Chicago Bears Missing Their Terrell Owens

The Bears have yet to take the field this preseason, but it is already easy to predict how they will finish the year. This is not over-hyping the addition of Jay Cutler. That has been done enough. This is not overestimating the impact of the change in coaching on the defensive end. There is a simple reason that the Bears are going to be so easy to predict this season. They are the Philadelphia Eagles in the years prior to Terrell Owens. Those Eagle teams always seemed destined for greatness. They were stacked at almost every position. They had a star quarterback in his prime, and they would win consistently until they were on the verge of the Super Bowl, when they would fail in spectacular fashion. The reason that Terrell Owens is so important to this comparison is that T.O., despite his flaws, was the tipping point for the Eagles. Owens gave them the star receiver, something that Philadelphia was lacking, and put them into the big game. The Bears of 2009 don’t have a Terrell...