Bears Beat Vikings: McCaskeys Make Millions

The pass that besieged Chicago Bear quarterback Jay Cutler fired to the long hidden Devin Aromashodu down the cold sideline on Monday Night football not only beat the suddenly stumbling Minnesota Vikings but likely saved Lovie Smith's job.

And saved the McCaskey family from paying another head coach millions while also paying the fired Smith the eleven million and change remaining on his contract.

Lovie has made a terrible mess of the Bears but he pulled out the one big game to insure he will be back to haunt the sidelines next year.

That pass made the McCaskey's smile wider then Jay Cutler after throwing yet another bone headed interception on third and long.

Instead of firing Lovie Smith the Bears will sacrifice some of his incompetent underlings.

Ron Turner, the inept offensive coordinator, will be canned. Pep Hamilton, perhaps the poorest quarterback guru in league history, will be fired or reassigned.

Lovie Smith might even fire himself as defensive coordinator, mumble something about trying to do too much, and give the job to Rod Marinelli.

Even Jerry Angelo, the bumbling general manager, will likely stay in the wake of beating the I Am Legend Media God Brett Favre.

The Bear defense showed up for a bit last night, something it has not done much of since Lovie Smith fired Ron Rivera after the Bear's Super Bowl loss, and Jay Cutler flashed all pro ability briefly much like Jeff George used to do occasionally. 

Bear DT Tommie Harris, making all those millions, even tried to put forth a professional effort for once.

Still it took Adrian Peterson putting the ball on the ground instead of putting the game away to give the game to the Bears. Peterson, a great player, has a great chink in his purple armor caused by his propensity to put the ball on the ground.

Turnovers will kill the Purple Boys come playoff time.

But the Bears won last night and Lovie walks on.

The McCaskey's will bank the millions of bucks they were going to be forced to pay the failed, fired Lovie Smith's replacement.

Lovie will finish his deal and the Bears will never fail to fail on the field.

The draft picks are dwindling and the Bears talent base is bare. Many of the high priced disgruntled veterans are likely heading out of the Windy City.

Its bye bye for Olin Kreutz, Brian Urlacher, Tommie Harris, Adewale Ogunleye, Orlando Pace, and Nathan Vasher.

By the time the Bears have high draft picks the rookies will have a salary cap ceiling, and the team will not have a salary cap floor, so from a dollars and cents having no high picks for a few years is a brilliant money making move.

Some of those guys ought to go but the Bears Super Bowl window is slamming shut. Slamming shut with a whimper because these Bears never even made a post Super Bowl playoff appearance.

But the Bears will still have Lovie Smith, his bad defense, a worse offensive line and a big name quarterback who plays good every fifth game and terrible every other game.

And the McCaskey's, of course, will have many more millions.

With no new big name coach and staff to pay, no fired coach's contract to honor, a few high priced veterans to slash, and no new high draft picks to budget for a few years things are looking up for the Bear's owners bank accounts.

Shame it can't be said about the team itself.

But enjoy the Viking win, the McCaskeys sure did.