The Chicago Bears have gotten so bad that Mike Ditka can’t even watch anymore.
On Tuesday, Ditka told the Chicago Sun-Times that he is unable to give a full assessment of what went wrong during Monday night’s blowout loss to the New Orleans Saints because he shut the game off.
“I’ll tell you what, I watched until it was 14-0, then I turned the game off,” Ditka said. “I didn’t watch any more. So, I don’t know what happened. I don’t know how bad it got or didn’t get. I didn’t pay any attention to it.
“But from what I saw, the guys on defense didn’t know where to line up. They didn’t know how to cover. They didn’t know how to do anything. It’s a shame. There is no excuse for that.”
Ditka, who coached one of the best defenses of all time in 1985 and went on to win the Super Bowl, has blasted this year’s Chicago defense on multiple occasions. As someone who watched all of Monday’s game, I can tell Da Coach that the Bears not only lack skill on defense but they also look like they have completely given up on the season.
Ditka also defended head coach Marc Trestman, who is reportedly on the chopping block.
“And if you think this isn’t a good football team because of the coach, you’re wrong,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the coaching. Look, they have made some bad picks, made some really bad choices and tied up their money in the wrong people. I’m not going to get into the particulars of it, but that’s just what it is.”
To me, Trestman seems like more of an offensive coordinator than a head coach. He’s not a great leader, but Ditka would tell you there is no one on the Bears roster worthy of being a captain. He’s right about that.
