In Which I Nearly Explode
To piggy back off of what Shea’s last post stated, I believe the Bears last drive possession of the football was the season in review. If you only caught those four plays at the end of the game, you were able to see exactly how the 2009 season has gone for our Bears. These four plays nearly cost me my sanity.
An aside: who else feels like that poor guy in the picture?
So the Bears went into their ‘bye’ week at 3-1; we were feeling pretty good about ourselves, we beat the Steelers (not looking so good anymore) and escaped from Seattle with a win. We had made some progress and had some momentum. First play of the final Bears possession was a seven yard completion to Johnny Knox. Not great, but a decent way to start off. What followed next was an implosion against the Cardinals, Bengals and Falcons. The second play of the ‘drive’ with no timeouts was a sack for -8 yards. Then a ‘get healthy’ win over a train-wreck Cleveland team (pot calling the kettle black?). Back to the game: another 7 yard completion to Johnny Knox. OK, so fourth and four deep in our own territory; things aren’t looking good but we have a sliver of life left.
Until … in what I can only describe as Perfect Fucking Irony, a member of the offensive line effectively kills any hope of giving us a chance to possibly think about pulling this one out. The part of our team that has continued to destroy us (and our quarterback) shows up when we least need them to. Our own CENTER gets a false start penalty to put us in the dreaded fourth-and-longer-than-four situation, which, as we’ve seen, is nearly impossible for the Bears to overcome. You might as well chalk up this game and the second half of the Rams game to this play. So in a nutshell: complete pass, sack, complete pass, penalty, incomplete pass, game over. Four plays totaling one yard over a minute span. Three steps forward and six steps back.
(&#^$)(&^#($*)!(&^#($&^))%. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did anyone else watching this not completely lose their shit??? How do you take a sack there?? How does a former Pro-Bowl center get a false start penalty??? HOW?? Do that in the first fucking quarter since we didn’t show up anyway until the late second, but not at the end of the game. Come on!!! Give me some hope instead of taking my beloved poodle and slitting his throat in front of my face. It’s like the Bears Brain Trust is a middle school bully who repeatedly kicks me (or us) in the crotch over and over and over again because they are bigger than me and both of their testicles have already descended. And I/we are powerless to stop them.
/stares forlornly into the grayness of Lake Michigan contemplating life and death
