Bears 24, Eagles 20: Why Must You Mess With Our Hearts Like That?

Seriously, Bears? This is how it’s going to be?

You can’t hold a 10-point lead in the last five minutes against mediocre Tampa Bay, but you can go out and beat Philadelphia wire-to-wire?

This could have been a magnificent win that gave the Bears control of their division. Instead, it was a nice win in which an inconsistent team went against predictions for the fourth straight week, which sounds like the kind of thing that happens in a season that ends at 7-9.

Sure, the defense had a nice goal line stand. If they had played 60 minutes every week, they wouldn’t have needed it. And sure, Kyle Orton had three touchdown passes. He also pissed away a nice interception return from Kevin Payne, giving Orton an 11-yard field to work with, by throwing a pick of his own.

Who knows, maybe the Bears can only win on Sunday night. Or maybe they’ll go undefeated outside of the NFC South en route to a 12-4 record. Either of those theories make as much sense as anything else coming out of this team.

Lovie’s boys have two winnable games coming up, then get the Vikings at home before the bye week. They SHOULD come out of that stretch 5-2 and a force to be reckoned with. Giving their chaotic personality, they probably WILL come out of it 3-4 with an extremely irritated fan base.