Bear Weather Fans

    After re-watching the Packers film all week, there's only one conclusion. Well, I mean there's hundreds, most of them me screaming between bottles of whiskey demanding to know what God would allow this.     But an important one: playing Duke Shelley in meaningful snaps against Aaron Rodgers is the defensive back equivalent of submitting an application for assisted suicide. He's not fast enough to cover receivers, not good enough of a tackler to be anything but a liability in the run game, and uses the energy he should spend on diagnosing plays to instead commit costly penalties to set up easy touchdowns. He's secondary euthanasia, except usually euthanasia is attempted to be performed with dignity.     Why do we here at Bear Weather Fans call him "the only nickel who is literally worth that much"? Well, for starters—   1. Duke Shelley Doesn't Have the Speed to Cover Receivers (Or Anybody)     Here Duke Shelley, ...

    Admit it, when NFL network announced that Nagy was taking more of a hands-on role in the Bears offense, a shiver went down your spine. What kind of idiot would see an offense that leapt up in every single category the minute his hands were taken off the wheel and conclude "this is all good, but what it needs is more ME"? This is somehow worse than the visor.        And then, like a horror movie in slow motion, the monster started to rear its ugly head. Javon Wims getting meaningful snaps for some reason. Rashaad Coward being asked to do anything other than boost the confidence of pass rushers at practice. Saying goodbye to all the success off of play action passing and zone runs out of 12 personnel they've built on for the last several games to switch to 11-personnel, inside zone running, shotgun-heavy offense. Trubisky being asked to outperform Aaron fucking Rodgers with full-field reads out of shotgun.    Yes, the Bears are in the...

    You knew it was gonna happen. For a man who's so self-absorbed, who refused to give up playcalling despite running some of the best offensive weapons into the ground for the better part of two years, who so disproportionately values his own identity over objective evaluation that his mantra is literally "be you", you just knew that he couldn't sit back and let his team succeed without him. You are you, Nagy. That's the problem.       Of course Rashaad Coward saw the field against the Packers, despite not showing any skills other than "medium-budget strip club bouncer". Of course Wims saw an uptick in snaps again despite the offense's resurgence being almost entirely while he was on the bench. Of course we saw the resurgence of shotgun passes, inside zone runs, nonsensical trick plays in redzone in goal line situations that make you wonder if he even understands that their is no "style" portion of the scoring system.        ...