Looking Back on the Chicago Bears 2011
With football starting up again — thank God — it should be fun to revisit A Quick Rant About the State of the Chicago Bears 2011, my post-season wrap from a few months ago, which is mostly about the horror show that is the Bears’ leadership team: Mike McCaskey, Ted Phillips, Jerry Angelo, and Lovie Smith.
Here’s part of it:
Let’s talk about the offensive line situation. Even if we were to ignore most of the above, and just focus in on this one thing, it is enough to fire Angelo and Smith: teams that win Super Bowls don’t go 7 years without drafting and/or developing at least one solid, dependable, durable offensive lineman. Usually two or three. Because these guys are important, and don’t last forever, and injuries happen, and if you want to be good year after year, you have to prioritize on this. You can’t prioritize on everything else but that, and then wait to see which rejects from other teams you can sign for cheap, and go to training camp with that and talk about winning Super Bowls. Because that is just idiotic, and every football fan knows it.
And if I can figure this out for free, how come Angelo and Smith can’t figure it out with their multi-million dollar salaries? Smith has to coach these guys, and if they kinda suck, then it makes him look bad, but does he do anything about it and threaten to leave, or go over Angelo’s head and demand Angelo be fired? Of course not, because he is an affirmative action hire, a Rooney rule benefactor, who would prefer not to start asking questions he won’t like the answers to. So he takes the old, slow, untalented offensive line that Angelo gives him every year, and tries to build a running game and an offense around it. Good luck with that.
Someday, I hope to have real football ownership in this town again.
