Bears Fans Need Yoga Classes And Junk
OK, it was one preseason game. As I was driving home from Michigan late Sunday night, I was listening to sports talk radio because that’s what keeps me awake on the road dutiful sports bloggers do. Was Jay Cutler impressive? Hardly. Did the secondary show they could cover anyone? They did not. (Buffalo QB’s were a combined 28/38… vomit). Again, it’s one preseason game. I realize that the media has more drama queens than a 8th grade dance and they/we usually lead the charge to rushed judgment, but while typing this half naked I am taking a stand!! /checks if pants are still on… they are.
There are things to work on, of course, but as this is the preseason, there is time to work on these things. As one astute caller pointed out, the preseason games, especially the first one, is used primarily for talent evaluation; who is gonna get cut and who stays on to see the second preseason game. The outcome of the game is really secondary to evaluating who could possibly contribute when it matters, and who gets to watch football with Cheetos-stained fingers.
It’s very amusing, yet very irksome to me, how quickly so many people are to jump all over a Bears player or coach and then write off the team based on four series’ in Week One of the preseason. One caller went as far as to say that he had completely given up on Jay Cutler! Sir, die in a fire. Who do you propose we put out there, Caleb Hanie??? Brett “three picks and a fumble” Basanez??? Jesus, Mary and Joseph, it’s an exhibition game!!! It’s the first live action some of these guys have seen since December; it’s not going to be pretty. If Cutler is still forcing throws and underthrowing receivers in the last preseason game, then we can be justified in torching his house and throwing salt on the soil, but not now.
Let’s relax and enjoy the fact that these games don’t matter at all. We’ll see what we have at the positions and cut the guys that suck the most, and in the secondary’s case, keep the guys that will get paid to get train wrecked by Anquan Boldin et al. It’s way too early to start freaking out about the 2009 Bears. Take some Xanax, drink a few Goose Islands and hold off from jumping out of the Hancock Building… at least until mid-September.
