2011 year in review

It's just October and I'm doing a year in review? Well that happens when the first couple of weeks of the NBA season were cancelled, the Cubs were horrible, the Sox faded quickly and Ozzie pretty much sabotaged the final 3 months. Then last night in the Monday Night Football game we saw 2 teams searching for buttons, the Beats were searching frantically for the panic button, while Megatron, Matt Stafford, and Jahvid Best were pressing the Staples Easy Button.

I could go on about the other team and sports, but I really want to take some time to bid ado to the Bears and Chicago's football season. In a year in which there were pieces available to improve this team, the bears failed to deliver. In a season in which offenses are excelling, the Bears are going backwards. In a season in which you had to build off of the success from the year before, saw you biggest rival win the Super Bowl, and saw the team that finished last in your division for the last 15 years make huge strides, we stayed pat.

The only answer, and this would cash in the 2011 season, but the only answer right now is to fire Jerry Angelo and Mike Martz. Jerry needs to be held accountable for not doing his job. We have had the need for improvement along the offensive line, and they said goodbye to the lines best player. We sign a center to replace him, and that guy ends up playing guard, while we have a guard playing center. We have a Left tackle, who should be sitting on the bench learning how to play, not attempting to block the NFL's top pass rushers.

In the passing game, we get rid of our best red zone threat, and replace him with a blocking tight end. We allow Devin Aromashadu walk off, as well as Rasheed Davis, add an egomaniac, and a special teams role player.

If Chicago can run off a manager who won this cities first World Series in some sixty years, we need to run off a general manager who has had 3 tasks over the last 3 years. Get more protection for Jay Cutler, get an offensive target for Jay Cutler, and get a difference making pass rusher. He got us Julius Peppers, but we have failed on the other 2 objectives. In baseball a .333 success rate is great, in football it is not.

In leadership, as well as in sports, coaches and managers need to set their players up for success, and that means that sometimes you need to alter your scheme or approach. The Bears do not have the talent at offensive line, or at the receiver position to run Mike Martz' system, yet Martz cannot get past his own ego to create game plans which do showcase the Bears talents.

Over the past 3 years Jay Cutler has been the subject of a lot of negative press. He has been pointed to as not having the football IQ to be elite, he isn't good enough to be a franchise QB, he doesn't have the right attitude to lead a team, etc. I turn this around and say the Chicago Bears franchise does not have the proper football IQ to have an elite QB, they cannot put pieces around a guy to have a franchise QB, and they are too stuck on themselves to lead a fully competitive team on the field.

This puts 100% of the blame on the man who has failed time and time again. This puts 100% of the blame on the man who has not built an offensive line, this puts 100% of the blame on the guy who has not signed a playmaker, this puts 100% of the blame on the man who has not come through on a 1st round pick in his career, this puts 100% of the blame on Jerry Angelo.

The bears need to make these franchise changing decisions and changes now. You cannot wait till next week, you cannot wait till next month, you cannot wait till next year. There is a lot of season left, and I have more faith in this turning around under another GM and another Offensive Coordinator, than I do in them turning it around under the current guys. Either way, this team is not going to catch the Packers, and most likely will not catch the Lions, so if 3rd place is your destiny why not hand the reigns over to someone else?

Please listen to the fans pleas, get rid of these guys now. Do it before these two ruin next season a well.