It’s time.
For the last twenty years, writing over at DaBearsBlog.com, I have preached patience. Not because I’m a patient human being, mind you; my friends will all tell you that patience is not a virtue I possess. No, I have preached patience because it has always seemed like the Chicago Bears were in the middle of a process. The GM just had his first dinner with George. The coach had just closed on his lavish Lake Forest estate. The quarterback had just landed at O’Hare and learned how cold the winters can be in the Midwest. Nobody ever seemed settled, the program never seemed primed. The only plausible exception in the post-Lovie Smith era was 2019 – a team I predicted to win the Super Bowl if Mitch Trubisky took the next step. He did take the next step. He stepped right into oncoming traffic on Lake Shore Drive.
That’s over now.
The GM tore down the whole megillah and built a competitive roster. The quarterback, a star prospect, is entering his second year, a pivotal one in monitoring historical development. The new coach is projected to be a shining star in a league where those types of fellas don’t take time to start winning. Would it be easy to show patience and allow a season for this new trio to find their collective footing? Yes. Am I doing that? No. Why? Because I’m getting old, damn it, and I want to start enjoying my Sundays again.
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The 2025 Chicago Bears need to win. They need to win significantly more than they lose. And they need to be playing in the knockout tournament once the calendar shifts to 2026. Anything less – ANYTHING – will make this upcoming season a failure in my eyes. “Signs of improvement” are no longer enough in a league where championship windows open and close faster than a Turkish taqueria in Yerevan. (Apologies to former Monday Night Football commentator Dennis Miller.) “Signs of improvement” is just another way of saying “prolonged mediocrity” in the NFL.
And with the Chicago Bears, with a few exceptions over the last twenty years, it’s been prolonged mediocrity…at best. That has to end. These men have to end it. And they have to start in 2025.
@Barry the same reason Caleb went 1:01 and everyone thinks the reason Johnson came here is because he’s the most talented QB in the league?
Is there a prize, or am I just raising my hand for exercise?
@Krisanthony If Elon didn’t invent electric cars then how is he CEO of Tesla?
So true except it’s not, Musk bought a company that was developing electric cars with daddy’s money. Reminds me of someone else who calls himself a genus. The difference is that Musk made Tesla very successful while the genius bankrupted casinos, vine businesses, fake colleges, fake airlines and I can go on because the examples are so many
I don’t understand why Elon Musk is so unpopular, he invented the electric cars that liberals love so much
Real getting real!! Hopefully, everyone here (including Erik who won’t have to pump out 15 “articles” a day)will get around to writing thoughtful analysis and observations, and what they’ve actually seen and heard directly from around Halas Hall. Having read a number of blogs from other cities, colleges, teams, and writings in other areas, it is frustrating that a city like Chicago doesn’t have a wide range of good platforms. There doesn’t need to be a large number of competing platforms, we all know that it takes time and commitment to write, to research, to cover any subject, but we… Read more »