I think what we are seeing is a bunch of meatballs with simplistic brains imploding, because they want quick, easy answers, and to put ALL the blame on a singular person, because that is the lazy, easy way for them to process anything, even if it is incorrect.
And if there is a singular person to blame, its George McCaskey, but they can't get George fired, and they demand a pound of flesh, so they focus on who they believe they CAN get fired. It's almost like they believe in witchcraft - that if they burn the effigy of who they deem the source of their issues (in this case, a player gets cut or a coach gets fired), then magically all the problems disappear with them, and when they don't, whelp, rather than learn that this is the wrong mental approach, they just look for another "effigy to burn" - it's literally primative, stone age thinking.
The reality is, the Bears have a multitude of issues. We can't solve the McCaskey one (really, we don't own the team so we can't solve any of them), but of the ones that potentially need solving:
* Need a GM who is better at drafting AND capable of fixing the offensive line AND capable of identifying good coaching candidates
* Going hand in hand with that, we need better depth at all positions on the field.
* Need a better HC who will be able to steer the locker room and also whose schemes are NFL-sound rather than our last 3 offensive minds, who drew up plays in crayola based on playing too much madden and thought it made them smart.
* Need a better offensive line to protect the QB instead of a coaching staff (and fandom) that overrates the talent there.
* Need better coaches on the staff at the position groups
* Need another RB who can act as a workhorse and we put swift as the 3rd down back he is.
* Need another quality pass rusher, if not 2.
That's a clear-eyed look at everything. There are a lot of "effigies" fans want to "burn" that are just scapegoats for the above issues, and in their stupor, they are willing to part with good or potentially good players who might do better under better coaches.
At the same time, they will overvalue dead weight because those players didn't outshine other players in terms of making a mistake, thus leading to the lionizing of players who are mediocre at best.
And then when you do get a player who potentially might be truly great eventually, they have no patience to let them develop, especially at a position where they've burned so many effigies that it can be considered a religious practice.
This fandom has issues, man...
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