Chicago Bears Fall Victim to Chicago Bears Weather

It depends on the team and the players.

Give me the Saints in Bears weather. Give me the Vikings and Brett Favre (the old man edition) in Bears weather. Give me Mike Vick in Bears weather.

The New England Patriots? Notsomuch.

For example if we played the Cowboys yesterday I think we would have had a slight advantage. Yesterday that was just two cold weather teams in the snow. Their was no advantage for either team.

(no pun intended). What genius doesn’t build his team’s strength around the home field? If you play half of your games on one field, shouldn’t you build a team that is suited to playing on that field? I understand Lovie has his dream of fast small defenders to run the Tampa2, but don’t JA and Lovie share in the stupidity here?

a fast pass offense coming into chicago an whipping us on what was supposed to be a home field atavantage, Bear weather didn’t die yesterday, it died in 89.

same with next year too…

but, it never dies. the spirit lives on.

Sure, Vick may not like playing in the cold, but didn’t LeSean McCoy play at Pitt? Point is – as Moon’s article hinted – players come from all sorts of weather backgrounds. A guy on a warm weather team may have played college in a cold climate place and gotten used to it. A guy from a warm weather hometown may have been playing in cold climates so long it doesn’t bother him anymore.

There may be a slight advantage but it’s almost irrelevant at the professional level. A good team will perform regardless of weather conditions. The Bears are not there yet, but who would’ve thought they’d be better in domes then at Soldier Field? And it’s not because they’re built for speed – Patriots and Packers are pretty fast teams, too, but they don’t seem to be affected by weather.

the concept of bear weather does not really have a basis in fact, for the reasons given by moon mullins above, though he is wrong about New Mexico weather – it gets cold here, at least where Urlacher played, just not as much precip.
it’d time we got over the concept of bear weather.

But it can always come back to life if they decide to change the way the entire team is built so they can play better in the snow.

and a good playing surface to succeed.

You can not expect your speedy defense to make plays when they are forced to react (on poor footing) to an offense that knows where it’s going. You can’t expect your offense that is based of timing and speed to be able to make consistent plays, especially when the Patriots have an almost 40 to 20 minutes advantage in time of possession.

All of this wouldn’t matter if the Bears offensive line was better.

when the snowstorm’s name is Ditka.

it always was. I remember when Joe Montana and the Niners played the Bears for the NFC championship in Soldier Field and everybody was saying Bear weather and all that. The Niners beat them then too.

I agree, it officially died against the 49ers in the 80s, and I think it should remain dead but i won’t. All the writers who today are mentioning it’s death or irrelevance, while they are correct, there is no doubt in my mind they will play it up again next year or this year if we were to get a homefield playoff game. The weather can help a team but I think, by and large, it doesn’t really matter. Both teams have to play in the conditions and in most cases, the better team will win.

Then I supposed poor weather could favor them. But, we are not the Pittsburgh Steelers. And, it’s a damn shame we aren’t, because we have such a wonderful tradition of football, that unfortunately has accounted for a ton of losing in the last 60 years. We should have multiple Lombardi trophies on our shelf, like the Steelers, Cowboys, 49ers, Patriots, and Packers do.

WHERE THE HELL IS DEZ CLARK?!!!!!!!????
why is one of our most consistent players languishing on the bench, actually, not even dressed for the game? who’s running this show?

We are a speed team, We have a better record away than we have at home which shows how horrid our field is.

When Walter and Neil Anderson left, since then we haven’t had a run game to be proud of for more than 2 years in a row

I grew up hoping for snow games, hoping for those physical, trenches games, sadly we aren’t built that way anymore.

Not every team is well-coached and disciplined like the Pats. While I don’t believe Lovie is to blame for this loss, I do think lack of adjustments by him (mostly on Welker) played a role. He was almost ten yards down the field on those stupid bubble screens; no defender was lined up across from him. It led me to believe that those plays were not the intended called play.

In regard to the weather, the Bears probably get blown out in any condition. I was at the game, and I didn’t see a way for them to win the game. Their only chance was to come up with those interceptions- that would’ve had a dramatic effect on the outcome of the game. Actually, that’s 14 points right there where the Pats don’t score.