By Jim Coffman
The best way to react to the Bears’ 30-27 overtime loss to the Giants on Sunday? Mine is gratitude – gratitude for what is now 13 weeks of awesome football entertainment (this team was even entertaining during the bye week, baby!).
Yes, the Bears lost to a team they should beat four times out of five, even with a backup quarterback. And yes, we now begin to suspect that general manager Ryan Pace blew another quarterback evaluation when he signed Chase Daniel as Mitch Trubisky’s backup for 2018. At least throw a frickin’ spiral, man! (Although the one pass Daniel can make with consistency is the lofted wobbler to the amazing Tarik Cohen down the sideline. Then again I think the quarterback just fumbled again.)
Part of the gratitude is the fact that the 8-4 Bears still lead the division comfortably over a Viking (6-5-1) team that lost to the Patriots on Sunday night. And then there is the fact that the Bears aren’t the Packers, who have blown another season with Aaron Rodgers at the helm. This one is so embarrassing that the Cheeseheads just panicked and fired their 13-year head coach during the season, something they hadn’t done since 1953.
But I am most thankful that watching this Bears team is seriously fun. Matt Nagy’s inventive play-calling (and special teams coach Chris Tabor’s first potentially game-changing success!) almost enabled his team to come back and snatch a seriously unlikely victory back from the jaws of defeat Sunday afternoon.
Posted on December 3, 2018