Put yourself in Marc's shoes...

What do you do if you're Marc Trestman, coach of the Chicago Bears, and your team has just given up six touchdown passes in the first half to, admittedly, the best quarterback of his five-year generation? 

Picture yourself in the visiting locker room at Lambeau Field last night. Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers have decimated your team in the first half: seven drives, six touchdowns (the seventh would've been a TD if the ball hadn't been fumbled into the end zone. That's right - it could have been worse.). 

You thought you'd prepared well. Trestman said as much after the game. They'd had a terrific bye week (that's right: they had two weeks to prepare to be this bad!), a great practice and walk-through Saturday, and they thought they were going to do great things on the field last night.

Instead, they became only the second team in NFL history to give up fifty points in back-to-back games.

(The other? The 1923 Rochester Jeffersons. But of course you knew that...)

The defense takes the blame for most of that - the defense of the team known for decades as the "Monsters Of The Midway", the home of Dick Butkus and Mike Singeltary. George Halas turned over in his grave so much last night, we should've hooked an electromagnet to him and at least powered the stadium scoreboard.

But the offense was just as bad. They scored zero in the first half. The two TDs they had in the second were almost tokens handed to them by the generous defense. 

If you're Coach Trestman, what do you do? 

There are still good pieces there: Matt Forte (who still isn't getting used enough), Brandon Marshall. Jay Cutler may be may be erratic, but at times he's very good. The defense is nowhere NEAR as bad as they've let on the last two games, but - holy catfish, did you see the mistakes they made in coverage last night?

What do you do? It seems unlikely that the Bears, at 3-6, will go the way of those legendary Rochester Jeffersons, who were in the middle of a four-season winless streak when they gave up those two half-centuries ninety years ago. They folded after that 1925 season. 

The Bears won't fold anytime soon, but they've got to stop playing like they have.