I don’t understand how so many teams accidentally stumble across their franchise QBs and yet the bears can’t seem to make anything work. The niners literally managed to pick a better QB than we have ever had with the last pick in the draft. I understand that this team is being held back by coaching but Jesus Christ how is Jordan love already outperforming Justin fields when this was supposed to be his breakout year. Being a bears fan is never ending pain 😔
They are a very poorly run organization. Even if they found “the guy” we’d never know because the staff they hire would probably be incapable of developing them or building an offense that fits their skillset.
The best thing anyone can do is stop watching. Fucking with their money is the only thing ownership will respond to.
Jordan Love still sucks. He’s had a couple good games and a couple huge wins but seriously we all gotta chill here. He’s played terribly in other games, and we judge guys by their entire body of work.
49ers are a bad comparison. You could put Bagent on that team and they would light it up. Top 10 o-line, McCaffrey, Aiyuk, Deebo, Kittle, and Shanahan calling plays? C’mon.
Yeah we suck, we suck because we don’t hire offensive coordinators that actually do shit as head coaches, and instead hire guys like Trestman who wasn’t even coaching in the NFL at the time, and Nagy who rides Reid’s coattails. Then we see that as a failure and hire d coordinators to do it. Then draft QBs who clearly need to learn the position, don’t teach them how to play in the NFL, and then compensate by leaning too much on flawed ideas like QB runs or screens to get anything out of them at all
We’ll stop sucking when we actually understand that the game is fast and these guys need to learn, and we need to pace ourselves and stop trying to run to the finish line before we’ve even started. Trubisky failed because he was forced to lead a team that was far too good with a coach that needed a Brady or Manning to understand his scheme, and Fields is failing because instead of developing his game, we let him loose last year, which was exciting but terrible for his development, and now we’re trying to instill fundamentals too late.
God I sure hope he sucks, I live in Wisconsin and I can’t handle another 10 years of the packers being good! 🥲 And you’re right the niners aren’t really a fair comparison and I bet if they drafted Fields he would be doing a million times better over there, it’s just frustrating that we can’t seem to ever develop QBs. Bears really are where QBs come to die. We manage to have really good defenses like in 2018, but I just want a competent offense that doesn’t have to win a game on 4 fields goals. Even wanting an average offense (one that doesn’t throw 3 screens in a row) feels like I’m asking too much from the bears.
Love’s looked fairly good recently IMO, and he’s been looking fairly good for a few weeks now. First few games I thought he was bad but capitalizing on easy stuff. I’m far from “omg HOF qb 3” but as of late, if I’m the Packers I’m not really regretting that pseudo fifth year option they gave him either. Obviously that could all change in the next couple weeks but still. I’m not testing our luck by trashing him just to see him whoop our ass for a decade.
Short cynical Answer: the ownership of the chicago bears probably want to see their team win, but if the money rolls in then they’re content with keeping whatever failure is running the front office.
Less short answer: the bears for some reason haven’t realized teams that are successful for long periods of time have a stable GOOD or GREAT qb at the helm. They like to keep the running game/defense as their main priority throughout history, for which they’ve been pretty successful. But the bears have settled for mediocre qbs like Rex, trub, and even smoking jay for long periods of time. I realllyyy hope we let go of Justin, send him somewhere new and draft a qb. We just have to keep on shooting unfortunately.
Hopefully one day we will get a 4000 yard passer 😭
It’s starts at the top. This organization let Ted Phillips run the show and he produced nothing but mediocre results, if your ownership is ok with that then there is no accountability, and what you see is what you get.
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It’s a combination of so many factors but chief amongst them has to be our inability to find success at the quarterback position. Obvious answer, but our track record of mediocrity there is stunning.
And I’m right there with you. This team can be frustrating beyond measure. What keeps me going is the knowledge that we’ve been so close on multiple occasions (2007 Bowl, 2010 NFCC game, 2018 DD) which is enough to keep me hopefull amid the disappointment. Going on twenty-five years of die-hard dedication has had more valleys than peaks but the joy of the latter makes it all worth while.
Anyway I’m rambling and insanely tired, so I’ll close by saying you’re not alone brother. Hang in there, our time will come. Bear down.