Good news for any fantasy football owners who own Joe Flacco: the Bears’ defense was your best offense in your playoff run.

Bad news for anyone stupid enough to start Jay Cutler: Good luck next season.

That was what a weird, wild and disappointing week it was for the Bears. Stranded on the O’Hare tarmac for Friday night’s flight to snowy Baltimore, the Bears left their game plan and execution on the luggage carousel on  the way to a 31-7 loss to the Ravens on Sunday.

Delayed flights, blizzards, team dissension and comments about your head coach’s future. Yes, that would grade out to an “F” week for any team.

Even Bears fans piled on this week, rewriting the “Bear Down Chicago Bears” fight song to be “Lie Down, Chicago Bears.” On Sunday, the Bears did just that.

Blame abounds on the Bears, and it’s not the fault of a snowstorm that dumped more than 20 inches of snow in the Northeast over the weekend and delayed the Bears’ arrival in Baltimore to 11 p.m. Saturday.

The loss left the Bears 5-9 and guaranteed them a losing season, as speculation out of Chicago has raised questions about Coach Lovie Smith’s future. FOX announcers read quotes from GM Jerry Angelo leaving the door open to discuss Smith’s future after the season.

This comes on the heels of Bears players Brian Urlacher, Devin Hester and Lance Briggs speaking out this week on reasons for the downhill slide.

Urlacher, out with a broken wrist, has said on multiple occasions that he doesn’t like the team's personality.

Hester, out the past two games with a calf injury, said the offense is expecting changes next year, then backpedaled with his comments on his Twitter account. It may have been Hester’s best move all season.

And Briggs, who led the Bears with 13 solo tackles, questioned the front office’s personnel moves, particularly on defense.

To prove we’re civil, we’ll smooth out the rough grades with this sole Bears highlight from the NFL Network:

OFFENSE

By midway through the third quarter, four Bears turnovers  -- two Jay Cutler picks, a Matt Forte fumble and a special teams fumble -- had led to 24 Baltimore points. The Bears failed to score on a first-and-goal from the Baltimore 3 in the first half. (See more on that series in the coaching section).

The offensive line played poorly, Greg Olsen caught only one ball (four in his past three games) and the receivers played their worst game of the season. But this loss sits squarely on Cutler’s shoulders. His two first-quarter picks (Nos. 23 and 24 for the season, a league-high) took the Bears out of the game, period. Grade: F

DEFENSE

Memo to Smith: Todd Heap is a Pro Bowl-caliber tight end. You cannot single cover him with Corey Graham or Lance Briggs. Heap’s two first-half touchdown catches resulted in a 14-7 halftime lead. Our Bears-Ravens preview figured the Ravens would run right at the Bears, as they did with 308 yards last week against Detroit. While Ray Rice & Co. looked good on the ground, it was Flacco’s ability to pick apart the Bears’ Cover-2 with Heap and Derrick Mason that proved to be the difference in the game. Grade: D

SPECIAL TEAMS

Good special teams: Earl Bennett’s 49-yard punt return for a touchdown kept the Bears in it at halftime. Bad special teams: Johnny Knox’s botched kickoff return in the third quarter suddenly put the Bears down 28-7. Game over.  Grade: C

COACHING

This team has quit on its coaching staff, period. Smith didn’t have the defense ready to handle Flacco and his receivers. His grade is based on that more so than the offense’s turnovers putting the defense in a hole. Ron Turner’s play-calling was particularly awful on a goal-line series in which the Bears threw twice from the Ravens’ 1-yard-line and turned it over on downs. Simply awful. Grade for Smith: F; Grade for Turner: F

-- MIKE REILLEY
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