Bears Bits: Another Embarrassing Loss Confirms a Sobering Truth ...Middle East

I’m sure you’re all feeling pretty crummy about the Bears’ loss to the Minnesota Vikings last night, so I’ll offer you some optimism this Tuesday morning: at least you’re not me, who had to watch that game again this morning and will have to watch the All-22 later today.

Whether you watch the game once or three times, it’s not getting any better. This team is broken beyond repair. No coaching change will save it, and we’ve reached the point where the locker room is splintering. Cole Kmet’s words last night were pretty damning.

“I think what I’ve learned through it all; you’ve got to be on your own sh*t, and trying to get other guys to do certain things or other people to do certain things, it takes away from your preparation. You’ve got to take care of your own sh*t and do your job. If other guys aren’t doing their job or other people aren’t doing their job, that’s on them,” Kmet told reporters in the locker room following another embarrassing loss on Monday night.

Translation: It’s every man for themselves down the stretch.

The worst part? We’ve got three more weeks of this crap fest!

Lukewarm Take: The Chicago Bears Won’t Win Another Game this Season

The Bears’ chances of winning another game this season are similar to the chances of scoring early, converting a third down, or stopping an opposing offense on third down. Detroit comes to town on Sunday, and even a reeling Lions squad, whose decimated defense allowed Buffalo to score 48 points on Sunday in their building, opens as 6.5-point road favorites against the Bears.

After Detroit, which is fighting to stay atop the NFC North, Chicago gets two teams fighting to make the postseason — Seattle (on the day after Christmas!) and Green Bay. Barring a miracle, Chicago will end the season on an 11-game losing streak. The only losing streak longer than that would be the 16-game losing streak that started in 2022 and ended in 2023.

The commonality? General Manager Ryan Poles.

Poles has been the Bears’ GM for the two longest losing streaks in the franchise’s more than 100-year history, and there have to be consequences for that this offseason.

Ryan Poles Should Be Firmly on the Hot Seat

Actually, Ryan Poles should have been on the hot seat when the offensive coordinator and head coach were fired in the season. Now, he should be placing his home on Zillow.

Ryan Poles has gotten some things right during his tenure as the GM of the Chicago Bears. The trade with the Carolina Panthers was a significant win; even if the most critical acquisition from that trade—Caleb Williams—involved some dumb luck, it’s still in the win column by my scorecard.

The Chicago Tribune’s Dan Wiederer laid out what a general manager’s most significant priorities are, and I can’t disagree with any of these:

Wiederer wrote that Poles has accomplished the latter two objectives during his tenure, but I don’t see it this way. I think that he has gotten the quarterback position right with Caleb Williams. Amid all the chaos and suck at Halas Hall this season, Williams has flashed all of the skills and prerequisites that a franchise quarterback must possess. He is by no means a finished product, and he will face an uphill climb with another coaching staff taking over in his sophomore season, but he’s the guy for now, and he’s pretty darn good.

However, I don’t think he’s built and fortified a championship-contending roster. I think he’s built a roster that will likely lose 13 games this season and finish dead last in their division. I think he’s built a roster with glaring deficiencies across the offensive line, defensive line, and linebacker groups.

He replaced Roquan Smith with Tremaine Edmunds, and that has been a failure. He did nothing to improve the offensive line last offseason, nothing to improve the defensive line. For an offensive lineman who began his front office career in Kansas City, where they’ve done everything right for the better part of two decades, I can’t understand how Poles can be so bad at building in the trenches.

Regarding the first two priorities, he’s failed miserably with the coaching staff and establishing leadership and direction.

According to my scorecard, Poles has failed at all but one priority, and he doesn’t deserve another swing at the rest.

One Thing I Know: The Chicago Bears Have to Get the Next Head Coach Hire Right

There is so much uncertainty about this franchise’s immediate future. From the front office to the roster to the endless jockeying over their new stadium, nothing is certain this Tuesday morning. Except for this: they have to nail the upcoming head coach selection.

Caleb Williams has shown everything you need to see to be convinced he can be the franchise quarterback this franchise and its fan base have sought for so long. But what took place this season can’t take place again. Whether the concern is botching Williams’ development, blowing his rookie contract, or a combination of both, it’s all a valid concern, and it all hinges on the head coaching hire.

This brings me to my last point, in that I don’t see any reason to allow Ryan Poles to make that selection.

I’m not here to argue who should make that hire—not today, at least. I’m simply saying who shouldn’t be making that evaluation, and that’s Ryan Poles, who has made far more incorrect evaluations than not during his tenure as the chief decision-maker on the football side of things at Halas Hall.

To me, those two points are the only certainties at Halas Hall these days, and that’s a sobering truth.

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