Written by Steve Rosenbloom at Baltimore Sun.com
Get a load of this quote:
“I think we had a great week of preparation. I think we had good plans really in all three phases.”
That came from the surprisingly still-employed mouth of John Fox right after the coach of the once-proud franchise formerly known as the Bears oversaw his team’s 36-10 humiliation at the hands of one of the worst teams in the NFL.
But here’s the thing: Those words could’ve been offered by Marc Trestman, the previous standing joke in Halas Hall who was fired because nonagenarian boss Virginia McCaskey got “pissed off” at the embarrassment.
Shouldn’t Mrs. McCaskey have reached that point again? Like, right now? How could she not?
Fox’s tenure has devolved into the Trestman tar pits. The parallels are pathetic and scary. Mirroring Trestman’s descent, Fox’s reign has turned worse in his second year than his first as his team displayed some of the weakest physical and mental aspects.
Already, in less than two full seasons, we have seen Fox’s teams pull off big wins on national television when it’s easy to prepare, only to dive-bomb into the toilet the following week or two.
Last season, the Bears beat the evil, dreaded Packers in Green Bay on Thanksgiving night, then gagged home games to the execrable 49ers andRedskins.
This season, of course, the once-proud franchise formerly known as the Bears beat the corpse formerly known as theVikings on “Monday Night Football” and experienced humiliation in Tampa by the worst home team not named the Browns— and this, mind you, followed an open date that allowed everyone to get healthy.
Trestman pretty much doomed himself when his team gave up a fiftyburger to the Patriots, then got a week off to regroup and came out of it by allowing the Packers to pound them with another fiftyburger.
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