Are the Bears Falling Apart Before Our Very Eyes?
The Bears Are Having a Tough Season With a 4-12 Record and 10 Consecutive Losses to Date
Only a Miracle Can Save the Bears from the Abyss
The Chicago Bears news isn’t pretty, especially after the team dropped their 10th straight game in a lackluster Thursday night affair with the Seattle Seahawks. The team is broken, but the question is, can it be fixed?
Bumbling Bears
In April, the Bears selected who they believed would be the face of the franchise for the next decade with the No. 1 overall pick in the league’s annual meat market known as the NFL Draft.
However, instead of a transformation, this team has been an abomination this season. Rookie quarterback Caleb Williams’ stats of 19 touchdowns, 6 interceptions, and 3,393 passing yards, to go along with 479 rushing yards on a completion rate of nearly 62%, are not nearly as disastrous as the Bears’ 10-game losing streak.
But over his 16 NFL games, it’s his league-leading 67 sacks that have made NFL news and remain a major concern. His offensive line is aptly named, as it is most definitely offensive, employing the matador defense to perfection. Every time they face a pass rush, you can hear a collective “Ole!” from Chicago’s big uglies in the trenches. And who pays the price? You guessed it, Caleb Williams, and he’s feeling the heat.
Can we stop posting Caleb Williams’ surface stats?
Those have been padded in garbage time.
It’s been a disappointing season.
I’m willing to give Caleb a mulligan due to poor coaching, but let’s not pretend that he’s been better than expected by looking at the box score.
— Frank Ammirante (@FAmmiranteTFJ) December 26, 2024
Nobody would have forecasted a baseball score in their NFL game predictions regarding Chicago’s 6-3 loss in a Thursday night snoozefest. But afterward, Williams faced the media and was asked about the Bears’ trials and tribulations.
FINAL: The @Seahawks win the TNF finale #SEAvsCHI pic.twitter.com/WGW9x8FdH6
— NFL (@NFL) December 27, 2024
“I’ve only been here for–it’s my first year, so … Uh, their frustrations go, you know, way longer back than I have been here,” Williams said after the loss.
“My job is to go out there and win games, and, you know, we don’t focus on the outside noise. The fans are gonna cheer and maybe boo sometimes. You can’t react to that. It’s not something we react to.
“We have a job to do and sometimes, you don’t do so well in the job some days. And some days you’re pretty consistent, some days you play a great game like that.”
Caleb Williams on Chicago Bears fans booing at Soldier Field:
“Their frustrations go way longer back than, you know, I’ve been here. My job is to go out there and win games.”
pic.twitter.com/AbrLwrCHgl— Dave (@dave_bfr) December 27, 2024
I’ve got news for you, Caleb: the fans aren’t cheering, and there’s little doubt you’d love a ticket out of the Windy City if you had your druthers. But all those sacks aren’t exclusively on your odious offensive line. You need to make smarter and more decisive choices. Your line blows, so you might want to get rid of the ball a helluva lot quicker than you have been.
Sell the Team!
Bears fans are at their breaking point. This is one of the oldest and most storied franchises in the league, and they haven’t won a Super Bowl since the season of 1985. Older Bears fans remember the Super Bowl Shuffle, Sweetness, the Fridge, and bat-sh*t crazy Jim McMahon, who’s never seen without his shades.
But this iteration is neither as colorful nor nearly as talented, and they’re not alone, as no Bears’ team has come close to that championship edition that boasted perhaps the greatest defense in the history of the league.
If we take a quick look back, the Bears have only had one really good team (2018) over the last 14 years. And that has prompted fans to call for the McCaskey’s to sell the team. That request has fallen on deaf ears, but it’s a sentiment shared by WWE superstar and Chicago’s own CM Punk.
🚨VIDEO: #BEARS FANS ARE CHANTING “SELL THE TEAM – SELL THE TEAM” IN SOLDIER STADIUM.
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Chicago is done with the McCaskey family.pic.twitter.com/menulOYern
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) December 27, 2024
“Nothing’s gonna change until the McCaskeys sell the team,” Punk proclaimed. “I’ve been there. Oh, Lovie Smith’s going to change the Bears. Oh, [Mitch] Trubisky’s going to change the Bears. And then we trade up and lose [Patrick] Mahomes… Mahomes right now, he’d be on the Bears.”
“Nothing’s gonna change until the McCaskeys sell the team.”
CM Punk sounds off on #Bears ownership on the Netflix pregame show. pic.twitter.com/iD6pNZuz9h
— Jacob Infante (@jacobinfante24) December 25, 2024
Perhaps the worst part of this season is that the mental and physical toll on Caleb Williams may linger and ultimately derail what could have been a stellar career.
