The Bears Den: September 8th, 2010 Edition

Because win or lose, you don’t know where this team is at. The Green Bay game exposed our flaws last year. As long as the players keep their heads from inflating, we’ll be good.

I absolutely agree with this and have so for the past two seasons.

One can not fire Lovie Smith and NOT see that his success was marred in the ineptitude of awful draft choices and bad personnel decisions. I’ve always asked the Lovie-bashers, “How does a guy take a team with no offense and a rookie QB to the playoffs in 2005, win COY, Superbowl in 2006— then become the most hated guy in town?”

Up until this past season, no one has ever questioned Angelo’s picks. It used to make me sick to hear the oft used phrase: “WEll, he has late round success with his best player available method.”

No he didn’t!

Angelo passed over sure-talent to get the high risk pick and save a few bucks.

I can not think that Lovie Smith would have wanted to sit back for SOOO many years with the a.) secondary being as inept as it has been for the past three years b.) offense being as inconsistent as it was (2008 I can’t even say Angelo TRIED to bring some talent in to win) and c.) draft picks being so undervalued and wasted.

Lovie has his flaws— believe you me— but to say that the root of the Bears problems have been him is just so misguided.

PHEW!… Sorry, had to vent there.

Angelo really upsets me though. He has destroyed my team and messed up my Sunday’s for far too long.

I certainly hope she’s not too much of a distraction, but sometimes a relationship can have a positive influence on a player. One can only hope. It certainly can’t be worse than constantly going out drinking all night.

I think a little “stinky on the hang down” will be a good thing for Jay. Maybe it’s what he needs to become a elite QB.

This statement has so much wrong with it…

“We spent a goodly amount of money with offensive linemen,” Angelo said Monday night in a live broadcast on WBBM-AM 780 from the Walter Payton Center. "Fred Miller, Ruben Brown, John Tait, those are just a few guys we went out aggressively on most of them and we had competition for their services. What we want to do, and we’d like to do it at every position if we can, bring players in, young players and develop them. That is what we are doing now with our offensive line. We have a good nucleus of young offensive linemen and coach Tice who came in from the outside, brand new, looked at them. He could have said, ‘Jerry, we need to bring in a couple of veterans.’ He said, ‘Jerry, I want to work with this young line. I like what I see.’

… But, the fact that he highlights the capital he spent on FAs in 2004 and 2005 in 2010 makes me shake my head in disbelief.

I’m glad that he is taking a more holistic approach with the team needs, but I would have appreciated him saying that he “goofed” as Ted Phillips admitted in his interview with ESPN 1000 yesterday.

I can’t remember ever seeing him make a play on defense. He’s a fine special teams player but should never be on the field with the first team defense.

finally spoke for Bears fans for once. Usually I don’t think sports writers do the best of writing what the fans think/feel but in this case he hit it right on the head. Phillips, Angelo and Smith have all tied themselves together and I think they should all have to sink or swim together. Forbes has pointed out how much this team is mismanaged and while some of that starts at the ownership, a lot of it comes down to Phillips, onto JA and then spills onto the field with Lovie.

Oh and can someone tell me where Phillips got his research that says FieldTurf causes more injures than crappy natural grass? I have a hard time believing that the majority of the NFL would play on a “risky” surface.

If the Bears could field a defense of 11 Julius Peppers, it’d be amazing.

It’d be amazing all right… to watch the other teams consistently mess themselves and then refuse to take the field.