week 2.5 bearsing

to me, it's flagrantly obvious that the bears problems start all the
way at the top: ownership. I don't know where the buck stopped when
people like jim finks or bill tobin were brought in, however it's
clear to me that nowadays that this organization is fundamentally
flawed.

whoever is hiring the people who hires the football people is hiring
the wrong people. whoever hires the GMs is hiring people who clearly
can not consistently identify super-bowl-caliber talent in players.
this causes the team to have a bunch of bums, most notably at the
quarterback position, and then this causes the bears to always have
holes comprised of full-on bad at numerous positions.

look at this administration: as doug and OB often say, jerry angelo
probably wouldn't get another GM job in the NFL if he were to lose his
gig with the bears. with the exception of 2005-2006, this
angelo/lovie administration has been a back-n-forth year-to-year
jekyll and hyde situation. one year they'll be good enough to make
the playoffs, perhaps even make a run to a conference title game or a
super bowl, but then everyone involved will start to believe that
they're the smartest team in the league and they'll rest on their
laurels, that being that they've got a team that will perennially
contend for championships. they don't address the obvious flaws that
their "quality" team had, nor do they seemingly do anything proactive
in terms of stocking the team full of depth that will ensure a
veritable array of shark's-teeth-type-replaceability at the skill
positions. jerry angelo and lovie smith both know that having a
quality defensive line is the key to running the cover-2 defense,
therefore that's the position that they'll always go out of their way
to draft players for, believing that an eclectic combination of lovie
and rod marinelli are so damn good at their jobs that they can turn
any schmuck who jumps out of a pool into a fearsome football force.
it's obvious to me that jerry angelo believed that he solved ~90% of
the team's problems when he went and acquired jay cutler, likely
assuming that once he had a bonafide elite franchise type quarterback
that it didn't matter who's blocking for him or who's going to catch
the ball: he's a franchise quarterback, so he obviously excretes magic
pixie dust that enchants everyone around him to play better.

invariably, after they go into the next season puffing their chests
and acting smug and egotistical, they have a sub-.500 season and then
they begin to freak out and worry about their own job security. this
causes jerry to do things like immediately go out and grab a muhsin
muhammad (coming off of a ~14TD career year season) or a julius
peppers (beast) and then make a few other moves to address some of the
things that went horribly wrong last year. from that point, lovie
seems to be a good quality coach who can take mediocre talent and put
them in a position to play solid NFL defense, which combined with some
flashes of talent on offense then enable the bears to go and have a
"magical" season like 2001 or 2006 or 2010, which leads everyone
involved to believe that they're truly amongst the elite teams in the
NFL, thus causing them to repeat the cycle where they go into the next
season with the puffed-out-chests confident that they're smarter than
95% of the league, and this is why they'll go and draft a redshirt
project like stephen paea at DT as opposed to going out and getting a
wide receiver who can catch the damn ball. when the bears are coming
off of a good season, they often focus on doing the things that their
gut tells them to do (i.e. MORE DEFENSIVE LINEMEN NO MATTER THE
COST!!!) as opposed to what they ought to be doing (amassing an armada
of weaponry around jay cutler which provides the foundation of a
perennial top-15 offense for the next ~5 years)

what's really sad and bothersome to me is that i see the bears
absolutely wasting the window afforded to them by the prime of jay
cutler's career. even jerry knew that bringing in mike martz was a
horrible idea: martz is so rigid and smarmy in his ways that he
refuses to let cutler audible or change plays... he doesn't call a
bunch of bootlegs or plays that would play to jay cutler's strengths,
which i equate more to childhood afterschool freeform football than
rigid supercomplicated post-don-coryell offense that MUST BE EXECUTED
AS IT IS DRAWN UP, FOR IT IS THE WORD OF FOOTBALL GOD (amen). i think
that the bears would thrive if jay were given an offense that was more
dynamic in its construction and allowed him to play to his strengths
as a mobile quarterback who always believes he can make a play even
when the odds are stacked against him... instead, he's being told that
he has to be a quarterbacking robot by a guy who's so full of himself
that it takes him numerous examples of near-total failure to finally
relent and start calling plays that allow his offense to be
productive, as opposed to a perpetual game of "smear the queer" where
jay's running for his life so damned much that i'm legitimately
worried that it's going to stunt his development as a quarterback and
rob us of the chance to see the bears actually have a bigtime
you-win-because-you-have-that-guy type quarterback.

all in all, i reckon i'm set for a lifetime of suffering as a bears
fan cuz the whole damn organ-I-zation is just so damn goofy weird and
bad that everyone in a position of power to hire and fire is going to
hire people who make the wrong moves/hires and that will trickle all
the way down to the product on the field, which is flagrantly obvious
when jay cutler is getting hit so hard and so often that it almost
immediately transcends the realm of fun-bad and becomes merely sad...
downright sad.

that's my two cents

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