It’s Time For The Chicago Bears To Rebuild. Again.

In the unlikely event that the McCaskey family is reading this, I hope to make one thing very clear before they redirect their attention to much more important matters. I think I speak for all Bears fans when I say the following: blow it up, tear it all down, and prevent us from wasting three hours of our Sundays watching that.

“That”, of course, is the Bears embarrassing 41–10 loss (because I don’t do garbage time) to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football, a loss eerily reminiscent of the 55–14 shellacking that took place a mere six years ago — same time, same place, same opponent, and hopefully, same consequences. Games like last night signify both years of quarterback purgatory and complete mismanagement of a football team — both of which are not “Un-Bearsian” by any stretch of the imagination — and only have one way out: tearing it all down.

Yes, that means trading away every single player on this so-called “Super Bowl defense” — that’s what the “experts” called them before Aaron Rodgers and Co. ran circles around them — because the truth of the matter is that Ryan Pace has completely built this team upside down. Whatever you need in a football team in 2020, Pace has done the exact opposite. Superstar quarterback? Mitchell Trubisky, baby! Stalwarts along the offensive line? Ha! Just pay Germain Ifedi a million bucks to start for us. Solid weapons? Anthony Miller does the LeBron pregame chalk ritual — except with butter. Allen Robinson is a #2 receiver playing as the #1. Darnell Mooney looks promising, but likely won’t develop into a #1. The point is, do you really trust Ryan Pace to retool the whole offense? The guy is incapable of getting just the quarterback position right.

Now to Matt Nagy. Matt Nagy has completely mismanaged Mitchell Trubisky in every way possible. In 2018, he was brought to be a quarterback guru — offense was his specialty! There’s no doubt that he helped Mitch massively that season, but since then he has thrown everything Mitch does well out the window and tried to pound the square peg into the round hole. Nagy was hired to make Mitch a superstar and instead threw him out with the bathwater for Nick Foles, who has never done it as the clear-cut starter. Speaking of Foles, it is universally known that Matt Nagy believed he was the perfect guy to run the offense, and he looked terrible. At what point do we stop blaming the quarterback play before we realize that when Pace leaves Halas Hall, Nagy must be right alongside him?

If the Bears truly want to reach their ultimate goal (which, with the McCaskey’s, who knows how much they even care about winning Super Bowls), the best thing for the immediate future is to be irrelevant. Be the laughingstock of the NFL once again. Be an absolute joke from the outside. But internally, understand that you are the NFL’s version of the Oklahoma City Thunder: trade all your assets (because you do have a ton), accumulate cap space and draft picks, and get somebody who can nail one pick after another.

The Bears may very well try running it back in 2021, but with depreciating assets, cap hell, and the walls of mediocrity surrounding them at every turn, I think we all know the result that would bring.

So instead of exemplifying insanity, commit to being terrible. Commit to a few seasons of 2–14, but start freeing up cap space now. Start accumulating assets now. Start building for 2025 now. And just pray that in one of these seasons — whether it be 2021, 2022, 2023, or whenever the new regime decides to select our savior — you finally get that ultra-important position right.