| 21 September 2009
I try to DVR as much coverage of Chicago Bears and analysis as I can. I cover NFL network's coverage and of course the honks at ESPN. ESPN has a daily show that covers the NFL, NFL Live. Monday is for NFL Prime Time where they go in depth with their analysis and information from the weekend's games. Naturally last week the talk on ESPN was all about Jay Cutler's four interception game against the Green Bayh Packers.
ESPN apparently felt vindicated for all the trashing they did over Cutler throughout the off-season. Every clown from Trent Dilfer and Mark Schlereth to Mike and Mike in the morning (by far the worst radio show in the country) had plenty to say about Cutler's performance. The clowns were all ove Cutler, as if their expert analysis predicted this type of performance all along.
There is also the blatant homerism by former players who are now analysts, Keyshawn Johnson, Chris Carter, Schlereth and Merrill Hodge that typically gets in the way of non-biased balanced analysis. It seems the only one capable of not being biased is former Bears player and coach Mike Ditka who routinely rankles Bears fans by picking against them. Ditka did just this past week when he picked the Packers to beat the Bears.
So you would think after all the prognostication that went agains the Bears leading up to the match up against the Steelers that ESPN would step up and take their medicine. Oh how wrong you are in thinking that the Bears and Cutler would get some measure of respect after their victory over the defending world champion Steelers.
Nearly four hours of football coverage today from NFL Live to NFL Primetime to Monday Night countdown and not one person managed to say a nice thing about the Bears. Oh no they barely showed Bears high lites and then they cut to the next set of high lites involving the Patriots' loss to the Jets. From there it was analysis time regarding how bad the Pats played and how good Mark Sanchez will be.
Nope no time to talk about the Bears and how they knocked off the Steelers or how Cutler led the Bears' offense 97 yards down the field, the longest scoring drive against the Steelers in three years. No talk about how the no name receivers came up big for Cutler against this defense. Best to just ignore the fact that this ever happened, ignore that Cutler looked great, ignore the second largest media market in the country. Ignore that the Bears knocked off the defending world champions.
ESPN chose to just ignore the fact that the Bears and Jay Cutler proved them wrong and proved them to look like the biased out of touch sports network that they are. Full of their own sport analysis egos, and their boo ya shucka foos from Stewart Scott and Rumbling Bumbling Stumbling Chris Berman, ESPN doesn't do reporting or analysis. They do personalities and a circus act, full of a bunch of clowns.
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