Goodbye, Boys
Goodbye, Boys
Yesterday Has a Thousand Lives
January 10, 2021
Saints 21, Bears 9
The End of Something That Was Nothing
Allow us to begin with writing some things that must be written: the Bears did not have their best linebacker, Roquan Smith, and the Bears did not have their very talented, gutsy, and emerging rookie receiver Darnell Mooney.
Would the addition of Messrs. Smith and Mooney really have turned the tide in the Bears’ super wildcard playoff game against the Saints in New Orleans on Sunday? Hell yes!
The world is awful and shaky so let us have such optimism, such dreams, such delusions.
Let us now also write that Bears receiver Javon Wims dropped a certain touchdown pass that could have given the game a whole different narrative. And Bears tight end Cole Kmet was called for a terrible penalty that wasn’t a penalty at all, and Bears receiver Anthony Miller took off his helmet and put on his stupid, selfish hat and took a swing at a Saints player and got ejected.
These Bears truly did have a chance against the Saints. They did, brothers and sisters but all those mistakes, all those shortages, and all those Saints were too much for a team that has more heart than talent, more brawn than brains, and more questions than quarterbacks heading into the cold offseason after their 21-9 playoff loss.
The Bears need to fire General Manager Ryan Pace and replace him with someone who is committed to building through the draft and who understands that you don’t get a Super Bowl quarterback by waiting around for a few years and then throwing away draft picks. You get a Super Bowl quarterback by being honest each and every season about the quarterback you have and drafting a quarterback every damn year until you are the one at the end of the season hoisting the trophy.
The Bears need to fire head coach Matt Nagy and defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano. The Bears need to study the Packers, the Steelers, the Patriots, the Ravens, the Seahawks, the Chiefs, Apple, Google, George Clooney, and Darth Vader and be just like them.
The pandemic will be over, the fans will be back, the nation will regain its sanity. The Bears have good young players. The Bears have tomorrow. It’s all they have. --TK
Sunday, January 10, 2021