Thankfully, it's over
The Bears end another awful season with a rare win over the Packers



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A much hyped Bears season mercifully ended yesterday, and while it was mostly a dud, it shockingly finished on a high note. The team that looked like a fringe playoff contender going into the season and that got off to a 4-2 start collapsed in a flurry of dumb and bad. Their Cairo-off win in Lambeau Field helped them tie the Packers for third place in the NFC North at 1-5. (How come nobody talks about what frauds the Packers are?)
Thomas Brown will not finish his Bears’ coaching career winless. His one win puts him 18th all-time in Bears’ history just ten wins behind Abe Gibron and 12 wins behind Marc Trestman. (The Flus and John Fox are tied for 15th at 14.)
Mike Ditka won more games in 1985 than four full-time Bears coaches won in their careers. That seems less than ideal.
When Brown was hired after The Flus was left motionless on the Ford Field sidelines at the end of the Thanksgiving debacle, there were immediate (lazy) comparisons to Steelers’ coach Mike Tomlin because they kind of look alike and they have a similar cadence in the way they talk. Tomlin, of course is a Super Bowl winning coach. So the comparison was supposed to be flattering for Brown. Absurd, but flattering. But, both of them led their teams to 1-4 records over the final five weeks of the season and neither has ever won a Coach of the Year Award.
As much as Chuggo’s Adam Hoge1 wanted to just give the permanent job to Brown as soon as Thomas was named interim head coach, that’s not going to happen, and now that season is finally over it’ll be all coaching search talk now until the Bears figure out a new way to botch it.
I often decry how poorly the Bears are covered by the local media and that’s for a very simple reason. Because it’s true. But the national narrative this season was equally insane. Two parts of it in particular.