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Feels like when the Bears lost to the Niners in the play offs.   Came back strong the next year.

We all know how that ended up.


They will re-focus and be better next year.  Trubisky and the WR's get another year in the offense.  Hopefully we keep Fangio.


If not surely there is someone on the staff who can step up.

Not sure why teams look at kickers as chump change. I think Parkey is every bit as important as Mack is. He actually puts points on the board, except tonight when he was needed. Mack didn't do much all game and Parkey could have been the difference, SHOULD have been, really. He made the first and shanked the second. Not sure how they got that TO in to stop him like that because it looked like it was a good play. But they gave em the TO. But there was a lot of bad this game. Trubisky not keeping drives going, the D letting the Eagles march downfield, for whatever reason getting away from running Howard, some of the stupid play calling again and once again, a doink off the uprights for the umpteenth time this season. Parkey will be kicking his pet poodle during next season. Who's going to want him? In a game that mattered the most, the worst of the Bears showed up and upended everything....

The kicking has been a clusterf*ck all season.  It cost a first round bye and now a playoff game.  Anyone could have seen it coming.  This BS narrative that “there’s no one out there...”. There had to be someone out there who could make a 35 yard FG.

The defense played well enough to win...Trubisky played great when it counted, some beautiful, clutch 4th quarter passes....had us right there for the winning kick.

Sh*t....

From the Trib, a excerpt.....next seasons success is not promised and we've seen it before...so this loss really really sucks.

>>But the football gods often operate with a “Nothing is ever easy” ruthlessness. So rather than allow a fun-filled journey up the NFL mountain to continue, they hit the Bears with an avalanche, sending them back to the bottom, left to start the climb all over again in eight months.

That added to the heaviness in the locker room. The Bears had a genuine belief they could win the Super Bowl in four weeks.

“That’s what makes this so hard,” Robinson said. “Our season just ended. And now coming back here next year, everything is going to be twice as hard. I can tell you that much. … One of my old coaches always told me, the better you play, the better you have to play.

“I know that for a fact. Coming in next year, we’re going to have to be twice as good in OTAs as we were this year, twice as good in camp and twice as good during the regular season.”

Even then, nothing will be promised.

In the NFL, even when a window appears to be opening for a team, it can slam shut with the swiftness and finality of a guillotine blade.

In 2001, the Bears enjoyed a similar season to this, a surprising worst-to-first leap. That Bears team, like this one, won games in so many different ways. That Bears team, like this one, won the division. That Bears team, like this one, charged into the postseason on a four-game winning streak.

And then that Bears team lost its playoff opener. At home. To the Eagles.

The Bears lost a dozen times the next season and didn’t get back to the playoffs for three more years after that.

The Super Bowl Bears of 2006 thought they would have many more chances to replace the gut-punch of a 29-17 loss to the Colts with a feeling of pure euphoria. The franchise, though, made it back to the postseason just once in the next 11 years.

Now? The Bears’ drought without a playoff victory will enter Year 9.

“This hurts, man,” Trevathan said. “It really does. We had so many chances to execute and couldn’t get it done.”

He shook his head in disbelief. In one cruel moment, everything had ended. By midweek, Halas Hall will be empty.

“When you lose,” Nagy said, “the next day, it’s like a bomb hits and everyone is gone.”

There’s just no way.

dwiederer@chicagotribune.com

Cannot say it enough, nothing is guaranteed for next year.  Trubisky could get a season ending injury in the preseason, you just never know.  The Jags thought this was their year, it wasn't.  Do we have good young team, yeap for sure, but it does not mean we will be back.  Too many factors, the stars have to align.

Heard there's a gofundme to buyout his contract. Heck, I'd throw a couple in the hat....they absolutely cannot go into next season with that sucker on their payroll. Don't think it's possible anyway as the fans want to lynch him.

Yeah, a lot of us could and would chip in, but thats not the issue. I am not in disagreement that a go fund me page will be started. I just believe the league wouldnt allow it because it would circumvent the cap rules in place. As for the money, the McCaskeys have the money. We know that, we arent morons you know. Its the cap issue.. The league would fight that tooth and nails.

Agree, Hiber. The Bears have a history of this and yeah yeah history don't matter bs whatever, but it does matter. Fangio could get a HC job and that turns the D totally upside down. There are so many factors that go into a winning season, a huge one being lucky with injuries and another having the ball bounce your way. Next season, the balls could bounce to the other team. The int's may not be there. Mack could get injured or Hicks. To say yeah they'll be back is to totally lack understanding of what it really takes to get there in the first place.....I said the Eagles were going to be tough, they weren't going to be a cakewalk and that the Bears might lose. Nahhhhh...Bears take this....
how's that thinking today??.....