Kenneth Sothman, Bears Superfan

It's like a ghost town on this board... I feel as if we're all either really scared right now, or that people have already abandoned ship.

I mean with that said, I did have a blog that I wanted to submit on Tuesday, but towards the end I could sense that I was feeling way too emotional to actually publish what I had said. And it's not that I said anything bad, it was still PG-rated and I didn't attack anybody, but I think my emotions led me more to a biased opinion of what I truly think then what should really be published. And after having met all of you, I can sorta sense that everyone else is probably having the same feelings I was.

So to take care of that, everybody with me now. Breathe in... breathe out. Breathe in... breathe out. Now onto some Bears stuff, which I may repeat myself from my last blog, but I'm ok with that, for whatever it takes to get this mope-streak over with I'm completely alright with.

- Standings-wise, it truly is nothing to freak out about. Honestly. The NFC North is really turning out to be the crapshoot we all thought it would be, and even with a loss, we're three games ahead of the Vikings, four ahead of the Packers, and five ahead of the Lions. I don't know about anyone else, but I truly don't sense any form of mid-season revival coming from any of those teams that we should be worried about. And even though we all like to think it would've been possible to go undefeated, trust me, we were bound to lose one. In fact, we'll probably lose three games. Sorry to break the news.

- Momentum-wise, yeah, this was a tough one to lose. In fact, there's absolutely no reason at all we should lose to the Miami Dolphins in a home game right before an extremely rough road trip. There's no excuse, I don't care how good the Dolphins played. I hate to say it, but this was probably our first form of "must-win" game of the season. And we blew it.

I'm not going to freak out though and say at the end of the road trip the Bears are going to be 7-4. The team is too good overall to lose three straight games, so we'll either come out of this trip 8-3, 9-2, or 10-1. Remember, you read it here first.

- Before I get on Rex, I'm going to point out the fact that the Bears offense gave up 24-points to a Joey Harrington led offense. There's a reason I called the Joey Harrington Era a nightmare, and it's not because he's keeping other defenses up late at night. Yet still he managed to throw three touchdowns, which is a bit ridiculous. And to make things even worse, Ronnie Brown ran for 157 yards. Where was the pride from the defense?

- Now onto Rex. Like Gail said, when Rex is bad, he's bad. But also remember, when Rex is good, he's GREAT. This inconsistency though does make him look like the ladder-day Brett Favre rather then a Tom Brady, but I guess that's the difference between a quarterback and a great quarterback. With this said, here's two topics I want to argue:

1. Taking Rex out to put in Griese in a meaningless game to the standings would've been the worst idea Lovie could've had. Really, what would've been the point to it? Maybe Griese makes the game interesting, and then the media sparks up a pointless controversey out of nowhere. How could it be good for the team in the long run? We have to realize that Rex's style of play is mostly confidence, so what's the point of rattling him up all over again before he completely breaks down? Especially when Griese isn't half the quarterback Rex is when they both have good days?

Also realize Rex just isn't the quarterback this year, but he's going to be the QB the year after, and the year after that, and the year after that. So even if we don't win the SuperBowl this year, I'd rather have one quarterback that I put all of my confidence who I know I can trust and can lead my team in the future after he improves with experience then shake it up over one measly game.

2. The idea that the Bears should have an identity change and return to the boring run the ball/win on defense is fine and all, but it's fine if you enjoy losing in the second round of the playoffs every year. If it hasn't worked in the past, then what makes us think it would all of a sudden work now? Do we realize who our back-field contains? I mean sure, I love having Jones and Benson, but if the Bears are coming to town and I'm an opposing fan I don't think to myself "Oh wow! Jones is coming to town, I gotta get tickets!" I hate to say it, but compared to teams like the Chargers, Patriots, Chiefs, and Giants, our running game isn't really that amazing, and it's definitely not good enough to carry a team to a championship.

So basically, I'm ready for the Bears to live and win by the long ball, but I'm also ready for them to lose and die by the long ball too. At least this way we'll score points.

- Also, would any of you ever argue that Tom Brady should've been taken out of the Patriots/Colts game after he was having troubles? Didn't think so...

- I'll have more about this weekend as it comes, but I wanted to go over the past weeks game so maybe we can all just move on from it. It's just one loss... it'll be ok. Now let's make Plexico Burress stop running his mouth and win a game!