(Audacy) The positivity surrounding the Bears was short-lived. After their 40-20 win in Washington on Oct. 5, the Bears fell flat at home in a 19-13 loss to the Vikings on Sunday. On top of that, quarterback Justin Fields exited the game due to a right hand injury and is expected to miss time, starting with Chicago's game against Las Vegas this Sunday.
On the Audacy original podcast 1st & Pod, 670 The Score afternoon host Danny Parkins ranted about where the Bears are at as a franchise, how exhausting pressing the reset button is and the lack of continuity in Chicago.
“It really feels like coach: bad," Parkins said (38:40 in the player above). "Quarterback: bad. Line: bad. GM: maybe bad. He hired the coach, he traded for (Chase) Claypool, but he also traded the No. 1 pick for DJ Moore and picked the Panthers to do the trade with. Some of his draft picks look good. They’ve got a lot of cap space, but are they hitting the reset button again?
“It’s exhausting to hit the reset button. And if you hit the reset button and you draft a new quarterback, you can’t give him Matt Eberflus, so now you’re firing another coach just two years after you hired him. And then should you hire a new GM so that for the first time in forever you have a quarterback, a coach, and a GM all brought in together? That makes a lot of sense. But now you’re changing it up again.”
The Bears are now 4-19 in Eberflus' tenure. After Lovie Smith was the face on the Bears' sideline for nine seasons from 2004-'12, Chicago is now on its fourth head coach in the last 11 seasons.
“The beauty of the competent organizations is they’ve got continuity," Parkins said. "They’ve got an identity. They know who they are. They know what they want to be. They know what they’ve been. The Bears, it’s Marc Trestman and then it’s John Fox and then it’s Matt Nagy and then it’s Matt Eberflus."
While winning organizations establish an identity, the Bears are still searching for theirs.
“It’s old-school defensive coach, old defensive coach and then young innovative weird offensive coach and then back to old defensive coach, then back to an offensive coach,” Parkins said. “They don’t know what they want to be.
“And then this GM has to inherit this coach and then this coach has to inherit this quarterback and then this quarterback gets pawned off on this GM. It never makes any sense. It never makes any sense. They can’t even snap the ball!”
The Bears are 1-5 as they prepare to host the Raiders (3-3) on Sunday at Soldier Field.