Happy Holidays, You Weird Idiots
Happy Holidays, You Weird Idiots
Believing in Bearland
December 27, 2020
Bears 41, Jaguars 17
The Christmas Crusade
The Chicago Bears won their third straight on Sunday, topping the Jaguars, 41-17 in Jacksonville which puts them, for now, in the seventh and final playoff spot in the NFC.
In other news, Santa Claus is real, and he is bringing each of us $600 and promises to step kicking us in the nuts.
In a narrative as peculiar as 2020 itself, the Bears started 5-1 but weren’t very good, lost six straight while being very bad, and have now taken three in a row while being a lot better and have given us a strange trickle of hope.
The Bears did something positively unBearlike on Sunday, scoring 21 points in the third quarter to blow up what had been a disturbingly close game. The Bears normally don’t even get 21 yards in a quarter. Yes, Jacksonville is bad, but they got pride, and played OK for the first half but then the Bears did what teams are supposed to do to bad teams: kick the shit out of them.
Actually, the Jaguars are the true winners. With this defeat and the Jets’ victory over the Browns, Jacksonville is assured of the top pick in the draft. Hello, Trevor Lawrence.
The Bears ran the ball 33 times, passed 36 times, and only turned the ball over once. Yes, that one turnover was an extremely disturbing Mitch Trubisky interception in the endzone, the second straight week he has done that. But also for the second straight week, that was about all Mitch did wrong so while we need more than baby steps at the end of a fourth season, the baby at least ain’t crappin’ the diaper like it used to.
The Bears have played their best two games the past two weeks. They now face the Green Bay Packers in Chicago and will reach the COVID-expanded postseason with a win or another loss by the Arizona Cardinals. We so go Cardinals. We say we are glad the Packers can still get the top seed so they’ll be fightin’ hard. We say let’s put these Bears to the test and see if this three-game streak means anything at all.
We say Christmas was fun but New Year’s is when we find out who we are going to be.--TK
Sunday, December 27, 2020