Then again, I’d be upset if I’ve given up 14 special teams points.

Tough loss. Gotta say though, we didn’t lose that bad on the road to the Bears. If we can hold home field in the division, we’ll be alright. Tough loss but not season ending

yeah that was fucking pathetic, seriously, Special teams Coach needs to be fired NOW, if anyone is to blame its the fucking special teams coach and Gus.

Chilly did a much better job play calling but it was still predictable and boring, I feel like while he tries to learn, he cant learn quick enough and that my friends is simply someone who cannot coach a team well.

Special teams, we have to be the worst special teams team in the league. No no make that the world. Are you fucking kidding me? HOWWWWWWWW do we suck SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad on special teams?

I’ll take the unpopular route and say that I’m encouraged. A team can’t lose any worse than they just did, so things must be looking up!

…right…?

Course they can, we seem to try and lose every week, hell we almost lost to the fucking Lions.

Special Team Coach was dropped off at the Bus Station (South Side) for his return trip back. Ziggy u got to say good bye to Brad or u will never get the stadium. 41 points and u lose u got to be kidding us!!

to have ANYONE IN THE WORLD on our sidelines coaching us, minus childress bevell and whomever the fuck our special teams coach is. Seriously did they pick these people up off the side of the highway and invite them for job interviews?

how much you guys are criticizing the special teams coach. Gordon and Kluwe are the only ones to blame as far as special teams goes. I suppose you could also knock childress for not kicking it away to the bears in the beginning. That was stupid. A couple mistakes were what lost this game, not the ST coach. Also, anyone wanna see someone else like aundrae allison return kicks instead of this Hicks guy? He makes no moves, the lanes are there and he just runs into people.

but I can’t blame Chili for today. Our offense moved the ball at will. Our D calls were solid…the players just missed some key tackles. Every facet of our “Special” Teams is a joke though.

Special Teams and the players lost this one for us. Too bad because it’s rare when Chili outcoaches anyone…which he did today. Sad to say..and we still lost.

I’m still OK if Zygi wants to fire him though…

If you give up two “instant touchdowns” on special teams, one-man goof ups, and also throw four picks, you rarely win. Techno-conspiracy theorists will tell you that the Bears used a Soviet-developed, remote-controlled ball to target Gordon’s arm. Punter haters will tell you that if any guy wears a football uniform, he should at least study the rules of American football rather than just boning up on those of Guitar Hero. I’m sure if T-Jack had thrown the four picks, his detractors would have informed us of their inherent righteousness. That is all eye of the beholder stuff (a.k.a. crap). The fact is, sometimes you outplay your opponents and you lose; sometimes you get outplayed and you still win. If you can’t stand it, please take up crocheting. This is how American football works. The ball has points on its ends by design, or as the late Billy Preston would have sung for us, “I got a story ain’t got no moral; let the bad guy win every once in a while.”

feelings about this game. on the one side, our offense moved the ball seemingly at will, and scored a sh!t ton of points today. but the O line was horrid, did not block well for Purple Jesus or Gus Gus. The D as a whole, played sporadicaly. While the D line played well, JA had 2 sacks and a forced fumble, And Kevin Williams was a force in hte middle, but our secondary played like crap. Orton passed at will much of the game. And then there is the special teams. Horibble Squib kick to start the game, giving the Bears O short field and an easy path to their first TD. Fumbled punt leading to 1 touchdown. Fumbled Return leading to another touchdown. While both had the flavor of fluckish, at least our coverage was fairly solid.

Let me start by saying, I hate that Brad Childress is the coach of the Minnesota Vikings. I went to my first Vikes game at the old Met in 1978, have been a fan ever since, and hate to see my favorite team in shambles.

I’ve been through Love Boat, Les Steckel, and Randy Moss’ annual embarrassing (yet hilarious) arrests. I’ve been through Denny’s Take a Knee, what’s-his-name from the Cardinals knocking us out of the playoffs, and 41-donut. At none of those points have I ever felt as hopeless as I do these days under the stewardship of Brad Childress.

That’s what is going to make this next statement so shocking, so unexpected, so…I don’t know…utterly meaningles since it will never lead to anything.

Brad Childress coached his ass off today.

Let’s take a moment to let that sink in…

Brad Childress made all the right calls today. I know when we get it in our heads that we don’t like someone, we want to attribute everything bad that happens in a game to that person. And Chili has earned that – his predictable play-calling, his inability to make adjustments, and his inexplicable love of punting when he’s trailing with no chance to get the ball back.

But today, he got it right. Our Offense moved the ball at will, he instructed his kickers to stay away from Hester, and the Defense was as stout as ever. Don’t believe me? Consider this:

The Bears scored 3 TD’s on fumble recoveries.
The Bears scored 1 TD on 6 yard drive from a Gus INT.
The Bears scored 1 TD on a simple slant pass to Marty Booker that turned into a 51 yard TD pass due to horrible execution in our secondary.
Ryan Longwell is a horrible pooch kicker
and
Chris Kluwe was pissing himself so bad about getting the ball out of bounds that he forgot to catch the ball.

That’s at least 35 of their 48 points that can be written off to crappy execution folks…not coaching! Before you go to the “Childress is responsible for having the players prepared” card, I want to say this: Childress can only make the call and hope the players execute. It didn’t happen today. At least today, for the first time, I saw a coach that made the right calls.

Oh, and by the way, I still hope Zygi fires his boring, humorless, mustacchioed ass!!!

…or whatever it was Forrest Gump said. As the good Muslim says, there are none perfect save Allah. I humbly must confess I’ve never seen a team that was in a “shambles” score five NFL offensive touchdowns in a game before. (Maybe I simply don’t visit enough shambles.) I have listened to coach Paul Ferraro at several special teams practices these past three years, and I’ve never once heard him say either “please take your eye off the football” or “don’t concern yourself with where the football is when you are near the goal line.” No, to the contrary, he actually tends to loudly say very worthwhile things, which (if executed) would result in more victories. One team or another usually loses every football game that is played, and if the long snap somehow rebounds from your fingers and you try to recover with a soccer pass to your opponent, and later that same day the same oddly shaped ball sneaks up on your return guy’s flailing arm in order to head itself toward the end zone, that losing team for this week is very likely to be yours, even if your RB posts a hundred and a half and your QB throws for nearly double that. For those who strive to see the glass as over 42 percent full: the Vikings will be unable to rest on their laurels over the bye week, since they don’t give out laurels after games like this.