Sean Sullivan was merely once just a frequent commenter before joining Blog Down. See people, dreams do come true.

Truth be told, without a few timely missed field goals by the Steelers and Seahawks, the Bears are probably 1-5. After that Bengals game, it wasn’t really that hard to envision them as a 1-5 team. The Bears may turn this season around and make the playoffs, but at this point the team just doesn’t look very good and I blame Jerry Angelo.

It’s bad enough to get beat like the Bears did on Sunday, it is however worse to get beat like that by your former draft picks. I know that some of you may say that it’s easy to second guess now, but I never believed the Bears should have released Cedric Benson. Successful NFL franchises just don’t release their fourth overall picks for no compensation unless they are a complete bust and Benson wasn’t.

When it was all said and done, he still averaged almost 4 yards a carry as a Bear and showed glimpses. It was the fact that he didn’t immediately remind us of Walter or Gale; that is the neighborhood his expectations had seemed to be approaching in Chicago, which is obviously unrealistic for any player, especially one that is still developing.

Some of you may also point to the trouble with the law as the reason for Benson’s departure, but that is bogus because if he had been leading the league in rushing, he never would have been released. It should either make you laugh or cry that both Cedric Benson and Thomas Jones are first and fourth, respectively, in the league in rushing after Week 7. I love Matt Forte, but it’s hard to improve an entire roster when you have to keep using high draft picks on running backs.

In the case of the other familiar face on the Bengals, Tank Johnson, I couldn’t believe when the Bears released him before even finding out whether he was driving over the legal limit, which he wasn’t. So we essentially released a solid defensive tackle that was an integral part of our Super Bowl run for being pulled over and breaking no laws.

I never got the point of releasing players after they make mistakes, the NFL has rules in place to discipline players. If the NFL declares that a player has paid their dues, then it makes no sense to judge them from your own moral pedestal and release a good player, so that they can just be signed by another team. Especially when we all know that any franchise’s morals will always take a back seat to supreme talent that puts asses in the seats.

I don’t really count the Cutler trade being a positive for Angelo because it was such a no-brainer. Every GM in the league who needed a QB was after Cutler when they smelled blood in the Denver water. The point is that Jerry Angelo has continued to make bad decisions and ignore glaring roster problems, which resulted in that display of hot garbage on the field Sunday. We need serious help in the secondary, receiving core, and offensive line.

In the offseason during the free agent period, obvious difference makers in those areas changed teams, while Jerry was deciding what random players to waste a draft picks on. Where are you now, Dan Bazuin? Because yourself, Henry Melton, and all Angelo’s other left field selections should get together sometime. While boom or bust draft picks may be intriguing and fun, Jerry, you can’t gamble like that when there are obvious needs to be addressed. Since Angelo’s tenure began in 2001, only seven of 16 first and second-round draft selections are still on the roster. From those 16 players, only two have ever been to a Pro Bowl. It seems that a mouth-breathing chimp could have picked draft choices with that accuracy, or at least I could have.

It’s not to say the Bears were necessarily wrong for releasing different players, but then you need to do a better job of evaluating a potential draftee’s personal profile before you draft them. With that said though, then you need to do a better job of evaluating a potential draftee’s personal profile before you draft them, or quite frankly, don’t act so surprised when you give them millions of dollars and more problems arise. If you look back at Benson’s collegiate career–both on and off the field–there should have been no surprises there, as he was already arrested twice while at Texas. So as I said before, successful franchises just don’t throw away first and second-round picks to get nothing in return. I’m saying it twice, so hopefully Jerry reads this and it resonates.

I didn’t really want to sit here and be so negative, but after that ridiculous showing on Sunday it doesn’t seem like many fans are feeling too positive right now. Unfortunately, there aren’t many moves the Bears can make at this point in the season. Hopefully things turn around and we can have a nice rebound game against a bad Cleveland team and go from there. But when everyone spends the entire offseason questioning the roster and the Bears just get thoroughly embarrassed like they did against a good-but-not-great Bengals team, then I think you have to blame Jerry.

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