I don't think anybody, except for one moron whose only rationale was "its a road game for the 'hawks", thought this would be so lobsided.  I was expecting a loss this week, but I was expecting a battle ending up 20 - 17 or some such jazz.  Instead, Chicago proved they're a good team and I don't know what the heck we proved.

I'd like to place blame on the defense, or on the offensive line, or on Hasselbeck for being stupid a couple of times, or on not having Alexander and Jeremay Stevens to balance out the offense, but I can't because that would cheapen the entirety of the Bears' plan.  They were almost perfect.

Could it have been different in Quest instead of Soldier Field?  Yeah.  But we weren't playing there, so that's a moot arguement.  Could it have been different with all our players healthy?  Yeah, but how much is unknown, so speculating is stupid.  In the end, just count this loss as a blessing in disguise.

That's right.  I look at this as a good thing.  Just about everything bad that could go our way did in one game.  Dropped passes, bad protection, bad defense, stupid penalties, no breaks going our way.  Everything all at the same time.  Odds are good teams wont have much more then a couple of games like this and it's just a good thing to get this out of the way NOW instead of down the road somewhere when it matters more.  The Bears aren't going to go 16-0 either, and they'll have a game like this eventually too.  Just got to take this game as a HUGE life lesson, take the bye week to fix what's wrong, and go get a very different but not sucky St. Louis team two weeks from now.

Congratulations Chicago.  See you in the postseason.

Well.

Yeah.

Good game.  I knew we'd beat the Bears.  It was never a question in my mind.  

Anyway, a word of advice for everyone:  Do not EVER step foot into the Fox Sports Grill.  A friend and I went there to watch the game.  We arrived two hours early because we knew it'd be packed.  What we didn't forsee was the profound amount of assholes and posers we'd have to fend off.  If the Seahawks had won 37 - 6 it still would've been a horrible experience.  In summary, Don't Go To The Fox Sports Grill Unless You're An Asshole Or Poser.  

Thank you and goodnight.

I don't know. It's probably BS homerism. At least we lost to a good team and not as an upset to someone like Green Bay.

Washington would be a good example.  The Redskins were passing roughshod all over us in the early loss we suffered to them last year.  In the playoffs, they couldn't do squat.  Part of that was home field advantage, part of it was the players being more prepared for what we were going to face, and the rest was the plan.

Similarly, the Bears did not prepare well enough for Carolina and were defeated, ending their season.  Holmgren, Marshall, et al found out how to beat the Panthers and exploited their weaknesses thoroughly the next week.

I don't think Lovie Smith is a dumb man, so he's going to do something a little different when / if we see each other again too.  Rather, he has no choice.  Smith has faced Holmgren many times both as a coach and defensive coordinator.  He knows how smart Holmgren is.  But if Holmgren gets creative, nobody can prepare for it.  The Giants found this out last week.  They were unprepared for what we did, and we destroyed them.  The Giants gameplan was based on what they knew of us before and Mike changed up on them.

Preparation in football, in any sport, is the second most important part of the game.  The most important thing is talent, because the coach doesn't play the game.  The Seahawks have the talent, and so do the Bears.  This time it was the Bears' plan that won.  It wont be so easy next time.

I have changed my sig line accordingly, thanks to advice from this handy site, which gives Hawks fans some strategies for dealing with the experience of watching the Seahawks get their butts kicked.

Just for now.  On Oct. 15 I'll change it to a link to a nice recipe for lamb stew.