A veteran of the Chicago beat reporting scene, David Schuster regularly writes about the sights and sounds of Chicago sports from the press box and locker room for MOUTHPIECE Blog.

Thank heavens for Mike Brown. If not for Brown, we would have come out of the Bears locker room Sunday with the usual dribble and nonsense.

The Bears played their worst game of the season in getting humiliated up in Green Bay. Afterwards, we were subjected to Lovie Smith’s weekly humdrum. The man’s temperature never changes. No anger, no outward emotion and certainly no raised voice. Not even a mention that the performance was unacceptable. Is it any wonder that the fans are tired of this monotone style?

A few players bemoaned their play but most said that it was only one game and time to move on. What? One game? Hardly. This was another in a season long line of poor defensive efforts. That’s where Brown comes in. Immediately, without prompting, the Bears captain stated that the defense is no longer what it was from the recent past. In fact, he called it one of the worst in the league and deserving of all the criticism it has been getting. He went on to say that the team embarrassed itself and “got destroyed and that’s the bottom line.”

Well here’s the bottom line from a reporter’s standpoint. We appreciate athletes who will bare their thoughts and feelings as opposed to the ones that will hide from the media. Kudos to Mike Brown who takes his captain’s responsibilities seriously.