Mike the Rat

Not going to go into any length with the main topics that have taken over ESPN but just a quick offering on them.

- All you need to know about Mike Shanahan is that if you type on google "Mike Shanahan loo.... one of the first things to pop up is...looks like a rat.
Even with his rat like characteristics I think more is being made of this than what is actually going on.  The facts are that RG3 has been sacked 24 times in their last 5 games.  Everyone is saying how ridiculous of a move this is and how it makes zero sense.  Let's pretend that RG3 plays this week and suffers a season ending injury of any kind; an injury that eats into a good portion of his off-season.  Then its a conversation about why was Shanahan running him out there when there was major protection issues among other things.  It really is a no win situation for him at this point.

-All you need to know about Marc Trestman is that he attempted a 47 yard fg in overtime on SECOND DOWN.  I guess I understand his logic.  I mean after all Robbie Gould was basically automatic from that distance.  Over the last 5 years from 45-49 yards Gould was connecting at an INCREDIBLE rate of 65% (13-20).  Even if he makes the kick I still say its stupid to settle for a 47 yard fg.  For this reason alone I hope the Bears don't make the playoffs....

Wide Right - Might have been good from 3 yards closer.

....but now there is a new reason.  Maybe and actually probably more than likely it is just because I am a Josh McCown fantasy owner, but I am not a big fan of making the switch back to Cutler at this juncture.  Cases can be made for both guys, but at the end of the day pretty much all of the numbers point to McCown.  I know that he is a career back up and at 34 is not the future in Chicago, but I have a feeling the Bear faithful might be thinking what might have been.  Besides you need some fire power on offense when your defense is giving up 157 yards a game on the ground.  To put that in perspective of how bad that is the next worse team is 22 ypg better.