Joshua Edwards
Jerry Angelo could be retiring. (Promise, Jerry?)
Mike Martz is making up rumors a college in the desert wants him to obfuscate their offense next year. Talk about hallucinations.
And Cutler, Forte and Knox, arguably the top players in the Bears offense, are all down with injuries.
Moreover, the Bears have nothing left to play for, facing the NFC’s top-seed-no-matter-what in Green Bay, before finishing in Minneapolis against the NFC’s worst-team-no-matter-what.
Fitting ending for a Chicago team going-nowhere-no-matter-what.
Should the Bears be focused on 2012?
Is Caleb Hanie still throwing interceptions to wide open Seahawks?
Is Josh McCown the frantic waving of a white flag?
Should Bears fans find something else to watch in three weeks?
Seems like it.
Bob Warja
This s it time for the Bears to focus on 2012? Hell, it’s long been time for that to happen. Once Jay Cutler went down, we did have a glimmer of hope based on Caleb Hanie’s play during the NFC Championship game and the fact that the Bears were 7-3 with a favorable schedule.
But ever since they lost last week, any reasonable hopes of the playoffs went out the window for me. That said, focusing on 2012 doesn’t mean a complete rebuild. In fact, if Cutler had not gotten injured, the Bears would likely have made the playoffs. The changes they need will have to come from free agency because they are a team ready to win next season assuming Cutler and Matt Forte are healthy. But they had better get a proven backup QB like Kyle Orton and a solid wide receiver.
Aliko Carter
Caleb Hanie cannot be a viable backup quarterback. With the Lions winning, the Bears’ playoff hopes took another big hit today. At 7-7, they don’t deserve to be a playoff team anyway. They have a lot of questions to answer, not least of which is injuries to many of their starters. Should they push Forte or insure his body for the future? And then there’s Sam Hurd… I think it’s time for the Bears to get their house in order so that 2012 can be a banner year in Chicago. They have all the pieces as long as they stay healthy.
Source: Bleacher Report
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