'Cause you can't, you won't and you don't stop

Most NFL games come down to the final possession and that's a problem when you have no end of game strategy

'Cause you can't, you won't and you don't stop

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Coaches don’t win games, players do. But coaches can sure as hell lose them, and nobody is on a heater quite like our boy The Flus.

Should Cairo Santos have been able to get a kick up and down from 46 yards out with no wind to worry about at the end of yesterday’s senseless loss to the Packers? Sure, he should have. He’s a very good kicker (just ask Tom Brady who called Cairo “great” an uncomfortable number of times before the final play of the game). And, it’s not like the Bears let :20 or so run off the clock with a timeout in their pocket where they could have at least tried to get him a few yards closer.

Oh, wait? They did? Well, knock me over with a feather.

For the second time in four weeks the Bears committed an avoidable coaching blunder right before the unlikely outcome occurred that cost them a win.

I guess we finally know that HITS stands for.

Honestly, I’m Totally Stupefied

The Bears had been pretty much terrible for 12 straight quarters since their bye week. The one exception was a two-drive sequence near the end of the game against Lionel Richie and the DC Commodores (one of which was sabotaged by the dumbest play call in Bears’ history).

And then yesterday, against the Packers of all teams, the Bears were mostly pretty good.

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