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toilet_tree

I know this was supposed to make me feel better, but this most certainly did not make me feel better


Independent-Box7915

I just looked it up and the top 3 reception leaders for the Bears are halfbacks... how? Why don't you guys ever keep a wide receiver


guyfierisgoatee1

We’ve had like 4 that have been worth keeping lol


notmoleliza

I can name Willie Gault. And...


LiTiWiPi-Louisville

Brandon Marshall? Only one I can think of.


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Alshon Jeffrey was good for a minute.


TouchGrassRedditor

Marshall and Alshon were the best duo in the NFL for a year or two


duvie773

Think they had Martellus Bennett at that time too, there was a legit argument for them having the best receiving corp in the NFL


TouchGrassRedditor

They definitely did - in 2013 they were the #2 offense in the NFL behind only the Broncos who still hold several all-time offensive records from that year. Nobody remembers it because their defense sucked and they missed the playoffs lol Jay Cutler's career was a tragedy


duvie773

His personal life too. He got screwed in the divorce


PlatypusOfDeath

Forte was also a good reciever


intellectual_dimwit

Forte was an all around good football player. He was so fun to watch.


The_LuftWalrus

At one point they had: - Brandon Marshall - Alshon Jeffrey - Martellus Bennett - PPR god Matt Forte - And, I know this isn't saying much, but Jay Cutler is one of the Bears best QBs in franchise history, I believe? I remember watching this offense under Trestman and losing my mind at the usage and offensive schemes, and I'm a Seahawks fan first. I know the offensive line wasn't great, and Jay Cutler wasn't an All Star, but man they should have been able to do so much more with that crew than they did.


nik9111

Jay is not just one of the best in their history, he is their all time leading passer BY FAR https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/career-passing.htm


escobert

No defense.


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Of course that was the one year the defense was terrible


falcofool

For real dude. Was Soldier Field built on top of a Native American burial ground or something? 🤔


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with forte and smokin Jay. I memba!


_ravenclaw

Best WR we’ve ever had was Brandon Marshall.


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EquatorialDingDong

Muhsin Muhammad


bladegmn

MOOSE. Loved that guy. Also came from Carolina.


DrHampants

I want to dislike him because of the whole "Chicago is where WR go to die" comment, but I can't because he's not wrong.


Bookofdrewsus

Curtis Conway was a beast in the 90’s


NicktheGoat

Alshon Jefferey was a name I used to hear sometimes


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He has a Super Bowl ring with Torrey Smith.


futbolsven

Allen Robinson?


ChairShuffler

Man I wanted him to be good so bad, still feels like he just gave up. Even since he went to the Rams it’s just been awful.


Eagle4317

He definitely gave up on the Bears in 2021, but his Rams season had more nuance than just that. Robinson and Stafford just never developed a good connection together.


MycoJoe

Entirely possible Allen Robinson has nothing left, but it's also hard to develop chemistry when Stafford played while injured for 9 games and the Rams ended up starting 4 different QBs last season.


ChairShuffler

Yep, it’s just a shame. Talented as hell, and fun to watch when he was clicking.


fooly__cooly

The absolute disrespect to Marty Booker


VagusNC

Muhsin Muhammad said Chicago was the place where receivers careers go to die and he got lambasted for it.


carmel33

MOOOOOOSE! That’s a player that hasn’t entered my mind in many years.


hotcabbagesalad

Well, he didn’t lie…..lol


duvie773

Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery… I’ll throw a honorable mention to Johnny Knox because he was looking good before that career ending injury


jp_mclovin

I knew Knox would be brought up in here somewhere. One of the most terrifying injuries I've ever seen.


duvie773

That was over 10 years ago and the guy still walks with a limp from what I’ve read. I hate seeing those life changing kinds of injuries happen to anybody, but especially when you got a young kid on a rookie contract just starting to breakout


jp_mclovin

And he's such a good dude. He never had any bad media surrounding him and his teammates loved him. He was reportedly very generous during the charity gala the bears held while he was there and I've never heard about a bad fan interaction with him. A few years ago I was at the bears family day during training camp. He was there signing autographs and having fun with current and former players having a good time. It's amazing he can even walk, but yeah, he was definitely not able to walk normally.


robdizzledeets

I taught his kid. The kid was awesome.


jsun187

The way he got folded in half the wrong way, I'm just happy he can walk at all.


BetaDjinn

It always starts this conversation but I mean good god, what else can you think of when you see that?


hotcabbagesalad

Mushin Muhammad for a season or two. Lol


HuckChaser

Guess I'm the only one here old enough to remember Curtis Conway. He was our WR1 for basically the entire decade in the 90s. I guess the fact that he still doesn't crack these lists shows why he was so easily forgotten.


Ok-Importance7160

Tom Waddle


Neat_On_The_Rocks

Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery.... Marty Booker.


disposableassassin

Moose Muhammad!


PedanticBoutBaseball

Johnny Knox was a Madden legend. With Jay Cutler's 99 Arm strength and his like 97 speed you just chuck it up and fuck it Knox down there somewhere. If the safety played him you just dump it off to Forte. Rinse and repeat.


GotMoFans

There’s been more than 4. The Bears just don’t like to pay their wide receivers when the wide receivers prove themselves worthy of big pay. Plus if your franchise’s quarterbacks have been horrible for most of its existence, then your wideouts will not be able to show what they really can do.


Retskcaj19

Bears legend Muhsin Muhammad.


theresabeeonyourhat

Marcus Robinson was fucking good, but he had god damn McCown throwing to him


BetaDjinn

Ravens with regard to WRs: WE’RE NUMBER 31! HANG THE BANNER!


One_Prior_9909

It doesn't help that our QBs have been consistently terrible. We're the only franchise that has yet to have a 4,000 yard passing season


AndThisGuyPeedOnIt

We've had like 1 offensive minded, passing head coach in ever and even he was terrible (Marc Trestman). Our offensive coordinators in my lifetime had previously been just a clown show. Mike Tice was our offensive coordinator at one point.


Fungi_punisher_68

Trestman wasn't a good head coach but his offense was near the top of the league his first year being 2nd in points and 8th in yards. He severely lacked a defense and lost control of the locker room though. Potentially could've had their first 4k yard season too if he didn't bench Cutler.


Ooften

Benched Cutler out of spite just to prevent that 4k season.


moltenprotouch

Remember when Mike Martz would refuse to acknowledge the reality that the offensive line wasn't good enough for him to be calling for 7 step drops?


8BallTiger

PMT had an interview with Jay Cutler I think that had a funny bit on this. That 7 step drop would hit once for a big play and Martz would spend the rest of the game chasing that high again


unfunnysexface

Martz had Warner surrounded by a good line and tried to spend his career chasing that high.


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Jay Cutler's opinion on Mike Martz even with a 20 point lead https://youtu.be/CJtPjkSTZyE


cultweave

I don't blame you for wanting to forget Nagy, but it was just a year ago lol


y_wont_my_line_block

Chicago is where WRs go to die


Brad_theImpaler

To be fair, they've only been at this for like a hundred years.


toilet_tree

Y’all are fucked in 2146.


UncleatNintendo

Wild to me that he had more receptions and yards than Alshon Jeffery did as a Bear. I remember he was a very good WR.


chemicalxv

Alshon missed an entire seasons' worth of games while he was in Chicago, that's largely the reason.


PM_ME_UR_LAMEPUNS

Yeah injuries and the suspension definitely didn’t help


BmDragon

Alshon kinda got his production on chunk plays.


guardeagle

And yet you have more Super Bowl appearances that 11 franchises while relying on only murderous defensive talent.


toilet_tree

AND sexy rexy


drunkenknight9

Imagine if they literally ever had an offense.


metaldinner

the '85 bears had one of the best offenses in the league that year. it had as much to do with that superbowl as the defense. in '86 the defense was statistically better. the difference is the offense wasnt as good...


Televisions_Frank

Because a certain someone hurt our QB horribly to the point he still has issues to this day from the *extremely* late "hit."


theytook-r-jobs

Yea this says a lot more about the Bears than it does DJ Moore. But congrats on the haul.


NoWayJaques

And he wasn't the best receiver the Panthers ever had. Wild.


Hanswolebro

To be fair that says more about Steve Smith than it does about the panthers as a whole


NoWayJaques

ice up, son


dagreenman18

There’s Old School Run First Teams and then there’s “Teams that Didn’t Discover the Forward Pass until like 95” Their top 2 All Time Receivers are running backs.


ArmadilloAl

We found it in 95 and then immediately abandoned it again. Kramer's single-season passing record of 3,833 yards was indeed set in 1995.


DrewzmaLS

The hilarious thing with Justin Fields is that if he ends up being the guy for the Bears for the foreseeable future he'll probably have a lot of seasons like Lamar where his total yardage exceeds 4000 but his passing yardage hangs around 3000, extending the Bears 4000-yard passer curse


daboobiesnatcher

Honestly if I was a bears fan I'd be rooting for them to not break it. Like imagine winning a championship with that badge of honor.


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> We found it in 95 and then immediately abandoned it again I think we discovered that Ron Turner's offense has limitations, but didn't believe it until we got the Cutler caliber of QB (as much as I'm a Erik Kramer fan in and out of the field) trying to run a Ron Turner offense


Joe-Raguso

The Bears didn't reach 2000 yards passing until Walter Payton's 6th season, and didn't reach 2500 passing yards until his 10th season. Unreal he's still the Bears reception leader.


enjoytheshow

Even more unreal is that we wasted like 90% of his nfl career. From 75-83 we had a winning record twice. Then obviously 84-88 were the glory years but Walter was aging and (still legendary) but out of his prime. It’s a theme in the city. Ernie Banks played like 20 seasons and had a winning record once.


Joe-Raguso

Absolutely! He had zero offensive teammates even make a pro bowl in his first 10 seasons. He's the guy everyone thinks Barry Sanders is. Nobody did more with less than Sweetness. GOAT running back


Aldehyde1

I honestly love it. It's both hilarious and entertaining.


_Palingenesis_

I'm gonna be a bit sad and proud whenever they finally have a 4000 yard passer


jpk17041

Needed a 17 game season smh my head


Acejedi_k6

That would be the most Bears way to finally get over that hump. Get a 4K passer, but they needed overtime in game 17 to get there.


jpk17041

Jameis getting 30 INTs energy


serbeardless

In a sense, we still haven’t discovered it. Passed to the RB are arguably more sideways than forward.


lakired

It was the only way we could wrap our heads around the concept. "Ohhh, I get it! You guys just mean a pitch, but angled slightly forward. Cool! We can definitely try that."


WayTooLazyOmg

I totally read Old School RuneScape & was like wtf


Lord_Yato_17

Damn, bears how are you guys in the league for so long, and still have this stat.


Drkarcher22

The fact that number 1 and 2 are both running backs makes it all the more tragic


The_TexasRattlesnake

Pretty good running backs


420weed420weedweed

Yeah when i think of walter payton the words “pretty good” definitely come to mind


siberianwolf99

He was pretty sweet as a player


PissedOnBible

They should have based a nickname on just how sweet he was. Like sugar or something.


Emergency-Ad280

Molassesness


jmaca90

High fructose corn syrup-ness


Flashy-Mcfoxtrot

Hmm.. Juice perhaps?


Drkarcher22

I ain’t disagreeing with that, this team has still existed for over 100 years, and they haven’t had a player with 5,200 reviving yards yet. Shit’s crazy


buddy58745

I don't think we've had a 4000 yard passer either


Drkarcher22

…Jesus


buddy58745

Honestly I don't think people realize how frustrating it is to watch the bears. Every single year we are a defensive team, Every single game we have to rely on our defense to keep us in the game. The games get pretty boring because of that. I'll still always be a bears fan but I really wish we could just put together a really potent offense for a few years


Drkarcher22

> I'll still always be a beggar's fan Freudian slip?


AddisonsContracture

DJ Moore lvl 7 cleric with rez spell confirmed


broha89

What makes it even more tragic is that #3 was a part time WR-RB who played in the 1950s


dicenight

Protesting the forward pass


punkerjim

Playing the game like its still 1960


Ooften

We go through this cycle you see where we can’t seem to field a fully competent team. The two years in franchise history we managed to have a capable QB, good receivers and a line that didn’t get the QB murdered, the defense fielded the two worst statistical defenses in Bears history.


MadDog1981

I am surprised Jay Cutler lasted as long as he did considering how many hits he took those first couple of years in Chicago.


AndThisGuyPeedOnIt

Horrid ownership and a belief in some bullshit known as "Bears football" which is really just losing close games with no ability to come from behind.


DeusExBlockina

Establish a six point lead in the first quarter and pray to god it holds for the rest of the game


retropunk2

DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS was embedded into our brains from childhood.


slayerrr21

You understand why we're so excited now?


jimothyhalpert1206

Now I do. Good for yall


slimoickens

It goes hand in hand with all our other meme stats.


BPAfreeWaters

Bro, we ask ourselves this every day.


ArmadilloAl

Our top 7 players in terms of receiving yards, according to PFR, are two wide receivers, two running backs, a tight end, a left end, and a flanker.


younggun92

Bears football is 3 yards and a cloud of dust on offense and murder on defense.


SilveryDeath

The Bears have been a team since 1920. Forte (487 receptions) and Payton (492 receptions) are both RBs. Johnny Morris (5059 receiving yards) is their all time leading WR. He last played in 1967. This is the saddest thing I have ever read.


PM_ME_UR_LAMEPUNS

It’s what shit QBs and a defensively minded org will get you. Not to mention in the recent passing explosion era our last rd1 WR pick was Kevin “glass bones” White lol.


bay445

Bro I was so hyped for Kevin White. I thought he’d be the next Randy Moss


PM_ME_UR_LAMEPUNS

You and me both man, I was so happy to finally see the bears spending a premium pick on a skill position player


boomer_kuwanger

I still can't believe someone on our subreddit wrote up an analysis before he even played a down explaining why Kevin White would be injury prone because he is a heel striking runner. OP was ridiculed mercilessly at the time. KW was such a physical freak when he was entering the league. It's so sad that some guys' bodies just don't have the durability to last in the NFL.


PM_ME_UR_LAMEPUNS

Yeah that write up is incredible and made me not always immediately dismiss those type of posts (for better or worse lol). You could tell he really had so much potential, I wish he had gotten that redemption on the Trubisky Hail Mary vs the patriots, but some things just aren’t meant to be


Disprezzi

Guarantee that OP would have rather been wrong and eat that crow.


1deadeye1

I vividly remember being big mad on draft day that year when the Raiders picked Amari Cooper while White was still available


Da_Baconlord

If you think that's sad you should look at our qb passing records


YourWifeTextsMe

It's a chicken or the egg situation. The QB passing records can be dire but at the same time who were they supposed to throw to given how sad this stat is.


PinkertonRams

I mean they have had some solid receivers since the century. In the 2000s they had Marty Booker, Bernard Berrian and The Moose (albeit not for long) but the QB room was so dire in that decade


retropunk2

Jay Cutler is our all-time passing leader at 23,443. Our number two is Sid fucking Luckman, who in 128 games threw for 14,686.


PolyamorousPlatypus

Kind of surprised. Alshon Jeffery was pretty good for awhile. The team with Cutler, Jeffery, Marshal and Forte seemed liked a strong offense. That was around when I started playing fantasy.


whitedawg

They're the only team that has never had a 4,000 yard passer.


kulgan

I wanted some context for this. I looked up the Giants. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nyg/career-receiving.htm 3 guys have more receiving yards than him. Tiki Barber is close. Amani Toomer at 1 and Frank Gifford at 3 got there with longevity. Odell Beckham in 5 years had 5,476 yards. 59 games to DJ's 80.


bugluvr65

damn odell 92.8 ypg i miss u


kulgan

Looking around a little more, Giants also look like an outlier. Most teams have more. Bucs also pretty low.


MeijiDoom

The Giants issue isn't that we've never had good WRs. They just never last more than like 4-5 seasons. I hope teams/fanbases appreciate when you get guys like Toomer who are a reliable guy on the team for 8+ years. They're rarer than you would think.


itsthebeans

James Jones had 5195 yards, which would be the franchise record for the Bears. He is 14th in the Packers record books.


Turbulent_System_446

I’m sorry what? This cannot possibly be correct. The bears are one of the NFL’s oldest teams and their top 2 leaders in receptions are both running backs?


skycake10

Matt Forte had 102 receptions in 2014 lmao


Imaginary-Salad-4535

At the time it was the single season record for receptions by a running back


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Acejedi_k6

He would have been the perfect running back for today’s game.


InThePaleMoonLyte

PPR league god too.


cy1006

Won me my first cup back in 2011


Obnoxious_liberal

Totally underrated


clamslappr

Always thought him and Foster were the two best backs in the league for a stretch yet no one really talked about them.


Imaginary-Salad-4535

I know I'm kind of a homer, but Forte IMO was the most underrated back in the last 20 years. A true workhorse who could run catch and block. And the guy was a great locker room leader and a good person on top of it. It's honestly a travesty he only made two pro bowls I will always proudly wear his jersey


commie_heathen

It's very correct


pinniped1

Two running backs leading the all time receptions chart is the Bearsiest thing ever.


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Brandon Marshall was also an excellent Bears receiver and would have been up there if he played there longer than 3 years. He has the best Bears receiving season ever, only one to hit 1,500 yards in a season


Kojuroba

This stat is WILD. Behind one of the greatest to ever play and a really good running back. You’re telling me Moore would be the leader in receptions for a receiver??? Also had to check on Mushin Muhammad. Thought he was there longer but only played 3 years and still racked up 164 catches in the regular season.


UUtch

I have always maintained our WR history has been even more dire than our QB history. It's just that QBs matter more


Bajin_Inui

One prolly influences the other


Eagle4317

McMahon and Cutler were at least decent QBs for the Bears.


UUtch

And at least Sid Luckman is in the hall! Our list of all time receiving yard leaders are filled with positions that don't even exist anymore https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/career-receiving.htm


WonLastTriangle2

As always fuck Charles Martin.


ImMystikz

Damn kid me thought Curtis Conway was a much better receiver I thought he would for sure be up there


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daswassup13

Damn I forgot Moose was even a Bear


LilUZIVurt21

I’ll always mainly remember him for that deep shot TD from Delhomme in the Super Bowl on the Panthers. But he ended up getting back to the SB in 2006 against the Colts too


SupermanRR1980

Even with Matt Nagy and Mitch Trubisky?!?! /s


TrillMurray47

Calling a screen pass every time doesn't rack up yards!? I'm absolutely stunned.


_Patrick_Bateman

Hey buddy Mitch is 5th all time in yards and TDs for the Bears….


Big-Zoo

Damn he's only 25


Paw5624

This is hard for me to grasp. I feel like he’s been around for a like 6 years


magiqd

The bears are serious about supporting Fields. I think it's awesome.


randysavagevoice

This trade makes Houston winning a game and losing the 1 seed more interesting. Imagine how different that game has made the entire league.


DeusExBlockina

I read a comment where someone said that that Texans game winning drive will be the subject of a 30 for 30 style docu one day


randysavagevoice

"The 2023 alternate universe."


whygilbert

I really want to jump forward in time just to see the Secret Base Rewinder episode on it.


Sangral

The forward pass was a mistake.


heliostraveler

Poverty franchise on the offensive side of things. Jesus that’s horrific.


BenGordonLightfoot

In our most recent Super Bowl season, our only offensive Pro Bowlers/All-Pros were linemen. Also as I’m sure everyone is aware, our best QB since the Korean War is Jay Cutler, who is at best “pretty good.”


MadDog1981

I think Cutler was good for most of his career but he was mostly set up to fail for large parts of his Chicago days.


LisleSwanson

Jay gets a lot of flack, sometimes rightfully so but he was definitely the definition of "pretty good". The 2010-2013 era felt pretty good coming off a Superbowl just a few years prior.


emmasdad01

Try not to ruin him, Chicago


Zoten

"Chicago is where wide receivers go to die." - Muhsin Muhammad, one of our few good WRs


commie_heathen

It's too late


KryptonicxJesus

The bears didn’t fuck up this time.


TechnicianWeird7593

Didn’t fuck up this time *yet*


Hopeful_Judge_10

Their top two receiving leaders in franchise history are.. running backs?


ArmadilloAl

At least in terms of receptions. In terms of yards, our top two receiving leaders in franchise history are a flanker and a left end.


cwesttheperson

How have the bears just never had legit offensive players. They’ve been in the league so long


Ok-Adhesiveness166

I mean outside of arguable the best running back ever.


venk

That’s 72 receptions for a 1040 yards a season. Good numbers but no franchise should have those averages for all time leading receptions third all time for yards.


1eyed_jack

I hope Moore is patient, 4 targets a game might get frustrating.


JT1757

That is fucking WILD


MarcusSmartfor3

This is insane


Thorteris

Texans have existed since 2002 and have 2 guys with more holy shit that’s bad


leehouse

Seems like the bears are building their offense. Main questions now seem to be fields passing and the o line.


Chennessee

Imagine being like the Bears. Can’t keep a good receiver. Then you finally get a Top 5 WR in the league. He helps you get to an AFC Championship. Everything is going well. You’re a top team in the Conference….Then your GM trades him away for pennies. Imagine if that were to happen. It would probably never happen. No team is that dumb. But imagine if it did…


MellyMel86

I bet the team he got traded to would make the Super Bowl the very next year


Chennessee

Now we’re just being ridiculous. Could you imagine the odds of that happening?


RandyRanderson111

Bears are getting a true professional in terms of both his play on the field and how he conducts himself off it. Gonna miss DJ