I do not know about all of you, but the reporters at ESPN come across to me as extremely ignorant, unprepared, and have the tendency to speak before they think or know the facts.

From year to year, I constantly hear them change their tunes and totally contradict themselves in order for them to cover their butts and sound good in their own minds.

I am sure that some you, mostly fans of east coast teams such as the Patriots, Giants, Jets, and Eagles love ESPN. That is because they never say anything bad about those teams. ESPN is so partial to east coast teams; they would not be caught dead saying anything negative about them.

However, the one team they seem to despise more then any other seems to be the Chicago Bears. For some reason, it seems as if they live just to bash the Bears. This is not a recent trend either. It goes back for years.

For example, one particular reporter, who is an ex-NFL player, and whose name I will not mention in order to avoid a defamation of character suit, contradicts himself left and right when it comes to the Bears.

During the Bears Super Bowl year of 2006, this particular analyst picked the Bears to lose every week up until week 7 of the season. The Bears were 6-0 at that point. In addition, after every Bears win, he reported mostly that the other teams had a bad week, that their defense was not up to par that week or their offense did not execute up their normal potential. Nothing was said about the Bears excellent defense effort, or the offense putting up 35 points. It was not the Bears who won the game, but their opponents who lost the game.

That same year, in the playoffs, every single one of ESPN’s analysts picked Seattle to win against the Bears. The Bears won in overtime with a Robbie Gould field goal. There was no mention of how the Bears pulled it out, just how the Seahawks blew the game.

The next week, again, they all picked the Bears to lose against the Saints. In addition, both of these games were Bears home games at Soldiers Field. The Bears proved them all wrong once again, and beat the Saints handily. Did ESPN talk about how well the Bears played in the game? Heck no, they talked about how Drew Brees was not himself and that if the game was in New Orleans, the Saints would have easily won the game.

When the Bears lost the Super Bowl to ESPN’s second favorite quarterback, Tom Brady being the first, Payton Manning, they were all like kids in a candy store, all ranting and raving about how they were right all along, and that the Bears did not deserve to be there.

 In 2007, after a disappointing and dismal 7-9 season for the Bears, they all said the Bears had no quarterback. They bashed Rex Grossman, they bashed Kyle Orton and you could tell, they took great pleasure in doing do.

They all said that the Bears had to pick a quarterback in the draft, in the first round, second round at the latest. After the draft was over and the Bears did not take a quarterback in any round, the Bears were imbeciles, stupid and have no idea how to build a football team. Matt Forte in the second round was a wasted pick, he came from a small school and even though he had excellent college statistics, they said he would probably not transcend well into the NFL. Wrong again ESPN!

They talked about how Kyle Orton was nothing more then a game manager quarterback and that he would never amount to a quality starter in this league, just a back up quarterback at best. The Bears needed a quarterback and they did not draft one. It was a big mistake, and it had to be, ESPN said so.

Let us move forward to this year. The Bears pull off the shocker of the year and acquire Jay Cutler from the Denver Broncos. A franchise quarterback! Here are the Bears, who nobody at ESPN said had any chance at all in the Cutler Derby. But low and behold, the Bears pull it off and Culter is a Bear! Was it a great move by the Bears? Not according to ESPN.

Now all of a sudden, Kyle Orton, who went to the Broncos in the trade, and who ESPN said just a year ago would never amount to anything more then a backup in the NFL, is being built up by ESPN as if he were a pro bowl quarterback. Moreover, the actual pro bowl quarterback in Jay Cutler, is being shot down by ESPN as nothing more then mediocre. Unbelievable!

Of course if Cutler had gone to the Jets or the Redskins instead of the Bears, it would have been the pick up of the century and all but guaranteed that team would be in the Super Bowl this season according to ESPN. But no, it was the Bears, so it was bad trade for them and Cutler.

Going back to this ex NFL’er analyst whose name I will not mention, says Cutler will not succeed in Chicago because Brandon Lloyd and Rashied Davis are not quality starting receivers. I agree with that statement. The only problem is that Lloyd is no longer on the Bears, and Davis never was a starter and never will be. Way to do your homework nimrod! Just another way for this particular ESPN reporter to make himself sound intelligent. However, to Bears fans that know the real story, he just sounded stupid and ignorant.

Even on the ESPN website today, they have a poll asking the question “What has been the best move of the NFL offseason so far?”

Would you believe that the Cutler trade to the Bears is not even one of the answers? The Blockbuster trade of the decade in the NFL with the Bears getting a franchise quarterback and it is not even mentioned. The first franchise quarterback on the Bears since Sid Luckman over 70 years ago. Once again, I would bet a years salary that if an east coast team picked him up instead of the Bears, not only would it be listed on the poll, it would be listed first.

By the way, here are the answers that were listed in that particular poll. And to no surprise, three out the five answers concern an east coast team.

a) Giants release Plaxico Burress

b) Chiefs trade for Matt Cassell

c) Kurt Warner re-signs with Cardinals

d) Buccaneers dismiss Jon Gruden and Bruce Allen

e) Ray Lewis stays with Ravens

Yet on another ESPN website poll, the question is asked, “What has been the worst move of the NFL offseason so far?”

Guess what the top answer listed is. Yep, you guessed it! “Broncos trade Jay Cutler to Bears!”  So according to ESPN, it is bad for the Broncos AND bad for the Bears.

ESPN, you have got to be kidding me!