A Good Year for the Outlaw

All Bear fans like to hate the Minnesota Vikings, and it’s been easy to laugh at that franchise the last few years. But this year’s teams have something in common: Bad offense led by bad quarterbacks.

The Vikes have played two games and the offense has scored two touchdowns. Meanwhile, the defense has scored three, so the “team” is averaging 21 points per game…which is misleading. The Viking offense stinks. But it’s STILL better than the Bears’ offense. Why? Because Minnesota has the better Adrian Peterson.

The Bears have played two games. Their offense has scored one touchdown. The only other TD today came from the special teams, by way of Devin Hester (who also had one called back). Rex Grossman is terrible. When is the staff going to admit it? When are the fans going to admit it?

The most hilarious thing I heard all day was driving to Peoria and listening to the pre-game predictions by the so-called “experts” on WBBM-AM. “28-12″ said one (I have no idea who these guys are…don’t care), and the other blurted out “31-3″. I about swerved off Route 78 into a Stark Co. cornfield in a fit of laughter. These guys made the old Saturday Night Live “Super Fans” predictions seem positively sane.

28? 31? The Bears couldn’t score that many right now in a scrimmage with Metamora H.S. Are you kidding me? Time to take off the Navy and Orange shades, folks, this team isn’t scoring 28 anytime soon, unless Hester returns THREE kicks for TD’s in one game. Sheesh.

But their fans and “experts” on air are certainly entertaining.