Don't fret. This isn't rock bottom. That's still coming.

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After a week of surreal awfulness at Halas Hall, the Bears flew (or took a train or a bus or something) to Kansas City and the game was just another kind of surreal awfulness.

You know things are going poorly when the fact that your defensive coordinator was fired for inappropriate behavior in the workplace was considered good news because at least it debunks the creepy QAnon fueled child sex trafficking rumors from last week.

By the way, the fact that there were actual media members who felt like it was just fine to retweet the fan fiction that the FBI raided Halas Hall led by Peanut Tillman who made Matt Eberflus cry, is sad, but telling.

At least the made up FBI raid overshadowed Justin Fields saying he was being over coached to the point of paralysis in the pocket (something we all were plainly seeing happen), and then coming back to scold the media for misquoting him.

It will never not amaze me that the Chicago Bears media can not hold two parallel thoughts on anything. It is true that Justin needs to learn how to take a lot of information and process it so that he can simply react in the moment, and also that the Bears coaches need to present the information in a way that allows him to do that. Justin can say he’s being overcoached and also take his own share of the blame. Both things can be and are true, and Justin acknowledged that in his original comments.

But that wasn’t all. The same night as Peanut’s phantom raid and Justin’s comments and retraction, somebody stole $100,000 worth of lawn mowing equipment from the Halas Hall parking lot!