Bears v. Packers 2011 ver. 1

In the seasonal series that is always overbilled, yet hardly ever holds up to expectations, the Green Bay Packers once again showed the world the Bears have a very long way to go to be considered an elite franchise. The Packers, with the perfect amount of veteran and youth. Front office leadership who understands the need to prepare for today and in the future. Finally players on field that have extremely high skill levels, understand their roles, and deliver perfectly flawless performances on field.

Then we have the Chicago Bears. The pure definition of idiorocity (not sure I know the definition of that but I hope you get the picture). The Chicago Bears have littered the field with old and older players. If they have a younger player on the field, he is underskilled or undisciplined. The Bears have seemed to take the Chicago Cubs approach to fielding a team, toss a couple of higher paid stars (or semi-stars) throw some hot garbage around them, ensure you don't run out of beer and count your millions. When you ask Bears front office personell what their long term plans are they reply, "we look at things one week at a time." When asked what are your seasons goals they reply, "to beat the Green Bay Packers." Most premier franchises will have plans, most premier franchises want to win the Super Bowl, most premier franchises have won the Super Bowl in the last 10 years. Sure the Bears made it to the Super Bowl, have won divisions, and even contended the eventual Super Bowl Champs last season, but the sky sure does seem to be falling on this franchise.

We have a mid-30's linebacker who is the heart and soul of the team. We have another Pro-Bowl linebacker who demands to be out by next season. We have a possibly treat QB with a classic gunslinger mentality with no weapons and no one to block for him. We have a potential Pro Bowl running back, with an Offensive Coordinator that gives up on running as soon as the other team scores. We have 4 head coaches that don't know how to teach and motivate a team. And our special teams is second to none, but the NFL has changed rules to make it ineffective.

So while we watch Aaron Rodgers hoist Lombardi trophies, watch Tom Brady break passing records, and watch the Steelers do what we're suppose to do, only a lot better, we still hope for a ball bouncing our way, refs giving us a call, or a receiver that after he makes q game winning catch let's go of the ball just a bit too soon. All our franchises have legitimate football plans, we'll just keep holding our rabbits foot.