Just a sick thought. Anyone wonder how church services in Chicago really are these days??? You know, with the guy delivering the sermon with the headphone in one ear, which would go something like this...
"Let's say, we're a football team. A bad football team. A pathetic football team. A team with a chance to win, lets say, four games or so. A team with a pretty decent rookie linebacker, but not much else."
"The coach stubbornly insists on playing a quarterback that management stupidly blew a first round draft choice on. And to top it off, a quarterback who chases playboy models around. We plead for the coach to bench him and play the backup who's much better. Finally the starter gets hurt and the second-stringer gets in. The team plays better, we gain momentum, we even win a game. But then the backup tears his achilles, relegating us with the same third-stringer we've been trying to get by with for the last three years."
"Then, to make matters worse, our offensive coordinator, you know, the one who runs the wierd schemes that everyone, even Green Bay coaches have figured out, receives a calling. A calling to get out of this lousy dead-end position so he can go back home, be a college coach, succeed a coaching legend, and have his team throw the ball 90 times a game if he so pleases. The coordinator, of course, waffles at the offer. He feels that he has 'unfinished business', that he needs to stay here in Chicago to screw up this offense even more!!!!!"
At this point, admist a lot of murmuring, a voice in back yells, "Hey, we're here so we don't have to watch the God-forsaken Bears!!!!!!" Hundreds of amens follow.
Such is life in Chicago these days. The good news for Bear fans, if there are any left, is that the offensive coordinator, Gary Crowton, did take the BYU head coaching job, to which 86% of responders in a Chicago newspaper on-line poll said good riddance. Also, it was announced the you will not be seeing anymore of Cade McNown this year. The bad news however, Dick Jauron is still your coach. And they thought coach Wanny was bad, who happens to be 10-3 in Miami. Not to mention no running game to speak of and both starting wideouts gone for the year.
You suppose it's time to fax or e-mail those 2001 schedules to all the Bear fans you may know. That would be the one that has them playing a nursing home one week, a girl scout troop the next week, then the school for the blind the week after that.
Turning to a newspaper article in the Milwaukee paper this week suggesting that Packer backup Matt Hasselbeck be traded if the team could get a first-rounder in return. Obviously a good idea with #4 behind center and lately looking as good as ever. Why then did Ron Wolf trade Aaron Brooks during the summer just to get a body at linebacker along with a third round choice???
People thought at the time it was a good idea to move Brooks rather than having him sulk being a #3. But wouldn't a better concept have been keeping Brooks before trading Hasselbeck. That way Green Bay could have gone into 2001 with Brooks as the new "Mr. August", and find out what New Orleans knows now, what a gem this guy is. Then, if needed, Brooks could have been traded for a first rounder or two down the road.
As I've said before, if Brooks has too many 400+ yard performances like last week, he may become to Green Bay what Favre is to Atlanta, in other words, "how did you give up on the guy so easy"...
Another red-hot week for me, 3-1 on my locks and an amazing 12-3 overall, that makes it 119-84 for the year, an incredible 59% against the spread. So spare the 20 bucks you were going to spend calling Football Legend Jack Powers and go with these gems.
NE +2 @ CHI - Current coaches making Carroll and Wannie look like geniuses, take the Pats.
12/9/00 Whoops-I’m waffling again. Just remote viewed this game and am envisioning a bunch of wind-blown picks of Bledsoe. Change to Bears –2…
@ MIA -2.5 over TB - And if the Bears game gets blacked out locally, Chicago can see Wanny go to 11-3. Pick Dolphins.
NO +3 over SF - Wrong team is favored. AB goes off for over 400 in a Saints win.
WAS -6 @ DAL - You mean Dan Snyder passed up on Ray Rhodes as an interim coach??? Doesn't matter, Jeff George goes nuts and the Skins do their Seattle Supersonic, yeah, we got the coach canned impression. Washington big.
KAC
