Bears Midterm Report Card

Gene Chamberlain wrote up a very creative Bears Midseason/Midterm Report, giving letter grades to the many facets of this underachieving Bears team, and the results are not pretty.  The highest letter grade Chamberlain gave up in any category was an A to the tight ends, the only excellent grade given out.  Beyond that, anything above a C generally went to special teams corps, like the kicking and receiver teams.  The QBs got an F, the run game got a D-, the defense averaged about a D-, and the coaching staff got an F as well.  Chamberlain certainly pulled no punches with his grades, and I can’t say that I vehemently disagree with him here.

The Bears went from being an elite team feasting on a weak conference to an old team struggling to get to .500 in a young, athletic, and inherently strong conference seemingly overnight.  Sure, no one could have predicted that the Lions or Packers would actually be this good, or that Adrian Peterson would be running like a Hall of Famer in his rookie campaign, but the Bears would be a bad team even if none of those things were true.  And I think that’s what hurts Chicago fans the most.  The Bears haven’t just lost, but they look awful out on the field.  They can’t get an offense going, the defense is wearing down, and they just can’t rely on Devin Hester to do everything out there.  Hopefully the Bears have fixed some issues over their bye week, because they still have an outside chance to make the playoffs if they can finish strong.

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