It's official, the Chicago sports media blows. They'll shove any cliche they can think of under your nose if it pertains to losing or misery. They'll constantly remind you that the Cubs haven't won the World Series in over 100 years. Most of all, they will never let you enjoy winning.
Enter Neil Hayes of the Chicago Sun-Times and his take on the Chicago Bears:
But there are other ways of evaluating a team's performance. Yes, wins are important in this bottom-line business. But a better gauge requires measuring performance against individual and collective potential. In that case, the best news -- or the worst, depending on your point of view -- is that these Bears remain as much a work in progress as the never-ending road construction on the tollway that leads players and coaches to Halas Hall. Mental and physical errors have prevented this team from approaching a level of play that equals or exceeds the sum of its parts.
What we have learned about this team after three games is that it's a perplexing and mistake-prone bunch that raises as many questions as it answers from week to week. The Bears have a Pro Bowl-caliber running back but can't run the ball, for example. They have a franchise quarterback, but no true No. 1 receiver.
It has been a team that finishes strong but starts slow. Special teams are supposed to be a strength, but those units have surrendered as many big plays as they have made. It features a coaching staff unafraid of sending 185-pound Garrett Wolfe up the gut on a critical third-and-one against all logic.
Fuck that Neil, I'll still going to evaluate this team by wins and losses, thank you very much. Instead of writing an article that nobody wants to read about how the Bears are 4 missed field goals away from being 0-3, would it have killed you to write about how the Bears are one Rodgers to Jennings play away from being 3-0?
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