Angry rant from die hard Bears fan.
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Mar 16, 2009 11:41 PM CDT
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PrintLately, I have been overwhelmingly frustrated when reading anything about the Bears offseason moves or lack there of. Already too many players have drifted through and still linger in free agency that could turn our team into a contender while we "hibernate" and pinch our pennies. (Not to mention the few players on the trading block who the Bears should be bending over backwards to attempt to acquire.) I imagine that hearing about Jay Cutler's situation going from bad to worse excites the hopes of Bears fans everywhere, also Cutler hails from Santa Claus, Indiana and has admitted that he grew up a Bears fan. It would be a dream come true to have a Pro Bowl QB who grew up loving the Bears like all of us under center, finally bringing an end to the horrors that plague that position. Yet why do I have to open the paper and read why our management will do nothing to pursue someone who can turn around our franchise? Why do I have to read the quality articles from Bears fans on WCG knowing that all our questions, comments, and concerns will fall on deaf ears? I'm tired of hearing the Bears should offer this and that when I don't see any desire or passion from any of our management. Believing that the Bears problems will be solved by our coaching changes is a joke. It's like Angelo and Lovie are expecting to be gone by the end of next season and don't care about the franchise or winning.
Can we at least hear that the Bears are interested in these players who could turn this team around? Can we at least hear they are making offers even if those offers have been rejected or are along with other offers from other teams? I just don't get it anymore. This nonchalant attitude that echoes through Halas hall makes me ill. How is this helping this team become anything more than what we have been since removed from our Super Bowl year? And for some reason within the Bears it seems like they think all they are doing is the best things for the franchise. I used to really enjoy reading Larry Mayer's blog about the Bears on the official site but after he started posting comments from Bears' fans that disagreed with they're moves, he has shown that his head is securely fashioned up the a** of the Bears' management and thats where it shall stay. Where is the passion and pride of the Chicago Bears when we need it?
In conclusion, I realize that I am rambling but who better to ramble to than true Bears fans. If Bears management wants to continue this way then why don't they release a statement explaining that they will not be doing anything smart for the rest of the offseason outside of the draft, that way when news hits of potential players on the market who could really help our team we can just read about Urlacher in the weight room or that Bullocks decided on us because of our great tradition. Give me a break. I love the Chicago Bears more than any other team in existence. I believe in the players we have but we all know we are not ready to make a run at the Super Bowl. If they aren't preparing our team for the highest level of success they are preparing them for failure and disappointment. Please let the winds of change blow through Halas Hall...I'm growing weary of this.
Bear Down.
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Nice post..
This should be printed on the front of the Chicago Tribune!
Todd Boeckman 6'5 244lb 5th yr senior = this years QB sleeper!!!
The problem is the McCaskeys refuse to spend money
You can yell and scream at Jerry Angelo all you want, but your anger would be directed at the wrong person. It should be VERY CLEAR by now that the McCaskeys have instructed Ted Phillips and Angelo that they are denied ability in being a player in free agency or in major trades that would involve big dollar consequences.
Angelo is operating with handcuffs. No question about it.
When the Bears max out at 5 or 6 wins in 2009 then the backlash needs to be appropriately directed at the McCaskeys. Not Angelo or Lovie Smith. You can’t expect a General Manager and a Head Coach to improve things when they aren’t allowed to upgrade the talent level and fill the many holes that plague this roster. The 2009 draft is not going to result in immediate help at so many positions of need.
It is crazy to think how one marriage could ruin a franchise
Why oh why did you, Virginia, have to mary Ed McCaskey?
Remember Papa Bear was against the marriage.
by Looney_Bucky on Mar 17, 2009 11:05 AM CDT up reply actions
I agree.
And with the Broncos claiming they’re not interested in draft picks, this makes landing Cutler very difficult.
Still, it’s time to get creative. Find a way. Please.
http://thegettinplace.blogspot.com/
I don't know about that
the Broncos have to rebuild that relationship. They have to yell from the top of every building that they don’t want to trade him.
But if one day they picked up the phone and there was JA saying I’ll give you Orton and a 3rd, maybe they bite.
Being Who You Thought We Were Since 2005!
That's not the first time someone on this blog
has said Orton and a 3rd for Cutler…
Ryan Perilloux in 2010!!
I was not really giving anything specific
just used it as a means to say they have to act like they don’t want to trade him, but if somebody called them and gave them an offer, they’d listen.
Being Who You Thought We Were Since 2005!
And it's just that.
Call and give them an offer. See how they react. Find out their limitations and their wants from our club and try to make it happen. I wouldn’t personally be concerned about Orton backlashing like Cutler did in case the deal didn’t happen…he knows that he was a 3rd stringer two years ago, hasn’t proved he’s a long term solution, and is on the last year of his contract as a Bear. Besides that he knows his numbers compared to Cutler’s. Maybe it would give him more motivation.
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Mar 17, 2009 1:48 PM CDT up reply actions
that "one day"
is likely to be draft day if any day. I think Orton and a 3rd rounder is a fair offer, but i don’t think the Broncos strongly consider it until the Bears are on the board in round 3. It makes sense to me at this point for teams to wait to make any trade(s) involving draft picks until draft day in order to make sure they can get the guy they want with the newly acquired pick. As much as i want the bears to make a deal, i doubt they will… the only glimmer of hope is draft day.
I don't see how that's a fair offer
If I’m the Broncos, I hang the phone up or punch Jerry in the face. Cutler was the 12th overall pick. Has been pretty damn good his career so far. Orton was a 4th round pick. Orton has been OK his career. So essentially, you’re trading a former 12th overall pick whose one of the best young QBs in the league for a former 4th round pick with a candy arm and a 3rd? It’s going to take more than that.
I have no problem giving up our first too
for a true franchise quaterback whose only 26.
Yes, please
Well
I don’t know. I would say this years first, Orton if they want him, and next years 3rd should do it. If they want 2 1sts, I think you have to walk away. The Bears are too committed to their drafts to warrant 2 1sts. If the Bears were players in free agency, do it.
I kind of like that idea
Of the Broncos lining up to smack Jerry in the face, that is. One after the other.
I agree with that as well.
I was going to post something about that in my rant but yielded to do so. I was also attempting to parallel the belief that coaching changes could turn our team around with the theory of evolution and the denial by true blooded Christians which I also yielded. But I agree, the McCaskey’s definitely have a hand in what is going on with this team and they do not have a right to do so. I think they’re more concerned with what money they will have for they’re retirement homes in Florida than that of the success of the Bears. It’s extremely selfish to think how they are treating this team when MILLIONS of Bears’ fans exist in this world and sit idly by while they’re team sets them up for more disappointment. You’ve heard of ousting governments, well lets set up a revolution and take down the McCaskey’s rein of terror and have this team run by it’s rightful owners…the Chicago Bears faithful!
Hey, I know that’s not going to happen but seriously when will they realize that they’re interests aren’t right for this organization. If they want to “hibernate” like the papers so aptly put it, they can fly down to Florida in time for the Early Bird dinner tonight.
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Mar 17, 2009 12:43 PM CDT up reply actions
For the record. I agreed with BLou's comment..
I don’t think I replied correctly.
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Mar 17, 2009 1:07 PM CDT reply actions
I think the most maddening thing about the Bears
inabilty to spend money is that: they have the ability to always recoop that money. they’re still selling stuff from 85. A quarter century ago. Imagine how’d they’d rake it in if they even TRIED to win more that 4 times a century.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Mar 17, 2009 1:23 PM CDT reply actions
Well said sir
well said
OH! STEWIE!! GET OUT THE WAY BOY! GET OUT THE WAY!
-Stacey King
by ifuwannacrownem on Mar 17, 2009 6:14 PM CDT reply actions
Where is the passion and pride of the Chicago Bears when we need it?
Right here, me, Haightminow. I’ve been passionate about these Bears of mine since day one and I will remain passionate. I refuse to be discouraged. You people need to snap out of it and Bear down. Something special is gonna happen this year, mark my words. And I’m gonna be right there saying, “I told you so”. And guess what, even if I’m wrong and my team is sucking wind, I’m still gonna be passionate and proud of my Bears because it’s my team and I choose to live this life as a follower of the Bears. Now Bear down, through the thick and the thin, the good and the bad. We don’t need fair weather fans, they come a dime a dozen, we need any weather fans.
Passion For The Game, Loyal To The Name, Chicago Bears, I Trust In Thee, Standing Strong Since 1983.
I hope you are not considering me to be a fair weather fan.
My passion for this team is the reason why I wrote what I did. I have pride in our team and players and I stated that with some opinions of my own. I love this franchise, I just wish in some areas they were being more aggressive.
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Mar 17, 2009 8:06 PM CDT up reply actions
haight thinks everybody is a fair weather fan
it is part of his charm.
Being Who You Thought We Were Since 2005!
yeah I've been around since he started blogging.
he’s quite charming.
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Mar 17, 2009 8:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I think all of us are passionate fans
It takes a special kind of person to visit a Bears blog every day in the offseason. Some may say it’s good special, some bad.
Regardless, we all want the team to win. Some of us are rooted in a little more realism than others, but that’s ok. It’s what makes blogs like this great.
I'M A MAN! I'M 22!
It takes a special kind of person to visit a Bears blog every day in the offseason
And an even more special person to dream about visiting one.
by KtownBear on Mar 18, 2009 5:49 AM CDT up reply actions
what about those of us who actually try to blog
about the Bears in the off season. We get our own level of special, I’d deem, just not sure if that is good.
Being Who You Thought We Were Since 2005!
We should be awarded the Pulitzer prize
for trying to blog about the Bears in the offseason. Lord knows it’s like trying to squeeze water out of a rock.
OH! STEWIE!! GET OUT THE WAY BOY! GET OUT THE WAY!
-Stacey King
by ifuwannacrownem on Mar 18, 2009 9:30 AM CDT up reply actions
this is turning into
an everyday occurrence.
OH! STEWIE!! GET OUT THE WAY BOY! GET OUT THE WAY!
-Stacey King
by ifuwannacrownem on Mar 20, 2009 8:42 AM CDT up reply actions
This coming from
the same guy who said the Bears might be f**cked because they didn’t resign John St. Clair. I find it amazing that you can write the posts you write about being a Bears fan through thick and thin and being proud of them even if they gave you a Cleveland Steamer, then turn around and get discouraged becaused they didn’t resign John St. Clair.
He wasn't replying to Haight?
I haven’t had me mornin’ cup yet, so maybe I’m wrong…
Ryan Perilloux in 2010!!
I'm one of the few who recognized the importance of signing St.Clair.
And very far from being discouraged. I don’t know how long you have been around McDipper but I’ve been doing this for 25 years now. You think by not signing St.Clair that I am, “all of a sudden” discouraged? I don’t think so. I’m the guy that goes to FootLocker after the Bears lose the Super Bowl and buys a new Bear jersey. Your probably the guy who went out and bought a Peyton Manning jersey. See that’s the difference between me and you. I remain faithful, no matter what. Remember Rocky 4? When Apollo Creed told Rocky not to throw in the towel, “no matter what”? What did Rocky do? He remained faithful, Apollo died, but Rocky remained faithful, no matter what! That’s me, always faithful, no matter what!
Passion For The Game, Loyal To The Name, Chicago Bears, I Trust In Thee, Standing Strong Since 1983.
Am I supposed to be impressed?
No, the difference between me and you is that I know the difference between fantasy and reality. You live in a fantasy world. You seem to think that if you give the Bears your all and root for them when the going gets tough and bend over for them, that some way you are “part of the team”. Your ridiculous posts about “going to war with the enemy” are tired. You come across as “the greatest Bears fan alive” and all others who don’t share your perverted enthusiasm for the team aren’t worthy to call themselves Bears fans.
That’s where I’m different. I know that this team doesn’t give a flying f*ck about me. I root for this team because I was born into it. When they suck, I get mad. When they’re good, I’m happy. When Angelo and Co. sit on their fat asses and do nothing, I question that. It doesn’t make me less a fan. I don’t give a damn. At the end of the day, this is still just a sport. I don’t take this shit as seriously as you. Who the hell does?
I guess what I’m trying to say is, I feel sorry for you.
let me guess...
haight=cub fan
mcR= sox fan
You're gonna get killed for that one.
How could you not tell with McRipper’s avatar?
I'M A MAN! I'M 22!
There it is there, McDipper.
You don’t give a damn. But my question is, if you don’t give a damn, why all the crying and bitching and moaning and groaning?
Passion For The Game, Loyal To The Name, Chicago Bears, I Trust In Thee, Standing Strong Since 1983.
by Haightminow on Mar 19, 2009 11:30 AM CDT up reply actions
Say no more.
And you feel sorry for me?
Passion For The Game, Loyal To The Name, Chicago Bears, I Trust In Thee, Standing Strong Since 1983.
by Haightminow on Mar 19, 2009 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Everyone here...
exemplifies what being a true Bears FAN is all about.
WE care about this team, we want them to succeed…and they will. Have faith in this squad, and in Lovie and Jerry. The owners are to blame for what is going on right now, but we can win with the players we have, we have proven it before.
BEAR DOWN, CHICAGO BEARS! LET THEM KNOW WHY YOU’RE WEARING THE CROWN!
ummmm....
Ed McCaskey isnt his alias AL DAVIS?
Great rant
It’s like Angelo and Lovie are expecting to be gone by the end of next season and don’t care about the franchise or winning.
I think they’re beyond stubborn, and have too much faith in their philosophy. It’s mind numbing to believe they can improve by better coaching alone.
Aren’t the Bears in the 2nd largest market in the NFL? There’s absolutely no reason not to try to improve the team by spending a few dollars. It’s as clear as mud that they barely have enough talent to win 7-8 games.
"I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." - Dick Butkus
Hey, hang on there.
Last year, we won 9… and we very well be able to match that total this next season.
Lol… If we don’t make it out of the first round of the playoffs (?!), then somebody is gonna be looking for a jorb after the season.
Then again, if we go 9-7 again,
I can just hear Ted Phillips: “Jerry Angelo is our GM.”
Jerry Angelo: “Lovie Smith is our HC.”
Lovie Smith: “_______ is our QB.”
Ryan Perilloux in 2010!!
I just...
threw up a little in my mouth…
We SHOULD have been 11-5 last year if it WASN’T FOR COACHING…
Atlanta? Carolina? Minnesota at the Dome???? Give me a break.
Something has to give, and we better GIVE the Bears a 1st place in the NFC North this year of Lovie and JA should be going bye-bye (I HOPE!)…
Jerry and Ron are worthless!!!!
Jerry Angelo is worthless and so is Ron Turner. This year there were plenty of free-agents that would have made us a way better team and even a contender for the big prize. Some of our defensive players are way over payed and our front office doesn’t want to spend any money. Jerry Angelo doesn’t know football and is simply worthless!!! Ron Turner doesn’t no how to coach or call a game either!!!
by Bears fan 4-ever!!! on Mar 19, 2009 3:11 PM CDT reply actions
Cutler?!?!
Look, I loved this franchise since then first day I could pronounce Butkis without laughing( hey i was five ok) But, really trying to trade draft pick(s) and player(s) for Jay Cutler is a bad move. Sure he’s good and has some talent, but he’s not worth the price I keep reading on the web and in the CST. If this guy was a proven winner like a McNabb or Brady ok fine pull the trigger. But, if the price for Cutler is Orton and some picks I say we can get Linenart from AZ for that price. At least we know that we’d be getting a player that’s about the team, and not his own overestimated ego.
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