I’m a Lions fan, and reading the comments on here it sounds just like when we had Martz. He is making your O-Line look worse than they are. Everyone wanted the whole line cut, and then I remember how much better our line looked as soon as Martz left.

Dump the whole Coaching staff. This is karma for hiring the old Lions staff in the first place.

The fact of the matter is that the NFL is a very competitive league, and while the Bears aren’t going to be favored from week to week, they are the type of team that will likely win about half of their games.

Last season, they took advantage of opponents injuries and a weaker schedule and came out above average. This season, a tough early schedule and some key injuries have put them below .500.

They look like a lot of other teams: NYJ, NYG, ATL, HOU to name a few. The only difference between Chicago and these teams so far…schedule. Chicago has lost to the 3 best records in the NFL.

The Bears always perform better late in the season as an outdoor team, a veteran team, and a chip-on-the-shoulder type team. Let the season play itself out before you determine how horrible this team is.

ROTFLMAO. You mean the game against Tampa that you lost after being ahead 17-0 or the game against Detroit that you lost after being ahead 20-0?

Jerry also blew his 2nd round pick on a short DT that has been inactive for the first 5 games and of course he has a history of knee problems.
Jerry loves that!
Draft damaged goods because you believe you are getting a deal and everyone else will be sorry later.
He did it with Corey Wootton, Chris Williams, Tommie Harris, Marcus Harrison, Dan Bazuin, Dusty Dvoracek…. it goes on and on.

Jerry and Lovie NEVER deveate from their plan.
They are NEVER wrong.
They NEVER learn from their mistakes because in their minds they NEVER make any.
It is someone else to blame because they could not make their flawed system work.
Their management style is like a bottle of shampoo.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.

I agree with you on two out of three there. Mike Martz and Jerry Angelo need to go. Lovie smith has shown that he can motivate his guys and get them ready to play, the players love him, and removing him would cause a massive wave of unpleasantness from the locker room and might well pit key leaders on this team like Urlacher and Briggs against the new coach.

Martz however has to be lossing his hold on the players quickly. This Bears offensive line isn’t very good(who am I kidding they are, with the exception of Chris Spencer, utter trash), the the offense that Martz runs basically exposes all of their weaknesses(sustaining blocks for Cutler to get a 5-7 step drop) and rarely highlights any of their strengths(they can run block with some effectiveness). The Bears do not have polished hall of fame receiver like Torry Holt or Issac Bruce, but what they do have is 2 guys in Devin Hester and Johnny Knox that have tremendous speed and acceleration. If a short to intermediate passing game were implimented that focused on getting them isolated and simply having too much burst off the line they could run an effective offense. This is just so counter to the Martzian system that he won’t even consider it. The plays that infuriated me the most were watching Cutler line up with an EMPTY backfield, but do it from under center. with that offensive line if they don’t have a RB in on the formation keeping him out of shotgun is just irresponsible and if I were him I’d have gone back there regardless of what my OC called.

Angelo…Brain
Lovie….Brain
Martz…Brain

Courage and Heart, we’ll that up to the McCaskey family….get rid of these clueless Wannstadt replica’s.

Sure, the Bears have quite a record advantage over the Vikings (2-3 vs 1-4), but the Vikings have scored more points this season AND allowed fewer points than the Bears over the first 5 games. If the Vikings win on Sunday, the Bears will be the new team in the NFC North basement.

Not that I think either team is going anywhere this season…

They signed peppers as a FA and didn’t give up anything.

Complaint fail.

Gerry Angelo and Mike Martz are the worst offenders but Lovie Smith has to take some responsibility, too.

They are starting the 2 worst WR’s on their team in Roy Will and Hester. Knox and Bennett should start with Sanz and Hester in the slot. I would put Forte out wide before Roy Williams right now.

I think the Bears need a complete sea change of culture. We as fans have to move beyond the ’85 Bears and stop chanting “defense” and “run the ball,” we’re just enabling the front office to sign players to a scheme that doesn’t work anymore. Cutler is and should be the central building block going forward, and we need a new front office to recognize that and build around his strengths. That means a competent offensive line, legitimate, threatening wide receivers and a defense that can generate constant pressure the QB. Modern football is about passing to win and pressuring the QB, and it’s time for the Bears to evolve or die.

He ignores Martz’s idiotic play calling until Cutler is beat up & the Bears lose the game. Journalists & fans have been pointing to the weaknesses for months. But he’s only come around this time because the team was embarrassed on national TV.

I guess we’ll just gave to suffer through another pointless year with this sad excuse for a football team.

My hope is that the Bears will finish so poorly that even the McCaskeys will have to face the fact that Angelo, Lovie, and Martz need to move on down the road.

You out of your mind. Tillman is the only defensive back making plays out there. Calvin Johnson only had three catches against Tillman which to me make me think that he had him pretty covered. All of the deeper passes were in cover 2 where Tillman is suppose to release and the safety is suppose to pick him up.