Bears fans are sick and tired of mediocrity. Mr. McCaskey, at some point you need to rip the band-aid off and get rid of Ted Phillips. The 1985 team was built by another regime (your grandfather's) and the Bears find ways to be bottom feeders nearly every year. Sure, we bottle up some magic once and a while but Bears fans are sick and tired. It starts at the top and George McCaskey needs to do the right thing, fire Ted Phillips. Some people may call the McCaskey’s cheap but that isn’t the case. They spend a lot of money swinging and missing. This will happen when the president is more worried about selling merchandise than winning games. You make a big trade or sign someone that will put butts in the seats for a year then rinse and repeat. It’s time to identify the real problem and eliminate it. Bears fans have damn near run out of patience and we’re seeing through a lot of the malarkey. Everyone knew the 5-1 start was fraudulent but we were willing to look past it in hopes for another season of magic, but that possibility is gone and reality is setting in. The Chicago Bears won’t ever be competitive with Ted Phillips making any decisions. Philips wasn’t there to build that '85 team, but he sure was there to watch it fall from glory. Since then, this team has been a Honda Civic trying to go off-roading. It tries, but most of the time it’s stuck in the mud with its wheel spinning out.