The deeper the NFL playoffs got, the more unwatchable the games became, the bigger the routs played out, the more hopeless the Bears look.
The Falcons got a new coach two seasons ago, just like the Bears, except the Falcons coach knew what to look for in a quarterback and how to make him and the team better, even starting several rookies on defense, and like that, Dan Quinn took over a 6-10 team and went 8-8 and now has reached the Super Bowl.
Compare and contrast John Fox’s taking over a 5-11 team, then going 6-10 and then 3-13.
So, you can revel in the Packers’ embarrassing showing in the NFC Championship Game — they piddled down their legs in their biggest game of the year despite having one of the best quarterbacks of all-time — but that only adds to the light years the Bears are from overcoming the Packers.
And that’s just the division. If you want to talk NFC and NFL supremacy, I don’t think the Bears are even allowed to watch the Super Bowl.
Which Bears assistant coach’s turn is it to ditch out today?
So, Fox’s offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator are the only assistant coaches being held hostage in what figures to be the last season of this regime?
A look at the faces at Halas Hall.
Scouting reports say Deshaun Watson plays his best in big games, which makes him useless to a Bears franchise that has given up playing big games.
The best thing about the new developmental football league that commissioner Roger Goodell talked about is it’ll widen the pool from which the Bears will fail to draft a quarterback.
A Super Bowl prop bet offered by the offshore site Bookmaker.eu regarding the number of commercials in which Peyton Manning will appear saw a big change in odds by the end of the week. The over-under opened at 1½ and remained there, but the over went from plus-120 (bet $100 to win $120) to minus-380 (bet $380 to win $100). Sounds like someone got hold of Papa John’s ad buy.
A survey by Public Policy Polling revealed a majority of fans are rooting for the Falcons to beat the Patriots. FS1 NFL analyst Cris Carter said he wasn’t surprised because “people don’t like winners. I expect there to be some type of venom towards people that win all the time.’’ And cheat all the time, too, Cris. They cheat all the time. They’ll cheat Sunday, I’ll bet. You watch, Cris, they’ll cheat.
Now the Blackhawks have replaced blowing games in the third period by nearly losing them in the second with some brainless play against one of the worst teams in the league. Does Stan Bowman still believe he doesn’t need to make a trade?
Too often this season, Brian Campbell has looked overpaid at $2.25 million instead of a guy the Blackhawks stole for $2.25 million.
If the Bulls can get the rest of their opponents on the second night of a back-to-back and shoot better than 60 percent the rest of the season, I like their chances to avoid the Cavs in the first round.
Before the Bulls began their road trip with a remarkable, uncharacteristic 128-100 rout of the Thunder, Dwyane Wade was talking like he and Jimmy Butler needed help. What, Wade didn’t know this when he signed here? Did he think he was coming to the Chicago Warriors? Yeesh.
Kirk Hinrich (dribble, dribble, dribble) participated in (dribble, dribble, dribble) the Cavs’ big tryout (dribble, dribble, dribble) of free-agent point guards (dribble, dribble, dribble).
The Choice (and remember, death is not an option): National Signing Day as the most ridiculously overhyped sports inevitability or pitchers and catchers reporting as the most ridiculously overhyped sports inevitability?
Upon seeing the headline “Asteroid whizzes past earth by distance of only 40,536 miles — closer than the moon,’’ baseball writer Joe Sheehan tweeted, “CB Bucknor called it a strike."
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