Bears Dominate Glorified Scrimmage Game Pelting Commanders 40-20

I would not go anywhere with that pathetic excuse for a football game touted by the NFL as full go NFL Football.

Thursday Night Games are a deplorable cash grab. Sort of like games in the UK or Japan. It is not a full on NFL football game. The players don't have time to recover mentally or physically from their Sunday games. If the NFL did research, which apparently they don't, they would know that. 

I'm not restricting that to the losing team or making excuses for the losing team. I'm saying no matter who wins, these sleazy Thursday Night atrocities are not honest views of the teams involved because they simply are not operating at 100%.

It's a half-assed product. The ugliness of it all is the sole responsibility of the NFL. If the NFLPA had any horns, it would make Thursday Night Games a collective bargaining issue.

Coming to hasty conclusions about the Chicago Bears and the Washington Commanders based on a lousy money grubbing Thursday Night Game is an act of self-lobotomy, orchestrated with a knife and fork. 

That said, it is good to see a team come back from adversity and public opprobrium and win a ball game all their detractors contended they didn't have the football chutzpah to win. The Bears did that. They were fueled by the hate they were getting and they smacked the dickens out of the Commanders. 

Problem is that is twice now we've faced football teams the media was contending were public disgraces. We almost lost the first one. We would have lost it had the Cardinals been up to speed offensively. We were completely outclassed in the second one.

It is a commentary on mental toughness. It looked like the players didn't want to play. I don't blame them. I wouldn't want to play either. I don't want to watch Thursday Night Football not just because it is a rip-off of gargantuan proportions but because it is a WORK NIGHT.  It is clear the multi-millionaire League Executives have as little concern for the working stiff football fan as they have for the football players. They expect both to write checks their bodies can't cash.

So all you have to go on is your desire to win. This forcefed NFL contrivance still counts as a win if you score more than the other guy. 

I mean, when it comes to these slave mastering Thursday Night Clown Shows, I wouldn't play the starters. I'd play the second-teamers. They are guys who are likely to be physically fresher and eager to produce good film. There's the side benefit of developing your young talent. 

And hunger should not be a problem. We're never going to know, but I dare say the Washington Commander second teamers could have beaten the Bears if ony because they had the fire to match up well with the Bears mentally.

Because that's where the Bears won it. 

It is perplexing because more than a few Commanders are in their contract years. It is a big year for their families. It is a big year for them. And yet, should they look like they've had it with football, as they did against the Bears? 

You can talk about schemes. It may be naive to think a defense that is used to being on the field A LOT LESS would not experience culture shock being on the field more which correlates with having an offense that can score. Heinicke was boring but he kept Tom Brady off the field. The same defense that couldn't stop a tree sloth against the Bears once stopped Tom Brady. 

What a startling fall in quality.

That's why the running game is important. If you're not going to play EVERYBODY, you've got to keep the defense rested for a reasonable amount of time, sometimes an UNREASONABLE amount of time. It depends on what you're doing, but if you want to WIN with THIS TEAM you either have to keep your defense off the field or play EVERYBODY ON YOUR DEFENSIVE ROSTER.

If you are hesitating putting in your young guys on defense, the young pass rushers, the secondary guys, because you think they're not ready well there wasn't a hell of a lot of evidence your vets were ready. 

If you are going to play track meets, your young guys are going to have to grow up a hell of a lot sooner than wait until next year.

Yes, this staff should have worked on acquiring offensive line talent. They have probably mislaid their trust in the two-linebacker set. It seems they waited until their last year to find a quarterback. Not a good year to change the defensive signal-caller, your last year.

And playing track meet style offense probably puts a time-under-tension stress on your first eleven that they can't handle without playing "All-22" on defense.