The one proven fact for the Chicago Bears is that the McCaskey family may have become more obsessed with the team's perception than wins on the field.
After all, the McCaskey family had a strict no-profanity rule this past summer when the Bears were included in HBO's Hard Knocks. There was no censoring the Bears fans at Soldier Field on Thursday during the team's 6-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
Throughout the game, as the Amazon Prime cameras were not shying from spotlighting Ryan Poles and Kevin Warren, there were "sell the team" chants that could be heard clearly no matter if you were a fan in the stadium or watching in the comfort of your home.
"SELL THE TEAM!" chants broke out from Bears fans at Soldier Field tonight.
— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) December 27, 2024
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For the second time this season, the Bears were embarrassed during a national game. This time, Poles, Warren, and The McCaskey family could not project their failures onto Matt Eberflus. Eberflus was fired after the Bears' debacle on Thanksgiving, and this past Thursday may have signaled the end of Poles' tenure as general manager.
That question will need to be answered this offseason but one thing the Bears can't hide from is the fact they have become a national embarrassment. If it wasn't Al Michaels or Kirk Herbstreit making light of the Bears' incompetence, then it is the team being a punchline on local airwaves.
"They are a national embarrassment," Mully says of the Bears.
— 670 The Score (@670TheScore) December 27, 2024
"They're a local disgrace and a national punch line," @DavidHaugh says.
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Outside of the flashes from Caleb Williams this season that point to him being the answer for the Bears at the quarterback position, nothing has gone right for the Bears' organization. For the first time in the history of the organization, the Bears fired a head coach in-season. The person who decided to bring Eberflus back for a third season, Ryan Poles, is being exposed with each passing week. The person Poles reports to, Kevin Warren, has failed to have the shovel in the ground for a new stadium by the end of this year.
Nothing has gone right for the Bears in 2024 and the common denominator remains The McCaskey Family. A family born into football but has no knowledge of how to run a football organization.