I miss Derrick Rose...

The Bears are mediocre, plain and simple.  J-Cutty and Forte are stuck playing behind a line that could maybe play for a Division 1-AA contender.  House of Spears and his buddies were applying pressure and forcing J-Cutty to run for his life on what seemed like every passing down.  Their defense completely outclassed the Bears' front five.  Running between the tackles was out of the question.  J-Cutty played a hell of a game, imagine what he could have done if he didn't have large men chasing him out of the pocket everytime.  Injuries-shminjuries.  Even if the Bear Jew played, Gabe wouldn't have made much of the a difference.  Frank Omiyale should not be on an NFL roster.  Devin Hester is not a real WR.  He made one difficult catch, but missed an easy catch that would have put the Bears at the Lions' 5-yd line.  Stick to kick returns you hack.  The Bears' pass rush is non-existent.  The secondary is pitiful.  Jahvid Best had not rushed for more than 75 yards in a single game of his career.  He had a TD run of 80 yards alone.  Chris Harris came back from injury and spent most of his comeback getting burned.  Sometimes I wish the didn't lift the NFL lockout.  Can't sell the Lions short though.  Megatron is an impossible cover and Suh is a beast.  The Lions are good and the Bears deserve to be where they are.  That is, drowning in mediocrity thanks to Jerry Angelo and his incompetence as a GM.  Bears fans should protest the Bears management like those hippies on Wall Street.  They are the 1% that believe Jerry should still have a job.  #OccupyHallasHall

In other news, David Stern officially cancelled the first 2 weeks of the NBA season.  BOOOO.  Unlike the NFL lockout, NBA owners lost money last year and are prepared to cancel the whole season unless there are changes in revenue sharing and player contracts.  The owners believe that once the players start missing paychecks their tune will change and they will cave.  The players believe they deserve more money and are unyielding in their stance that they do.  The fans go to the arenas to watch the players play, not to watch the owners own.  They aren't settling for anything less than 53% of the revenue even though the owners just offered them an even 50-50 split.  Who's right in this situation?  No one really.  Is it Rashard Lewis' fault that the Magic were dumb enough to offer him a bloated $120M contract even though he wasn't worth it?  What was he supposed to say? "Listen Otis. Thanks for the offer, but I think you're over-valuing me a bit.  I'm fine with half of that"
 No of course not, but there should be something in the new CBA that will hinder a GM's stupidity of offering horrible contracts. 

The NBA's popularity will take a huge hit.  After years of being on the back burner among casual sports fans, the 2010-2011 NBA season was one of the best in terms of popularity.  Between the surge of new likeable talent (DRose, Durantula, TheBlakeShow, etc.), the drama of Miami Heat's successes and failures, the emergence of small market teams (OKC & Memphis), and the renascence of large market teams (Chicago and NY), the popularity of the NBA was at an all time high since the Jordan years.

As much as I'm excited to watch college bball and IU's incoming talented white boy class (read: overrated), the NBA is far more entertaining.  Hearing about billionaires and millionaires fighting over money is ridiculous.  However, I don't think they're gonna come to an agreement anytime soon.

COMMIT TO THE CHIEF!!!!