FUN-BAD: How to enjoy the 2015 Bears Season

[HeHateMe]

I havent been this depressed about the Bears since Wanny

I'm now in the acceptance phase.

 

[hyatt151]

Congrats on 20,000 posts!

Luckily hockey starts in week 5 so I can quit football for the year.

Going to be interesting to see how many times Kane scores this year.

That last score with the chick in the bar may have been his last.

 

[hyatt151]

Honestly, I'm not concerned with record. I can see us going 2-14 or 10-6 depending on where the chips fall. I'm more concerned with being better than last year (not record wise). I want a watchable team at the least isn't going to give up mid-way through the year. I grew up with the Bears going 7-9, 6-10, 9-7 etc. but it was at least entertaining. Last year was the first year that I can remember that I stopped watching games before they were complete.

Really? Do you have Hubble telescope vision?

 

[shoopster]

With all of the discussion about tanking this season for a new elite QB or OL or CB or LB or S, I was starting to get a little low in anticipation of watching some pretty frustrating, horrible football from my favorite team (the Bears) so it got me searching for a silver lining.

Professional football is a sport and is supposed to be entertainment. The games are on TV. But how are we going to be entertained week in and week out if we have nothing to look forward to but Ls?

This thread is for the gloom and doomers, betas and haters, but it's also for those of us that enjoy seeing the Bears WIN, even if it means we don't get an elite player in next year's draft.

What will be the things you look forward to every week this season despite facing an inevitable loss? What sort of play from your favorite BUSTS will make you LOL?

We are talking about "Fun Bad" where certain mistakes, gaffs, whiffs, breakdowns and overall shit play actually becomes entertaining to watch...

For some it might be Cutler getting clobbered, others seeing Shea getting trucked, while others it will be the "shoestring" tackles Forte is always victimized with.

I'm not sure what I'll be looking forward to, but maybe it will involve Jared Allen chicken leg fails, or maybe missed assignments in the secondary. If anything, I predict that a complete abandon of the passing game will make me LOL, just seeing Cutler hand off the ball until teh RBs are exhausted and Pat O'Donnell gets to do his beastly thing...

So, FUN BAD, What Ya Got???

We can't even enjoy FUN BAD this year ... Nothing - I repeat NOTHING - will top the FUN BAD of the second half of last season ...

 

[FrankieLyrical]

Really? Do you have Hubble telescope vision?

I wasn't being literal, I was just trying to say we can be really bad or unexpectedly good

 

[Milton Waddams]

The only fun bad is when you're in a year in which it's possible that the f.o. & coaching staff will get pink slips by the end of the year. Like when you're getting pantsed on national tv and you're waiting for those moments when the camera pans to your clueless coach and the owner's box -- hoping the announcers give it to them with both barrels. At least THEN you have the hope of change at the end of the year. It's so pathetic to have a GM/coaching change be the only thing to which you have to look forward. Obviously we don't have that this year.

Emery & Trestman were brought in to fix Angelo & Lovie's problems (lack of talent on the roster...lack of offense/innovation in coaching...not enough playoffs). Pace & Fox were brought in to fix Emery & Trestman's problems (lack of talent on the roster...being totally fucking clueless as to how to handle an NFL locker room...no playoffs). I think it's safe to assume that the BEARS don't make the playoffs this season. That'll be 5 straight seasons of no playoffs for us. Meanwhile our main rival probably will make the playoffs. That'll be 7 straight seasons of playoffs for them. You can't overhaul the talent on the team in 1 season. So how many seasons does it take? How much longer will it take for the BEARS to be in playoff contention every year (or most years)? And what if Pace & Fox aren't the crew to get it done? Then it's up to the next people to fix the mistakes of the current people who failed to fix the mistakes of the last people. Now how many years are we talking with no playoffs? Are we the fucking Lions then? Sometimes I wonder if Emery had just hired Arians...eh, let's not go there.

I like the NFL. I love the BEARS. I get genuinely excited before each season, hoping things come together. When the BEARS suck, the NFL isn't any fun for me overall. What the **** do I care which teams are good (or even which teams are playing) if my team blows? I'm not not into fantasy football. Given that I don't like college fb, it can really be slim pickings. I basically end up having the fall weather to which I can look forward.

I know sports is just a diversion. Too many people take it way too seriously. I have friends who only care about sports - nothing else. I think that's idiotic. But sports are a nice diversion. Especially the NFL, which only lasts 4 or 5 months. If your team blows, those fun Sundays aren't fun anymore. And it's a whole 'nother year before you have the possibility of better (ok, maybe the draft).

 

[Raskolnikov]

We need to look at this in a 36 month window i guess. Its all part of the cycle of getting better. Its sad because we have to watch 32 meaningless games. The final execution of Cutler, grooming a new QB to your system,

by the time it all comes around guys like Unicorn, Forte, Bushrod, Young, will all be gone.

It will take a miracle to compete this year, and if we move on from Cutler in the off-season which we should probably not do without a replacement, it will only get worse for a time. There aren't enough draft picks to go around and Free Agents seem reluctant to come here again.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

We need to look at this in a 36 month window i guess. Its all part of the cycle of getting better. Its sad because we have to watch 32 meaningless games. The final execution of Cutler, grooming a new QB to your system,

by the time it all comes around guys like Unicorn, Forte, Bushrod, Young, will all be gone.

It will take a miracle to compete this year, and if we move on from Cutler in the off-season which we should probably not do without a replacement, it will only get worse for a time. There aren't enough draft picks to go around and Free Agents seem reluctant to come here again.

You know 36 months would actually be 48 games, right?

You and Bear Pride are both bad at math, you should get drinks sometime.