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Bears snap count: Bears’ offensive issues can’t be fixed in final three games originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Bears head coach Matt Eberflus took the podium Monday at Halas Hall and read out a list of team accomplishments over the past five weeks. All of them were related to the defense.
The Bears’ offense has been, outside of two games against a shaky Lions defense, bordering on bad for over a month.
In two games against the Lions, the Bears are averaging 27 points and 335 yards per game. In three games against the Minnesota Vikings, Carolina Panthers, and Cleveland Browns, the Bears are averaging 12.6 offensive points and 282.2 yards per game.
In Sunday’s 20-17 loss to the Cleveland Browns, the Bears went 4-for-19 on third down and went three-and-out on nine of 15 possessions.
After the loss in Cleveland, Darnell Mooney and DJ Moore both pointed to complacency taking over in the third quarter as the Bears’ defense was suffocating the Browns. Quarterback Justin Fields and tight end Cole Kmet both said that wasn’t the case, but the Bears just failed to execute and move the sticks to flip the field in a defensive game.
Head coach Matt Eberflus believes the key to getting the Bears’ offense back on track lies in stretching the field.
“It’s imperative that we keep taking the shots down the field that we took yesterday,” Eberflus said Monday at Halas Hall. “We took one to [Robert Tonyan]. That was a big connect. It’s important that we do that. It’s a big part of it. We got DJ on the side. I think that was another big play. It’s important we keep taking the shots down the field because when you do that, you back people off and it opens up the intermediate part of it. You get people to play more shell that way, and we feel that can get people to open up the run game for us too.”
According to Pro Football Focus, Fields threw eight passes 20 or more yards downfield. He went 1-for-8 for 27 yards and two inceptions on Hail Mary attempts…
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Publish date : 2023-12-18 21:02:40
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