Rex Grossman: very good. Chicago Clown Media: very bad

If any one has been reading my rants over the past couple of months, you know where I stand about Rex and his ability and of the Chicago media and there inabilities.

I had a feeling - almost like Spider-man-like sense that all was not good on Lovie's "Good Ship Chicago Bears" - last year. Yea they kept winning and I thought they were a very good team. But I always figured they were an injury or two away from being an ordinary team.

This year, unfortunately, proves my hunch right.

The big question I have is why did it take all this time for the Chicago media to figure it out? Did they really feel Rex was playing that bad or did they see what I saw mid-way through fall of 2006 that the coaching staff did not adjust to the league’s adjustment to them? I've said it before and I will say it now, again: the Bears brain trust is dumb - Lovie Smith needs the benching. The Bears should just fire him and start over fresh. It is his ineptitude that has made this team not so much losers (injuries have a lot to do with that), but exposed him as a pretender as a coach and a leader.

The Bears are/were plenty good to be an 8-5 team right now with simple adjustments in play calling. You can blame a game or two on a bad play, assistant coach, booing fans, whatever. But reviewing the over all trend of this team produces one answer: Lovie is too kind, too sweet, and too full of shit to be an effective NFL head coach.

Hopefully Rex doesn't have a serious injury to his knee. I hope he recovers fast. I hope he works his ass off during the off season. I hope he will tell the Bears and the City of Chicago to kiss his ass and go else where. Bilick? Martz? Rex will be in high demand. His wavier wire will last all of 5 seconds if that.

OK - let's expose this whiny-ass Chicago print & radio media. This is too easy - like shooting morons in a fish bowl.

The time is 2006 and Rex is lighting up the league. He is offensive player of the month for September and the Bears look like contenders, blowing out everyone they see. They have Thomas Jones in the backfield. Most of the defense is intact. Teams are lying down in front of them. Life is good. All the experts recognize Rex for his pure ability as a NFL QB. He is at the moment, a top 5 QB amongst the Brady’s, Manning’s, Palmers, etc. (pick you 5th, I can't).

Then came the Arizona game. Dennis Green decoded the smoke and mirrors. Lovie just looked out across the field with that "I think I'm Bill Walsh" all business stare. The Bears were out coached but not out played. Yea, Rex had a bad game. But it was a game made worse by an inept coaching staff that was too stupid to make adjustments to the uppity Cardinals and or too stubborn to change because, well, "We're the Bears and we come off the bus just being us".

Brian Urlacher, Nathan Vasher, and Charles Tillman saved that game. Pure want to. Pure pride. Pure hard hits. They played inspired and for them self’s - not for any coach, I believe.

"They were who we thought they were". No truer words were spoken. This was the beginning of the end for Lovie's charade.

The rest of the teams now had enough film on Rex and the overall scheme of the Bears that after watching Arizona do it; a blueprint was created for all to follow: send 8 cuz Mr. Turner can't set up an effective screen and there really isn't a deep threat by any of the Bears wide receivers. Simple.

So now that Rex had no time to throw, many in the media, who are out of breath by the time they get to the candy machines in their offices, said that Rex is inept because he can't handle the pressure. He's not quick enough in his drop. Doesn't have a quick release. Wow, guys, that was brilliant. The point was not that Rex couldn't get rid of it quickly - it's who the hell his he going to throw it to? Brady always has had someone. Manning too. Rex? Well, let's see Moose. Berrian. Davis? Not exactly guys that would be starting on other teams, ya know. We have no route runners or separators. End of story. Most great QB's have always had great offensive lines and great receivers.

And to add to the point of getting rid of it quickly, what adjustment did the Bears make for the receivers to exploit the blitzes? None. The league sent everyone and we ran Jones up the middle. Yup, Rex sucks.

The start of the 2007 season was no better. All the opposing Head Coaches had to do was dust off the blue print that worked well against the Bears in 2006 and re-apply it in 2007. If they knew one thing it was this: the Bears coaching staff is too stupid and has too much pride to change a thing. Remember Steve Smith and the 2005 play off game? Say no more.

Well, my boy Rex found himself in similar situations as before but there was no defense to rescue them. They should have won the opening game against the Chargers. They held LT to 25 yards. The D played well for the most part - the exception being that dumb pop-Warner pass from LT to who ever in the end zone.

Bears loose. The league takes notice. Rex is easy to be.., err Lovie is easy to beat.

I said it then. There is no difference between Rex when he is down 17 in the 4th and Brady or Manning. You try to force it in triple coverage. You do things you don't do in the first quarter. But the Bears offense is not designed to score points. The established experts in Chicago could not see that. Heck, me and my boys saw the obvious a long time ago and we have real day jobs. Now Rex sucks. He can't make good decisions when they put 8 in the box. They are on him in 1.8 seconds because our O-line couldn't block a bunch grannies from a bingo parlor. Yup, Rex is loosing this thing for us. Let's get Griese.

Brian Griese. He's a nice guy. But there is a reason why he has bounced around the league and now a back up in Chicago. His arm is not that good. He was throwing at receiver’s feet. All the time. But, you could hear Tommy Thayer blurt out: "That's OK, that's OK...just give him a chance". Uh, TT, your boy sucks and he is and forever will be, a back up.

Rex comes back in. He learns how to play with in Turner's stupid offense. Rex still gets sacked. Rex understands now that it better to loose the game and not try, than to try and maybe throw a pick. God knows if you throw a pick then it will confirm in Lovie's mind, Mike North's mind, Buffone's and O'Bradavich's mind that you suck. I was hearing praise for Rex in how he played a great game even though the Bears lost. Heard that several times in the last few weeks or so. Ya see everybody, Rex did not throw a pick so therefore he has "arrived". I bet if Rex threw 2 picks and the Bears won one of the recent losses by a point or two, they still would be saying he "isn't the answer".

It's funny, Rex got great kudos in the Denver game for rallying the team from behind to beat the Broncos. If they came up short, how much would have been made of the earlier pick in the second quarter?

We should have beat Washington. They really do suck. I think Lovie and Turner can say that the Washington game sums up the fact that they have to go. The experiment is over. Maybe the loss to the Redskins is a blessing. The ship is wandering around in the harbor. Get a smart coach. Get a coach with balls.

All I hear now from the Chicago media is that we don't have an offensive line. Said that 3 months ago. We don't have a running game. Said that 3 months ago. Our defense can not stop a toy train. Said that 3 months ago. Our playing calling is dumb, ineffective, and predictable. Said that 3 months ago. The one thing I don't hear anymore is that Rex sucks. Actually, I've heard complimentary things about Rex lately. So what else was I saying 3 months ago: Rex is a damn good NFL quarterback playing on a bullshit team.

I guess we all now agree. And these media clowns get paid? My daughter and I were listening to the Score the other day and couldn't understand the babble about Rex, the sudden change of heart, the lack of memory of what they were saying just a few short months ago - "Rex is through in Chicago" the Bears are getting rid of him. Now, these same guys are saying that maybe Rex should stay. Maybe? Like all of a sudden they figured out that Griese is a perennial back up and Orton probably will be too?

The media clowns in Chicago get paid to TALK, not think.

Said that 3 months ago.