bears have not scored in the first half . It seems like he abandons the running game and the Bears looked like the walking dead going through the motions. Every game it seems like Caleb Williams finds his groove in the second half when most of the time it’s too late. In the second half the running game was installed on the play sheets and Bears mustered up 13 points. This offense still has all the same problems that no one on this coaching staff can fix. Once again Williams was sacked 7 times. Which now tallies up to 56 for the year as he closes in on David Carr’s rookie record as he was sacked the most all-time in NFL history. Williams’ knock is he holds on to the ball way too long. Which is true. The offensive line the Bears have assembled is horrific. Braxton Jones and Coleman Shelton became a turning style for the 49er defense. This was defense without their star defensive end Nick Bosa. The Bears O-line was losing one on one battles. It’s not like 49ers defense brought everything at Williams including the kitchen sink.

The Chicago Bears had many of us fooled this off-season with their moves including taking Caleb Williams with the number one pick. They say fools always rush in. We were admiring all the new shiny weapons the Bears had assembled on offense in flashy colored wrapping paper with bows on them. It felt like Christmas as the upcoming season was going for change be jolly and the playoffs. Bears fans had dancing sugar plums inside their head thinking about their team in the post-season. The return of a solid defense and an offense that were going to light up the score board every week. Now the bottom has dropped out of the house of cards that Bears general manager Ryan Poles built. He probably thought this Chicago job was going to be easy. I’m not sure if Williams is the right quarterback as all the others drafted in April’s NFL draft look much better than Caleb. The Bears have not had a franchise QB since the 1940’s. This franchise needs to hand the keys over to somebody that knows about the NFL and football. This team needs to nail down a new head coach. Someone who can discipline the players and rid this team of guys who play hard when they want to. They need a head coach that knows what an offensive line looks like. This head coach, either offensive or defensive, needs a guy on his staff that can develop Williams. Enough of giving assistants around the NFL their first head coach job. This Bears franchise better pull out the check book and get themselves a name. They need a guy that has been there done this. My short list would be Jon Gruden & Mike Vrabel to start. I may even give full control to Bill Belichick because he would do better getting the right players and they would play hard or else find themselves elsewhere. This has gone on long enough. The Bears have been shitting the bed since the late 80’s. I know the Bears made the Superbowl in 2006, but had Rex Grossman as their starting quarterback. Enough with shitting in the wood or the Bay, it’s time to use the bathroom like every other NFL franchise in the league.

BEARS SERVE UP THEIR JIVE TURKEY AFTER DETROIT LOSS

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Being a Chicago Bears fan this is nothing new for the fan base getting humiliated on a national broadcast. That is what went down in Detroit on Thanksgiving. The Bears in the last three games have pretty much been MIA in the first half of important games against division rivals the last three weeks. In the second half it seems like the Bears rookie quarterback suddenly wakes up and finds ways to get the team back in the game. In the first game of the Thanksgiving Day slate, the Bears were lingering around the field goal range with about 30 seconds left with a time out and chance to tie the game with the Lions or perhaps win the game. Caleb Williams, like he’s done multiple times, took a bad sack on 2nd down as the clock ticked away. It took Williams at least 20 seconds to get the offense set up for the next play. Let me remind you that the Bears head coach Matt Eberflus had a time out in his back pocket. The play went off and by the time Williams threw the ball, seconds on the clock had vanished. It was a deep pass to rookie wide receiver Rome Odunze and ended up being incomplete. Game over!! As everyone was speechless over what just happened on turkey day with the entire nation wondering why the Bears did not use the time out to reset things.

Immediately the CBS broadcasters chimed in saying this clock management by Matt Eberflus was horrendous. The former Falcon QB Matt Ryan now working the telecasts went on to say….

“This is unacceptable from the head coach position. Your responsibility is not to panic in a critical situation to put your team in the best opportunity to win games. That is a massive, massive fail by Matt Eberflus.”

You know the first question Matt Eberflus was asked in the press conference after the game. Why didn’t you use the timeout? The head coach of the Bears did not accept the blame for yet another blunder & instead threw his quarterback under the bus, Caleb Williams. Basically saying the lack of presence of mind to get the offense situated in time to get the play off & then use the time out. Did Eberflus not see that his rookie quarterback was having problems getting the troops up to the line as precious seconds ticked off? If the time out was used to reset the offense, the Bears could have tried a side line pass to get the first down or even get into field goal range. Obviously whoever caught the ball would need to step out of bounds to stop the clock.The Bears could have also spiked the football to stop the clock & then reset the offense. Then find a play to get them in field goal range while stopping the clock with the time out to set up the kick. Once again we go back to Williams trying to line up his guys which throws the spike out of the equation. Why did the Bears have a deep pass set up on that final play to Rome Odunze? It took the Bears staff too long to get Williams the play. Which is concerning. Williams changed the play to go with the deep ball to the end zone. Overall with a rookie QB, Eberflus needed to call the time out seeing his offense was not responding getting up to the line like a fire drill.

Only three weeks ago the Bears used the offensive coordinator Shane Waldron as the team’s scapegoat and fired him. Before the three division games against the Packers, Vikings, and just recently the Lions, the Bears offense could not generate many points which is frustrating having all these play makers that should get the job done on a regular basis. The Bears promoted Thomas Brown as their new offensive coordinator and the Bears offense looked way better. The Bears were in all three of these division games. You could have said the Bears could have won all three games. How did they lose all 3 game? You have to point to all the mistakes on the field. Which comes down to the head coach on penalties that happened over and over. The bad sacks that happen to their starting quarterback over and over. The clock management, the risky 4th down gambles, and stupid challenges all come down to Matt Eberflus. He was the Jive Turkey of what happened in Detroit. Yesterday his goose was cooked as the Bears finally pulled the trigger on this guy to get rid another stooge they hired as the long list goes on back to the Lovie Smith days when the Bears actually had a decent head coach.

The Bears organization is so dysfunctional on Friday & they knew they were going to fire Matt Eberflus. They still let him do his regular press conference that he does after all games the following day. Answering questions about the game and how he was getting the team prepared for next week. The Bears front office wasted the reporters’ time and by lunch Eberflus had his walking papers. Eberflus should have been fired weeks ago for not calling the time out during that Hail Mary play by the Commanders that beat the Bears with a walk off touchdown. Once again he had a time out and one of his defenders, Tyrique Stevenson, was too busy chirping with the Commanders players and fans on the sidelines thinking his team had the game in the bag. He was late to the party and let the guy he was supposed to cover wide open, game over. The Bears front office should have fired Eberflus after last year. The Bears played better in the 2nd half of the 2023 season. Why keep this guy when you have the number one pick and are going after an elite quarterback. Now once again the last three quarterbacks the Bears have drafted will have to deal with a new head coach and learn a new playbook along with a new offensive scheme. Eberflus is a defensive minded coach and should never be a head coach again as he was way over his head in this type of job. He is a good defensive coordinator, so he should stick to his day job.

Matt Eberflus was in Chicago for three seasons and finished with a record of 14-32 which is only a .304 winning percentage. Eberflus’ record against teams in the Bears division was horrific. The Bears have lost six straight games this season and they went through a 14 game losing streak under the Eberflus watch. Eberflus makes the Bears’ last head coach Matt Nagy look like a genius. Eberflus will probably go down as one of the worst head coaches in Bears history along with the great Marc Trestman. The Bears have promoted Thomas Brown twice in the last few weeks as he will become the interim head coach for the rest of the season.

THE HAIL MARY MAY BE THE CLOAK AND DAGGER OF EBERFLUS’ FATE AS BEARS HEAD COACH

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The football gods may be against the Bears having a franchise quarterback. The off-season looked pretty good for the Chicago Bears drafting a number one quarterback in Caleb Williams. Drafting a top flight wide receiver in Rome Odunze. The Bears General Manager Ryan Poles made a savvy trade landing another top veteran wide receiver in Keenan Allen from the Chargers. The Bears landed a new offensive coordinator in Shane Waldron who came in with experience. The defense was set from the 2023 regular season and only to get better. The Bears got off to a 4-2 start and were sitting pretty as fans were thinking this could be the year the team gets back to the playoffs. The last two games the Bears have played, it shows their head coach Matt Eberflus is way over his head in this job. Since the Commanders’ Hail Mary pass, Ryan Poles has to be thinking he has made a colossal mistake keeping Eberflus as his guy as this team has taken a few major steps backwards with the meat of the schedule coming into play. The Bears season is hanging by a thread.

Let’s take the hot tub time machine back to the Hail Mary pass thrown by Jayden Daniels of the Commanders that broke the Bears’ back in week 8. Matt Eberflus calls the defensive plays even as the head coach of the team. Eberflus was hired from the job he did as a defensive coordinator & when he was with the Colts, his defense was solid. The last drive versus the Commanders in week 8, the Eberflus defense played too soft. The first two plays where Washington managed to get to mid-field, it was rather quickly. Then not having any time outs left to burn before the Hail Mary pass went off. Both teams were lined up as Bears defensive back Tyrique Stevenson was too busy taunting the crowd thinking that his team, the Bears, had the game wrapped up. Stevenson was late getting over to the party. He got there but did not cover the guy he was supposed to cover. He went up high in the air with the rest of the scrum and tipped the ball right into the hands of Noah Brown who was waiting in the end zone all by himself. This as Washington steals a game in which they dominated most of the game.

The Bears should have stole this game as their offense came alive late in the game. The Bears could have taken the lead way earlier as Eberflus let his offensive coordinator call a hand off to a back up offensive linemen, who fumbled the ball on the exchange with Caleb Williams. How do you let a guy cold and coming off the bench take a pivotal hand off at the goal line to take the lead of game the other team has dominated? Doug Kramer Jr. should have not even been in that situation. Why bring in the trickery at that point of the game? Eberflus could have nixed that play being the head coach as he is listening to all his coaches through the headphones. Bobby Wagner recovered the fumble off the hands of Kramer Jr. The Bears defense would make a stop & then the offense finally took the lead in the last minute of the game. Then the Hail Mary pass leaves the Bears with egg all over their face.

Last Sunday, the Bears offense were playing the 26th ranked defense in the entire league the Arizona Cardinals. The Bears disciplined Tyrique Stevenson after the Hail Mary debacle. He would not start versus the Cardinals. Stevenson did issue an apology for not boxing out Noah Brown, the Commanders wide open receiver. When he heard he was being demoted as part of the punishment, he took himself out of a practice during the week. Then during the game on Sunday versus the Cardinals, as the Bears were on offense you see wide receiver DJ Moore just walk off the field during a play. For no apparent reason. The Bears got annihilated by the Cardinals. The Cardinals ran down the heart and soul of that Bears defense. You could see mis-tackle after mis-tackle. The offense had no answers from the Cardinals defense. It seems like the Bears were running the same play over and over. The Cardinals would flush Caleb Williams out of the pocket and then he would throw the ball on the run for an incomplete pass most of the afternoon. The Bears as a team came out unprepared and undisciplined on both sides of the ball. They even had Williams sling the ball with two minutes left in the contest during garbage time. One play it looked like Williams was hurt. It would have been time for the pitch forks and torches if your number one pick got hurt in a game that was out of hand.

The Bears won 7 games in 2023 and had a great second half but laid a clunker in their last game in Green Bay to their rival, the hated Packers. In that game the Bears seem like they went through the motions. The Bears GM Ryan Poles thought it was good enough to keep Matt Eberflus who started out of the gates ugly but turned the season around. It was that defense that excited people last year & looked like it was one of the top units in the league. So far this season the Bears defense has played well for most of the season. The Cardinals steamrolled this Bears team. You can blame some injuries. Maybe this defense is unraveling hearing the same voice. You can blame the current GM as the team has a shaky offensive line and Williams seems to throw on the run often. This is the 3rd season under Eberflus and as a head coach, his record sucks at 14-28. The Bears have not faced any of their division rivals yet. The NFC North is stacked with the Packers, Vikings, and the Lions. Before the last two weeks the division was being talked about that possibly three teams could make the playoffs. In Chicago we were thinking the Vikings may be the team that did not make it. Now the finger points to the Bears as the weakest link. I have a feeling that the Vikings, Lions, and Packers will show how inferior the Bears really are. We as fans always get suckered in. This is the year. Amazed at all the shiny new pieces. The looks like it’s the best team we had ever assembled since the ’85 team. Then we remember that we have not had a franchise QB since the 1940’s.

The former great Carolina Panther wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad when he played for the Bears said, “Chicago is where receivers go to die.”

Now we need a new head coach because Matt Eberflus is terrible. The Bears will not ever fire a coach during the season. Besides, which coach does the Bears have on this Eberflus staff right now that has head coaching experience? The new offensive head coach may be a problem as Caleb Williams started off cold out of the gates. Then started to improve. Then now has regressed. Just your typical rookie QB’s, you can say. The number two pick in Washington, Jayden Daniels, is not playing like a rookie. Shane Waldron’s trickery plays have backfired. The lack of a running game is a head scratcher. Waldron could be expendable too. Once again we have the same ole Bears. It happened to Mitch Trubisky. Then Justin Fields. Now it could occur with Williams. Two head coaches, along with two offensive schemes in the first two seasons of your football career. It looks to me like Eberflus has lost his locker room. The division games the Bears play coming up in the meat of this schedule will show you this team is not a playoff team. This team and its roster and coaching staff have more holes and question marks than answers to having a playoff roster in the NFL.