As an organization, the Bears have been haunted by having sub-standard QBs on the roster, except for McMahon for only like 2-3 healthy seasons in the mid 80′s. I believe that unless the rest of your team is absolutely awesome (e.g. Raven’s defense 5 years ago), then your QB needs to be in the “Top 3rd” of the league in order to win it all. The QB position is too important.

Nice to see Texas A&M emerge as a front-runner in college hoops. Being near Houston with all that talent, there’s no way they should be a doormat every year. Hopefully, this is a permanent change in the right direction for them.

Wally answer me this – if I told you in preseason that the Bears would make it to the Super Bowl, would you be happy?

Time for Texas – Texas A&M.

I’m still ticked at the Bears for dropping the ball in this one (figuratively, we all know they did it literally). That was a winnable game … not only were the Bears winning by 8 early on, but it was only a 5 point deficit early in the 4th. I guess that’s where having a top quartile QB comes in handy, as opposed to the mediocre Rex Grossman. There’s nothing worse than throwing an INT that gets returned for a TD, especially at that juncture of the game. It’s the worst possible screw-up he could’ve made.

It was a bit of a knee jerk reaction to be disgusted with the Bears defense as well, especially given the shoddy tackling. BUT, if you take a step back and realize that they allowed Indy only 22 points in total and only 6 in the second half, that’s a pretty good job. If you’d have offered me the proposition that the Colts score only 22 points on offense, I’d have taken that before the game, but of course the risk to that is “how many points will Rex give up himself?” and that’s what came back to bite ‘em.

The entire Bears team could’ve played better yesterday, but if you need to fix one thing to make a huge difference, it would obviously be QB play. Either Grossman has to improve, or they need to find someone better. Is it Griese? Is it a free agaent (Garcia)? Don’t know.

Either way, the Bears have a pretty good core group here that is capable of returning to the Super Bowl … and maybe winning it if they improve QB performance. I know things change quickly in today’s NFL and God knows injuries can wipe out a season, but the Bears are still advantaged right now by being in a division with Detroit, Minn and Green Bay. Maybe they should try to draft a QB in the first round … and maybe they should trade up to get a better draft choice?

The better half responded: “Keep this up and you’ll be going home at halftime.”

I had to separate the factions several times during the contest by reminding them: “Hey, we’re here to enjoy the game.”

Wally, Mom has taken to the ‘death chair’. For those of us not in the know Wally gave this name to a chair in our family room because it renders its victims incapable of moving and brings on a death-like sleep. After an ND game last fall Mom fell asleep in the reclined position of the chair. Upon waking she grabbed the handle on the side of the chair to return it to the inclined position. Once there she leaned forward and accidentally rocked ever so slightly and the chair sprung back to the reclined position. After a moment of awkward silence because I wasn’t sure how she’d respond, she kinda chuckled and said: “Guess it doesn’t want me to leave.”
Since then even Mom has taken to calling it the ‘death chair’.

If the Colts weren’t running, Addai was catching. 10 catches? So much for my prediction about Marvin. How does Addai NOT get the MVP? I know, I know if Peyton played even close to good he was going to get the award.

Wayne’s touchdown did not bode well for the Bears. If he were any more open, he would have been…well…uh…a 7-Eleven. I know the Bears were up at the time, but putting pressure like that on Rex was a recipe for disaster.

Losing Benson obviously hurt. One less weapon the Colts D had to concern itself with.

Wally, good call on Hester and the Scarlet Letter return. I’ll take props for the Sanders call. Mike and I called Peyton the MVP. Of course that was so easy even a cave man could have made that call.

Lastly cheers to the General Manager, Bill Polian. Polian constructed the Buffalo Bills teams of the early 90′s that made it to four consecutive Bowls. A disagreement with Ralph Wilson left Polian without a job, and after a brief stop in Carolina, James Irsay got himself a great exec.