Somedays I wonder why I continue to put up with this franchise. This past Thanksgiving was one of those days, as I watched the Bears put together one of the most all-around awful performances I've ever seen on a professional football field, getting dominated by the hapless Dallas Cowboys 21-7. It was just an absolutely brutal game to sit and watch, and it looks like management finally realized that something had to be done.
Jeff George is different from past Bears quarterbacks. He's got all the talent in the world; he just hasn't been able to bring it all together to become the franchise QB that so many other teams thought he would. He has been labeled a "locker room cancer" more than once in his career, but when your favorite team's only alternatives are the consistently terrible Jonathan Quinn and the unproven Chad Hutchinson, I can only be grateful that they're trying something to spark the offense. I drafted the following letter to Bears' Offensive Coordinator Terry Shea not long after the disaster that was Thursday's game:
Dear Terry Shea,
Where do I start? News flash, Terry! Screen passes don't work when you run one on every other fucking down. A good screen pass uses the element of surprise and has to be set up beforehand by good playcalling, but apparently an "offensive guru" like yourself can't even understand basic fundamentals such as that. Maybe you were so successful running an offense back in KC, because...oh, I don't know...you had Trent Green throwing screen passes to Priest Holmes, who would then proceed to follow the blocks of the best offensive line in all of football? Just a hunch! What's even worse is that you're more afraid than ever to throw the ball deep and stretch the field, which absolutely kills any semblance of a running game. Should Bears fans just start calling you John Shoop Jr? Quinn can't even throw a five yard pass without being picked off, so you may as well let him throw a few downfield, since he's going to get intercepted anyway. Oh, and the fact that Jonathan Quinn was hand-picked by you as a capable backup is probably the single biggest failure I've ever seen in terms of personnel evaluation in all my years of watching football. And as a Bears fan, I've seen about a million of those blunders. So fuck you, Terry Shea. Get your act together or get the fuck out.
Love,
Me
I am betting we get two games with Hutchinson running the offense before George comes in and starts against the Houston Texans on December 19th.
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