Rod's Friday Thoughts

Being a Chicago Bears fan, today is not a fun day. I gave up watching the 11B championship game Thursday night so I could watch the Bears and San Francisco. I should of watched Winner and Tri Valley. At 12-6 there was more offense than what I saw in the Bears 10-6 loss to San Francisco. The Bears brought in this prime time quarterback and paid, actually overpaid, him quite well. So what has Mr. Prime Time QB Jay Cutler done? In his 3 Prime Time appearances, he has thrown 11 interceptions compared to 6 during the day games. 11 in 3 games compared to 6 in the other 6. I can be a "I told you so kinda guy" and if you have followed these post, you know that I was not a Cutler fan. He is playing in a division where they play and relish playing defense. The NFC North. Not the AFC West where they played defense the last couple of years only because the had too! And now, because of his salary and the trade with Denver, the Bears in the words of that old Bobby Bare song, "We got em boy, so that must make me a winner". Actually, rewrite the song to "we got em boy, so when are we going to be a winner". The Bears signed him and then with the wisdom of anybody but Soloman, gave him an extention right away. So now you have a prime time quarterback being paid a primetime price now quarterbacking a team that will probably not make it to a prime time game again this year. Team's with losing records usually don't. Instead of paying dearly in money and draft picks, and by the way there is no first or second round pick for the Bears thanks to our prime timer JC in the near future, the Bears should have spent the money getting offensive lineman that can block and recievers that can catch. Chicago is a team that is built and always has been built to run the football. They are the worst team in the league now running the football. They have offensive lineman that cannot block, but do hold and get caught holding on a regular basis, so they do lead the league in something.

I would like to congratulate the fans of the NFC North Champion Minnesota Vikings. In a division that features Detroit, Chicago and Green Bay who after Sunday will join the Bears 4 games back of Minnesota with 7 left to play. What a division. And what a game I chose not to watch on TV in Vermillion last night. So with 17 interceptions in 9 games to lead the league, what can Jay do next? If I were a defensive back with the Bears coming up on my schedule I'd be wettn the old undies just waiting to get on the field.