On an average Autumn Sunday, the current Chicago Bears are among the most powerful squads in the National Football League. So, this past Sunday, when the 49ers went on over to Soldier Field to face Da Bears, our team was torn apart on defense and on offense.

Why? Third down problems on both offense and defense.

And why did the situation not improve? Because the 49ers made no perceptible coaching adjustments.

As any reader of the brilliant webcomic Pokey The Penguin knows, to do something Chicago-style means to do it without your pants on. And indeed, so thorough was this beatdown, that it could be said that the Niners took this horrible beatdown Chicago-style.

It was an agony to watch the same issues crop up again and again as the Bears processed SF and did what they cared to. When a tactic or scheme results poorly, it is in the team's best interest to try something else! And this, the Niners failed to do.

By SFist Christopher Rogers for "American Football Spectacular," contributing