Chicago Bears: These quarterbacks have made us who we are

Neckbeard The Pirate. At this point, Lovie Smith’s defense was fully realized and really only needed an offense that didn’t pass out collectively more than once per game. Kyle Orton was able to turn around and hand the ball off to Thomas Jones enough, and hit a tight end in the flat, to get the Bears to a division title.

Still, the lack of imagination on offense with a rookie quarterback the Bears were terrified to barely let in the building, led fans to clamor for a returning Grossman at the end of the season.

No, seriously, this happened.

Anyway, the Orton-Grossman Axis of Death push-and-pull would last three years. It was so exhausting the Bears pulled the ultimate rip chord when they traded for Jay Cutler

Honorable mention to Brian Griese here, who popped up for the post-Super Bowl season and relegated Orton to third-string which did not sit well with a large portion of the fanbase who had come to adore a quarterback who had to look downfield four times a game.

Griese was basically the same dude the Bears had tried for 30 years. But he didn’t throw the ball into triple coverage 40 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, which was enough for a lot of people. There was a comeback win over the Packers in Green Bay, which for 40 percent of Bears fans is reason enough to die. Anyway, Orton would start the next season, and that went so well the Bears did this…