How Bout Dem Bears?

Go for it on 4th down and get the yards. Then try a trick play with Keenan Allen throwing a crazy interception with nothing on. They are not a serious organisation.

Wait….fumble….ball back!!

Somehow got back up the field to win it with a field goal! Thought they'd blew it, as usual, with the fumble that gave possession back after the two minute warning'.

Unbelievable.

Build the god damn team around Caleb (and sack anyone who’s fingerprints were anywhere near the offensive play book this season).

Watching the lions right now, goddamn I want Ben Johnson in Chicago tomorrow, whatever it takes they need to get him, no more arsing around. If he demands Poles be fired, then Poles should be filling a box with his belongings by lunch time.

Nice moment for Thomas Brown:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CHIBears/comments/1humbym/coach_tbs_final_message_ryan_poles_no_where_in/

And for the players, they never gave up in fairness, would've been tough to end the season on an 11-game losing streak. Happy for them, Cairo Santos and Caleb Williams. Gives a bit of hope for next season.

They've also requested to interview the Giants OC, which would be genuinely hilarious in fairness, a 5 win team hiring a 3 win coach. There's a grim streak of humour in me that hopes they do this.

Well I know they can only do virtual interviews with Johnson right now as they're in the playoffs. I read that he has expressed an interest only in the bears or the Patriots. If I were him I would probably go to new England, if I had the choice, but at least we are in the running of those rumours are true. Also, by all accounts the smart money is on vrabel to the Patriots. I hope that's how it pans out, I'm not fond of any other available candidates and I'd be massively excited about next season if we got Johnson in the door.

Oh dear Jesus I just watched some of the press conference, if I'm Ben Johnson I wouldn't touch this organization with a barge pole. George should never, ever be in front of a camera, because every time I hear him I get a new insight into just how incompetent he is and how illogical the running of the organization is under his watch. Apart from his stupid nonsense criticizing the fans about lions fans getting tickets to soldier field (turns out he sold suites to lions fans himself), he was so inept answering the GM question...as was Warren.

The whole impression the two of them gave was that Poles is a dead man walking. As always with the bears, though, they can't just pull off the plaster, and instead they are going to let him zombie on for one more year. This signals to Johnson, who has already said that stability is very important to him at the GM position, that they have no stability at all. Indeed, no top candidate will likely want such a role.

And it also continues their incredible habit of doing everything arse backwards, getting the QB in 24, the HC in 25, and probably the GM in 26, who will arrive, once again, with no choice over his own HC, thereby ensuring that any top candidate won't want the role. We can see a pattern forming here, in fact it's a pattern we're fairly familiar with.

After today it would be shocking to me, to my very core, if Johnson or Vrabel went near the bears, and it looks much more likely that we'll get some second rate ass kisser who doesn't use bad language as usual.

Maybe I'm overreacting, and maybe we still get Johnson, but even if we do that, today really demonstrated that we will not put anyone in the best position to succeed. Probably ever.

There was a private flight from Detroit to Chicago this afternoon that people on twitter started saying was Ben Johnson arriving, and this madman live streamed from the airport waiting to see if he'd get off the plane. Then he went inside and asked the workers if they had the flight log with Ben Johnson's name on it while 9,000 people watched. This fanbase is not mentally stable 😂

Woooo! I'm genuinely surprised they did it, and maybe as fans we tend to become too obsessed with the idea of the organization as being incompetent, but whatever, they did the right thing here instead of getting clever or cheap. Hopefully he works out and so does Williams!

Love that:

https://streamable.com/ldkazt

Oh well. Same ole bears.

Yeah I don't want to read too much into one game, but it was so familiar as to be uncanny. The offense gradually falling apart in its ability to execute (along with the depressing return of passes behind the line of scrimmage at crucial moments, that always get obliterated immediately), the defense starting really strongly and then over time getting worn down, and then giving up massive, morale-sapping chunks in the running game in particular. Nothing that happened was really much different from last year. Williams avoided getting sacked so much, which was good, but he was AVOIDING it, running for his life because he wasn't getting good protection. So, the o-line is still not right either. So yeah, everything about it reflected the things that were wrong under Eberflus.

Now, Rome wasn't built in a day, so maybe we don't need to despair. But there is some serious work needed right now.

One bit of good news is the Lions looked even worse than us last week, so at least we're not going up against anyone brimming with confidence. But they will have a big point to prove against Johnson.

What a deeply embarrassing team the bears are to support.

Not sure I can keep doing it to be honest.