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Jay of Hope: Gutsy Cutler Offers Glimpse of Promise For The Future

Posted: 29th December 2009 by Clay Cunningham in NFL
Anyone who follows football in any capacity knows of the struggles Jay Cutler has endured in his first season in Chicago. His 2009 campaign has been awful at best and disastrous at worst. Without slamming the door shut on Cutler's potential, I did not anticipate seeing much in the season's final two weeks to give me any indication he could right the ship in any meaningful way by next ...

It’s Officially Time To End the Lovie Smith Era In Chicago

Posted: 8th November 2009 by Clay Cunningham in NFL
A year ago, after the Bears suffered a frustrating divisional loss at Minnesota, I suggested the Bears should possibly consider making a coaching change at the end of the season due to a string of uninspired efforts. Now, after two humiliating losses in three weeksùarguably the least inspired two games I ever seen in 18 years of watching Bears gamesùit's time for fans to violently screech the suggestions I made ...

Chicago Bears Must Turn It Up to “11” This Week At Atlanta

Posted: 13th October 2009 by Clay Cunningham in NFL
Nothing is worse than seeing your favorite team lose simply by giving a game away, and no one gave one away quite like the Bears did in Week Six last year. Recapping the Bears near-miracle win which turned into an inexplicably impossible loss in just 0:11 is unnecessary. All of us have recapped it time and time again, most notably as the benefactor of said collapse, the Atlanta Falcons, ended up ...
With most teams one quarter of the way through their season, there certainly are a great deal of NFL story lines to discuss. If I were a better writer, I may have a stunningly in0depth analysis of one or more of them. But despite the deception my recent promotion to "Scribe" (a promotion which took merely a year) may have created, I'm honest enough to admit myself to be a ...