Stop me if you've heard something like these statements before: What we are seeing from the Bears isn't the whole picture. The offense is holding back. What we are seeing is so vanilla, we'll see more come Week 1. Blah, blah, blah.

It's clear the Bears aren't showing everything in their toolbox, but I doubt it's for the same reasons that those at Halas Hall would have us believe. Yesterday Mike Martz and Jay Cutler addressed the teams struggles thus far.

"You guys haven't seen a lot," Cutler said. "You guys don't get to see the film, and see what we see, and you guys don't know exactly what we're trying to accomplish out there. The guys have been working extremely hard and doing things really well -- well, maybe a little bit off and on -- but more on than off at this point."

More on than off? This is on? I would hate to see this group when they are completely off then. Cutler has been sacked 10 times already this pre-season (more than Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, Sage Rosenfels and Matt Flynn combined), has thrown just one touchdown, and has a passer rating lower than Claeb Hanie, Rex Grossman, Rhett Bomar and Dan Orlovsky.

The receivers haven't been much better. Lining up seems to be less of an issue as it was in 2009, but still you can see fingers pointing guys towards spots regularly, a sign that this group still doesn't have this offense down. Do you believe in Johnny Knox as a number one type of guy? He has been Cutler's go-to-guy to this point.

"That's where we are. In practice things go well and then the pressure of games does funny things to young players," Martz said. "They just have to experience that. That's why we put them in those challenges, so they can play through that and that's what's happening right now.

"The progress is good, I'm happy with where they are and obviously we're not where we want to be but we'll be there by the time we open up."

I'm trying to believe. I want to believe that all of this isn't just posturing. I'm trying to believe that somehow Martz hasn't been fed the Halas Hall Kool-Aid. You know, the one where all is right in the world. The one where "Rex is our quarterback" despite everyone knowing he shouldn't be, where the Bears "get off the bus running" despite the fact that the it has quite obviously turned into a passing dominated league, the one where since 2002 it has been completely okay to not address the offensive line through the draft.

"The progress that we've had through the off season so far has been remarkable," Martz said. "We've got a whole lot out there for them to learn right now...I'm excited."

That last quote seems like it would fit the theme of running statements from Martz since camp began for the Bears. Unfortunately, that is a quote from his pre-season time with the 49ers.