Sue Rhein, Bears Super Fan




The Bears are 6-0 what a rush. Its a great feeling to be undefeated this early in the season but, at the same time its a little scary too. That was one UGLY win against the Cardinals yesterday but, as I have been told by others, a win is a win no matter how UGLY it is.

Now since the Bears have two weeks of R&R, its time to go back and see where the Bears made their mistakes and believe me there were a lot and correct them. I was so disgusted by the way the Bears were playing that I actually started to fall asleep through the first half of the game because, this was not the Bears team who has one the past five weeks by dominating on Offense, Defense and Special Teams. I made a comment to my sister that the Bears must have suited up their practice squad for the first half of the game against the Cardinals and finally when Lovie and the rest of the Bears started to see that they were losing the game against the 1-4 Cardinals, that's when the "real Bears players" showed up to play against the Cardinals.

I was disappointed in Rex's performance as well as our entire Offense. I had hopes that Rex had worked through all his inconsistencies in the passing game but after yesterday's showing, its obvious that Rex still has some bumps that need ironing out. Thank goodness the Bears have an awesome Defense and Special Teams that they can count on to come through in a pinch to win games for the team. But then again, I wasn't all that impressed with our Defense in the first half of the game either.

The Bears that played in the first half of yesterday's game were not the same Bears that have been dominating in the weeks prior or, maybe they were and my worst fears had finally come true. The Bears showed that they were overly confident in themselves by going into yesterday's game against the 1-4 Cardinals with the attitude that because the Cardinals were a 1-4 team that they were a "nothing team" and the Bears could take them fairly easy especially when Rex opened with a bomb to the end zone but when Berrian missed it, I think that's when the Bears lost the wind out of their sail.

The one thing the Bears didn't count on was the Cardinals coming out fighting with a fire in their belly along with the hopes of bringing home a win in front of their home crowd and what better way to do it but to bring in the undefeated Bears to their knees and make them lose their first game to a team who is 1-4 and to make matters worse make the undefeated Bears lose their first game on Monday night when the game is nationally televised.

The Cardinals had hopes of showing the rest of the teams in the NFL that the Bears aren't as good as they claim to be and that the Bears could be beaten and with the way the Bears were playing in the first half of the game, they were proving the Cardinals and the rest of the teams in the NFL right.

Well its now time for the Bears to lick their wounds and go back to the drawing board and figure out where they went wrong and to learn from their mistakes not only from this past game but from the past five weeks as well and then they need to figure out a way to capitalize on those mistakes and play a much stronger Bears football game.

The Bears have two weeks before they play the 49ers at Soldier Field so there should be no excuses as to why the Bears aren't playing their best football come Sunday, October 29th and since the game against the 49ers will be played so close to Halloween, maybe the Bears can "Monster Mash" the 49ers and put another "W" in the win column.

GO BEARS