Imrem: Why care for a Bears team that doesn't care?
The Bears left no questions unanswered Sunday night.
Did they run the ball? Yes, but not well enough to beat the run-vulnerable Packers.
Did Jay Cutler cut down on the turnovers? Yes, until he threw an interception nine minutes into the game.
Did the Bears get healthy during the bye week? Yes, but they made their fans sick almost before the first beer was poured.
Did the Bears overall make good use of their time off? Yes, if you can call being induced into a comatose state good use.
As if the Packers' 55-14 victory wasn't bad enough, their 42 first-half points was the most the Bears ever yielded in a half.
Losing to the Packers always jeopardizes job security at Halas Hall from the field on up to the executive washroom.
Losing to Green Bay like this should make the McCaskey ownership — a family that knows what the Bears-Packers rivalry is all about — think of firing themselves.
OK, that's hoping against hope.
Anyway, load everybody else on a fertilizer truck and ship them out, from the club president to the general manager to the head coach to the quarterback to anyone else with a “C” for crummy on some pierce of clothing.
Do it now. Do it before the next practice. Do it swiftly so, he said sarcastically, the McCaskeys can weave their hiring magic again.
Whenever I fire sports people in print, some readers write scolding me for suggesting that human beings with families be put out of work.
The rationale came to me while voting last week: If politicians perform poorly they should be kicked out of office, right?
Yes, they should be, and so should be sports figures who mess up this badly despite having such loyal fans who deserve much better.
The Bears provided so many answers in Lambeau Field that they left no mysteries unsolved.
It's clear that they do stink. They stink on offense. They stink on defense. They stink on special teams. They stink at coaching. They stink at general managing. They stink at owning.
If you thought the Bears embarrassed themselves in earlier losses, this had to set their all-time franchise record for embarrassment.
No longer is the issue whether this loss or that loss or any loss during this 3-6 Bears' season is the worst. Now the horizon has to be stretched back nearly a century.
Longtime fans have seen the Bears play awfully poorly at various points during however long their lifetimes are.
Still, this game had to set another record for lack of pride and passion. The term “once-proud and once-passionate franchise” comes to mind.
The Packers' lead was 21-0 after the first play of the second quarter and at that point the “Sunday Night Football” cameras caught some disgusting scenes.
There was Bears coach Marc Trestman looking like he was sniffling while looking down at his play card. There were Bears receivers loping around in circles. There was Cutler aimlessly throwing the ball out of bounds.
By that time, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was caught laughing with teammates on the sideline, and they weren't laughing with the Bears.
NBC announcers Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth were cracking jokes to their national audience at the Bears' expense.
That alone should make the McCaskeys do something dramatic. The family wants the Bears to be a family within a family, but it's time to put some people up for adoption.
Seriously, this loss made the 51-23 loss at New England in the Bears' previous game look competitive.
So here the Bears are, all dressed up with nowhere to go, with seven games remaining and with winter coming on strong.
A lot of people in this organization should be told where to go before the first snowfall.
mimrem@dailyherald.com