Donovan McNabb is tired of hearing people talk about his mechanics. Leslie Frazier is almost certainly tired of people clamoring for Christian Ponder. McNabb hasn't lost any games single-handedly, but he sure hasn't won any either. Frazier isn't crazy for sticking with his veteran, but he doesn't look any smarter every time a McNabb pass buries itself in the turf. Gentlemen: Sunday is your chance to make believers out of us -- to get us on the bandwagon, even if it might be temporary.

The Bears are starting two entirely new safeties -- a rookie and a second-year guy -- after benching a couple of more established, underperforming players. You might say a youth movement could be just what the Bears needed. We'll say this: the veterans were probably starting for a reason. At some point, they beat out the guys who are now playing.

So McNabb gets to face two guys who couldn't win jobs from two guys the Bears now deem terrible. He also has Adrian Peterson in the backfield. If Jahvid Best ran wild against Chicago last week, you figure the threat of Peterson has to make the Bears very uncomfortable, at the least. So you have the best running back in the league, and you're facing two raw replacement safeties (not to mention a pair of defensive ends who might remove Jay Cutler's spleen if a leaky offensive line continues to falter, which could mean good opportunities in short fields).

There needs to be a game plan that exploits this from a passing standpoint, and there needs to be a quarterback making the throws to exploit it. If that happens, we'll start to believe in McNabb and Frazier's belief in McNabb. The Vikings should win this game. If not, there will be far more questions than answers on Monday.