The Chicago Bears Are Simply Unwatchable
As a qualifier, I consider myself one of the most dedicated and loyal Chicago Bears fans in the world. Not only do I produce weekly articles and podcast episodes (Bears Review Show accessible wherever you listen to your podcasts) in which I detail the high-level and technical aspects of each and every game, but I also have not missed a game dating back to the start of the 2018 season. Suffice to say, I didn’t plan on missing a game for the foreseeable future, but the Bears have left me no other choice. They are simply unwatchable.
An offense that has sputtered for the past three years is without their sole beacon of hope in rookie quarterback Justin Fields, and the defense — due to both the injury bug and schematics that are less-than — is a far cry from the unit they were in 2018 and even 2019. Factor in the Giants holding the Bears’ 2022 first-round pick and the circus surrounding the team’s head coach (i.e., rumors of a midseason firing being leaked), and the Bears are inarguably the largest tire fire in the NFL. There is nothing that fans can look forward to from week to week at the moment. Now, could that change with Fields returning from injury? Absolutely. But the shine of a promising young quarterback will quickly wear off due to the inevitable rust that comes with such lengthy time off.
And perhaps most sobering of all, it will all come to a head — as it did in both 2014 and 2020 — on Sunday Night Football against the archrival Green Bay Packers. The 41–25 bashing of last year remains fresh in fans’ minds, but somehow, the Bears are worse than they were last year. At least they were a playoff team back then. This year, they are nothing more than a complete embarrassment.
From Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers screaming “I still own you” to Bears fans following his game-sealing touchdown run back in week 6 to Tony Romo and Jim Nantz making a play on those words during the 38–3 blowout the following week to “Fire Nagy” chants reigning across the country (not just the city but the country), every single sign of the Bears’ dysfunction is coming out. This franchise is burning to pieces, and the paying customer is the one suffering, because frankly, the McCaskey’s don’t give a single damn. If they did, Ted Phillips would have been gone a decade again. All that matters to them is the balance sheet — a hard truth for fans to swallow. But they better start caring about the product on the field because they have officially reached territory that even the lowly New York Jets have never reached: apathy.
If I don’t care, the average Bears fan doesn’t care. Don’t bother waking us up until Justin Fields is starting again. Until then, we won’t be watching.
