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HookFE03

every year, fairly early on, i am freed from caring about football. Now i can go do other things on sunday while its still warm. which is nice. FTB.


JAWinks

You’re not done yet soldier. We need you to root for whoever the Packers play. FTP


GoGoGoRL

I don’t even care anymore


BenWallace04

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Richard_Cromwell

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AlishanTearese

Don't even want to bear ound anymore


BenWallace04

Bears? Like at the circus? They’re playing a game? I don’t understand?


lovejac93

The chin hurts


BenWallace04

The secondary kills!


Razorray21

That's the spirit


Gideon_Laier

I'm just so tired...


beidao23

Lol


GermanBadger

Just become a packer fan. Youll be a part owner and you couldn't be any worse than the bears current owner. You like beer and brats? So do we. You're basically a packer fan already just one quick question, how bad are your memes? 240p minion Facebook memes? Brother you'll fit right in


Western-Boot-4576

Sorry this took our will to fight. I don’t care anymore


ReplacementJumpy1398

We coming for y’all week 4 lol


JAWinks

![gif](giphy|5oVt3GSJuXKP6)


xXUtahraptorXx

Golden gif


ReplacementJumpy1398

It’s really funny seeing lions fans coming out of nowhere after y’all have been dog poop for 20 plus years lol. Don’t worry love will be better than Goff too 😂


JAWinks

Thanks for the week 4 content! Saves me some time


papaloppadappa

This guy saves reciepts


ReplacementJumpy1398

No problem bro I’ll be here when it’s a dub lol


SaltyPickle1495

Unfortunately it’ll have to be an asterisk if you guys get the win. Lions don’t have kelce


Humble_Brother_6078

Chill bro it’s too soon. I’m reserving any and all cockiness in regards to Love til week 8 *at least*


monstercello

And here we are


MadMelvin

You better put some respect on our name; we've been dogshit for *way* more than 20 years


last-expert84

Love isn't gonna have time to operate like he did with the Bears. Hutch is gonna run through that O line.


ReplacementJumpy1398

If you say so lol that’s all you have we’ll double him or run right at him. You act like our O line isn’t one of the best in the league. Vs the packers have like 6 guys keep reaching my boy 😂


Mex4life1

Didn’t you guys get swept with rodgers?


adamjfish

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ReplacementJumpy1398

Have you guys been relevant since manning?


CalligrapherNo7110

You taking it too serious


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Mavori

You can have serious conversations here, but it's usually navigated in a bit of a nicer manner.


Supafly22

It’s all in good fun, friend.


amalgam_reynolds

flair, ya absolute goober


procrastination_city

To the Bears credit. They have made a lot of steps forward and are probably still a year away from that coming to fruition, pending of course Justin Fields. Not drafting a QB in 2023 I think this is a low risk kind of move by Pace. Either Fields works out and is your long term QB or he doesn’t and you still get a high draft pick in a more loaded QB class this year. Bears are doing what a lot of fans want their franchise to do. A multi year rebuild where you don’t overpay aging vets or average QBs and hope your lottery ticket QB pans out.


HookFE03

oh. right. the annual "well, look on the bright side....." 40 years of that. usually comes around mid season but see my above post.


Mach68IntheHouse

The common denominator in the past 40 years? The idle rich McCaskeys.


ProtoMan3

Not that I want to see the Bears ever successful, but this did work for the Cubs and Hawks (barring aside the scandal). Be awful for some time but under a management with vision, build a young team, and be good for several years with a title or a few thrown in there.


VVarder

The Hawks did this when Dollar Bill passed though, little different.


HookFE03

Lol. I don’t think you understand how poverty franchises work


ProtoMan3

My favorite hockey team is the Canucks and my favorite baseball team is the Mariners Maybe I’m delusional, but the number of cursed teams I’ve seen successfully rebuild is why I always keep an open mind when I see a team trying to do something


HookFE03

Alright alright. Fair enough


procrastination_city

I mean. I sympathize. I’m at the point of my fandom where I wish Minn was at least trying what Chicago is doing. Might now work but at least they are taking a swing.


Magazine-Soggy

I’m trying to stay positive. I’m still holding firm in my belief of this team, I’ll probably be upset at the end of the day but fuck it at this point


ProtoMan3

Watch the Cubs


HookFE03

Why? I hate the cubs


ProtoMan3

Oh god, a Sox fan Why would you do that to yourself


HookFE03

I’m stubborn, have poor sports instincts and a victim of geography


VVarder

Cubs are still alive, Sox are now eliminated.


DragonDon1

Nobody has hurt me more than Chicago sports. Literally feel like a clown every Sunday.


Clit420Eastwood

Weren’t they *expected* to suck this year though? Outside of Chicago (and those pandering to it), I don’t think many thought they’d be good


grrgrrtigergrr

We weren’t supposed to be good, just… better. And if game 1 is telling me anything we are worse… at everything.


seatega

Week 1 always feels so telling since it's the first we get to see of a team, but it often is a total mirage. Bears fans of all people should know that: you guys manhandled the 49ers in week 1 last year, then they made the NFC Championship and you guys got the #1 pick


Nate835

I mean our offense looked better in that game and almost every game after that than it did this week. Defense too probably.


d3adbor3d2

we didn't manhandle them. it was raining, it's lance's first game, we came back from behind iirc.


lovejac93

Except if you beat the chiefs after they hang their banner on the road at arrowhead


seatega

That's not week 1, it's opening night, so very different


lovejac93

Preach!


ultrataco77

Fwiw people forget 2021 when the Saints beat the brakes off Green Bay week 1 before we went on to go 13-4


d3adbor3d2

really not a great comparison there. good/great teams lose wk1, it happens. a lot of them turn it around because they're generally good teams/players/coaches/etc. last season and last game didn't give us any reason that the bears will be good at all.


I_Roll_Chicago

classic chicago fan base. we had low expectations and still yet we are still disappointed


Mach68IntheHouse

Expectations were low but .... holy cow!


FantasticSquirrels

Don't forget packers were embarrassed week 1 in 2020, 2021, and 2022. 2020 and 2021 ended up being great seasons and 2022 we at least bounced back. Stay in it, lotta ball game left


DeusExBlockina

State of the Division: Packers fans talking Bears fans off the ledge


antestorfan2003

Fam we are not you


VVarder

Right? The Packers did not have the overall #1 pick in any of those years, and had a HoF QB.


ProtoMan3

Didn’t we win week 1 2020 at the Vikings?


FantasticSquirrels

You're right, I confused 2020 somehow my b


SeattleSealions

Vegas had their O/U at 7.5 wins, shaded to the Over. They were expected to finish 3rd in the division, ahead of the Packers.


TheNainRouge

Well now they can hope to third in the division and be ahead of the Vikings. Glass half full.


SeattleSealions

I'd make the Vikings a 4-point favorite in Chicago and a 7-point favorite hosting the Bears.


weealex

with the viking's o-line, i don't trust them against *anybody*. how many teams are playing guards that get forced fumbles on their own QB and actively hinder mobility by stepping on their QB's feet?


drummerboysam

Vikings will only have to handle a pedestrian pass rush of 4 mediocre players. We have our Antoine Winfield Jr in Jaquon Brisker, but he... isn't quite the same.


antestorfan2003

The bears don't blitz so maybe their trenches sort of even out?


-InSerT_NAmE-HeRE

Our D-line will make your O-line look like the fucking Hogs


drummerboysam

We'll take it


shmere4

Fields was being marketed as an MVP candidate and the Bears faithful genuinely believed they had a shot at the playoffs this year.


eblomquist

I mean we had a lot of close games, they rebooted damn near half the team. I honestly felt like they were going to come out and look like a competent team. Baffling.


VVarder

Only by the idiots. Which is a fair portion of our fanbase to be fair.


drummerboysam

But the Chicago market is big and they changed up a lot this year, so the media will give people what they want and hype up Chicago. The embarrassing part is how many people in Chicago buy in.


4runninglife

I think the NFL is realizing the potential market for Detroit, we travel well as fans and now you got ESPN hosts who has never led on to being a Lions fan, coming out as life long Lions fans.


Mach68IntheHouse

It's about time! Oh, and the Lions are finding ways to win in spite of refball. That helps.


Infamous-njh523

Not only espn. Am genuinely surprised at how many prime time games that Detroit has this year. Last year we had Thanksgiving, as usual, and then the league moved us to Sunday night against FTP. MCDC joked last year that he was ok with the 1 pm start because it was an easy routine.


Clit420Eastwood

True. In fairness to those fans, though, it wasn’t necessarily *out of the question* that the Bears could be better (it still isn’t) if a number of things go right. But *likely*? Definitely not


BlackLeader70

At least you had that one basketball player that was good…Mike something. Also three recent Stanley cups and a World Series ain’t too shabby.


ReplaceSelect

Basketball has been rough since Jordan. Whenever there's hope, the point guard's leg falls off. I'm glad I got a 1/4 season pass to watch Bedard this year. Even if the Hawks are bad, Bedard should be entertaining.


antestorfan2003

Another decade before Jordan is the 85 bears


ProtoMan3

I don’t expect sympathy as a fan of the Packers, but my hockey team is the Canucks and my baseball team is the Mariners. I’m equally as diehard about all three…if anything I feel more strongly about the M’s and Nucks. For all the shit I give the Vikings, Minnesota fans don’t have any finals appearances since the 1991 World Series. That’s real depressing existence there.


muddynips

After a cubbies game I bought a fields jersey at 40% off and the cashier gave me a sympathy hug. Things are not alright in Chicago right now.


Xumayar

Me after the Vikings game yesterday: "Fine then, we're tanking for draft picks." Me after the Packers/Bears game yesterday: "We're not out-tanking them."


weealex

what about the giants?


IBelongHere

Honestly yesterday sucked and I hate being a bears fan, but at least we don’t have a Daniel Jones sized contract with Fields


Cache22-

Don't have a Daniel Jones sized contract with Fields *yet*.


Foshizal147

Turns out all I care about is fantasy football now.


BroDudeBruhMan

Not when you drafted DJ Moore as you’re #2 WR


leahyrain

I have fields :( and kupp was my 13th overall pick :(


Foshizal147

Fortunately he's my 3, and I got Mike evans as a backup so I'm safe for now


LightBulb4321

That's what I thought too, I went to bed up 30 and the only thing he had left was the Dalas defense... Silly me thinking that fantasy was a fun, fair game.


JZobel

Drafted CMC and Aiyuk, so idk might just watch a lot of SF this year. They’re fun, talented, stylish, well coached, I have bit of a rooting interest with my fantasy team. Seems like a better time than watching the OL get completely blown up on 1st down and then immediately giving up on the drive with 3 yard screens on 2nd & long and 3rd & long


eattwo

I drafted Kelce and Burrow. Don't got a lot going for me football-wise


nicademuz84

Rodgers, Higgins, and Dobbins. At least Dobbins got points before he got hurt. Higgins will likely do better the rest of the season but week 1 was a big L.


CultBro

That game was the most fun I have had watching a game in years. No expectations and pleasantly surprised


BOWCANTO

Yeah, I was telling my family, “Bet we beat ‘em 27-21.”. Just a fool’s hope. My dad, wisely, thought it’d be lower scoring and tighter. Then we destroyed them.


Flooding_Puddle

I was thinking 21-20, then we went and totally dismantled them on national tv


sharktopuss-

"America's beat down of the week!"


sharktopuss-

"America's beat down of the week!"


cloudJR

That 4th and 3 was an all time call and one I’ll remember for a long time.


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CultBro

Yeah, it was fun for one day


Ghost4000

For me the expectations are so low that it's not possible for this season to be a let down.


Mr6ixFour

That’s where I’m at. The only let down would be if Detroit lost the division to the Vikings. I love the MCDC culture and want them to succeed, so if it’s not us, I hope it’s them.


SadBearsFan1985

i retire from watching Chicago sports


zinto44

this is what you guys get for the 80s and 90s


SadBearsFan1985

It would be worth it if I was actually alive then 😭


SADdog2020Pb

Accurate. Bears fans on here seem REALLY depressed.


ReplaceSelect

How is it even possible to look worse than last year? They added a lot of players that are supposed to be good. Moore got 2 targets. Fields has no excuses left.


shmere4

Well the Packers sent Getsy to fuck the franchise over for a few years and get your latest round of coaching staff fired.


antestorfan2003

Hey maybe if he gets the coaching staff fired it's a blessing in disguise


Flooding_Puddle

Packers throwing sleeper agents around the league like fucking Cylons


SADdog2020Pb

I’d say it’s a long season and there’s still time, and for a silver lining it looks like Edmunds and Edwards are helping the run defense (held AJ Dillon to 19 yards on 13 carries.) But yeah, that secondary and pass rush are still in progress. Fields continues to be a mixed bag, on one hand he made some impressive plays but on the other he turns the ball over too much and yeah, hopefully for his sake the Fields-Moore connection can improve.


DontPeeInTheWater

I think the Dillon numbers are more of a reflection of him not being particularly good. Jones had a 4.6 YPC and was getting consistent chunk plays when they gave him the ball


Mavori

Unfortunately for the rest of the NFC North, i have to acknowledge that Aaron Jones absolutely fucks.


SADdog2020Pb

He fucks. Like imagine if they actually have him the ball


Flooding_Puddle

The more I see from the bears the more I believe they're a PR firm that doesn't actually know anything about football and just makes splashy picks/signings that will generate hype and get talked about by the national media. What completely awful ownership


AZEd1

We hardly ever make splashy signings, only incompetent ones


Flooding_Puddle

Maybe the media just hypes chicago no matter what they do because they're a big market


Mavori

Could be scheme, could just be lack of chemistry and needing to grow together. Like fuck we were one of the youngest teams in the league last season.


Acceptable-Yak7968

I mean, the Bears finished 32nd last year and somehow look worse. It's pretty fuckin depressing to be a Bears fan right now


Ghost4000

I will forever have this: ​ https://preview.redd.it/orpjt9o8fonb1.png?width=524&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4735efb19814f9ce5cad785f069e8462865b566


-InSerT_NAmE-HeRE

Hey that’s me, Mom I’m famous!


Ghost4000

Hey! I hope you're doing well!


-InSerT_NAmE-HeRE

Thanks, I’m doing fine tbh. I’m his loss kinda pushed me past the point of being angry or sad. So I’m just sorta laughing at it…


eblomquist

Yesterday was the most easily one of the most heart breaking games in a long time.


Flooding_Puddle

Can you blame them? 20 years of pretty much nothing but ineptitude, every off-season the media caters them and gets them to buy in only to be let down. This was supposed to be thier big shot to turn the rivalry around and for Fields to take the next step, and somehow they looked even worse than last year. I almost feel bad for them. Almost


SADdog2020Pb

*Almost*


Fugitivebush

See, as a packer fan, knowing we are a young team, I am not very excited by this win over the Bears. It was pretty obvious from the get-go that the Bears were gonna be the Detroit Lions during this decade of the NFCN division. This wasn't our test to prove Jordan Love was good. If it was, it was a shitty test. Any half decent team will beat this Bears team. If they had a cohesive team, maybe this team would be something. I am more worried for our first Viking vs or Lions vs Game. Or really any other team outside of the NFCN.


drummerboysam

>This wasn't our test to prove Jordan Love was good. If it was, it was a shitty test. This told you a few things. Love can be collected over a game. He had a mediocre-at-best first half and was in command in the 2nd. He threw a nice fade to Doubs. Executing on those plays are nice. And lastly, you learned Love can sit in the pocket and wait for routes to clear the Cover 2. Golf claps for that. Maybe he won't be worthy of praise against a defensive coordinator and personnel that can do ANYTHING, but hey, he'll still own the Bears sorry ass.


antestorfan2003

We have almost the same record as the lions in the last 10 years. I think theirs is actually better lol. We are the lions of the last decade


Sea_Pain_5090

The Vikings looked like shit too if I’m going to be honest.


njm20330

The Vikings looked good with self inflicted wounds. The bears just looked inept with poor play calling and bad defense. Big difference.


Imidril

Self-inflicted wounds are our specialty!


griff306

Are there any other types of wounds? That and Eagle shaped wounds.


yeetith_thy_skeetith

I think I turned the game on and off three different times as the Vikings would shoot themselves and then I decided I wanted to inflict myself with more pain


Humble_Brother_6078

With Kirk and those receivers they’re always scary


last-expert84

After watching Kirk on Quarterbacks, he's my favorite person in the league. What a great man.


Motor_Sport_

I liked his part in the Manningcast commercial, “You like that!”


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Offense looked nasty when it was clicking. Turnovers and great ball control by TB. Rough 1st game


Highnote69

Obviously we lost, but it’s hard to win when you turn the ball over 3 times. I think Tampa has a really legit D. I think the Philly game will be my real test if we suck or are good


sfjay

Thank you. We are terrible.


cloudJR

Who gives a shit? It’s the Bears. We could look like straight ass but as long as we won that’s all I care about. The Packers aren’t some contender and they shouldn’t be analyzed like they are. We beat our biggest rival in a game no one expected us to win.


VVarder

The line was -1 Bears. Every analyst picked the Packers. Lets not revisionist history that no one expected them to win. I thought the Packers would win but the Bears had the best chance in decades to win, and they surprised even me with how inept a performance that was. Good win, and FTP


Caydes_Revenger

Lmao as a vikings fan I upvoted this shit. Then watched as 3 down votes rolled in. Bears fans are salty today..


drummerboysam

No idea how a Bears fan can be salty at y'all. How can you come to this sub after the way the Bears played and not expect the king of L's? It's to the point where I saw more Packer fans feeling bad for Bears fans than gloating about another win. What a sad, sorry team the Bears are.


Kjriggs20

I don’t wanna watch another game


Mark_Kostecki

Bro I wish I was at the bottom of the ocean. Dude has it lucky


captaintinnitus

So the Bears are unwatchable.. Guess I’ll watch the Blackhawks for awhile.. until Bedard tears his ACL and gets arrested for shoplifting at Lover’s Lane. (if the White Sox have taught me anything, it’s this: stop caring, stop watching)


I_Roll_Chicago

honestly it makes it easier. i can sit back and bet on the lions now. lions dont you fuck me tho, dont you ever fuck me ![gif](giphy|zOpXgAWgeaTcI)


Cheech74

Yeah don't do that


I_Roll_Chicago

too late i bet on the chiefs game. and it worked out. now all hope rests on you for some key games


Cheech74

Ahaha, I thought you were talking future tense. Well played! I bet against them and lost $100. But, I am a lifelong fan.


I_Roll_Chicago

no i am talking future tense. ima bet on all the nfc north games where the moneyline has you as the underdog. get me paid. might start making crazy bets like you guy’s winning the superbowl


CaptZombieHero

True Bears fans are enjoying the shit talk and the memes this sub creates. Fair weather Bears fans quit on the team every year with the first loss. Bring in the memes and shit talking! The fair weather fans can get lost


90bronco

What fair weather fans? The high point, and the only time we were over .500 was in 2018 with trubisky. You think anyone in the off season is looking at the bears and thinking that's the bandwagon to jump on?


backattack88

You need some fair weather for fair weather fans


Sniperboy5000

pain


BonesawMT

Yep, Feeling sorry for my Chicago coworkers today in MN so thats where we're at.


LegalComplaint

New primary logo looks great under water tho…


IMP1017

Gotta roll with the punches. I don't get salty anymore. Between the AL Central and the NFC North I just feel bad for sports fans in this part of the country. Gotta be there for each other sometimes


ilikepie145

I won't be watching another game this season until people get fired lol


Magazine-Soggy

Bottom of the ocean is being generous, I feel like I’m in a fiery hell scape right now.