When and The place: Week 13 at residence
Final season: Oh boy. Drafted a QB that didn’t need to be there partly due to the offensive coordinator they’d employed. In September their defensive coordinator resigned out of the blue. In November they fired the OC that their QB didn’t need to work with. After which later in November they fired their head coach, the primary time in over 100 years of franchise historical past that the Bears fired a head coach through the season. As 5 win seasons go, that’s fairly thrilling stuff for the neutrals.
Added: Joe Thuney, Dayo Odeyingo, Olamide Zaccheaus, Durham Smythe, Jonah Jackson
Misplaced: Coleman Shelton, Matt Pryor, Keenan Allen, DeMarcus Walker
Gamers added or misplaced so as of snaps performed final season.
High draft picks: Colston Loveland, Luther Burden
Greatest query going through this crew: Can Ben Johnson flip the Bears round? Can anybody?
Typically a franchise caught in a rut hires a coach and every part modifications. The Eagles noticed this occur with Andy Reid, or extra just lately the Lions with Dan Campbell. The Bears’ scenario is properly past being caught in a rut. The Bears have an organizational rot that must be exorcized. Maybe the Chicago Pope, who was on the White Sox successful the World Collection, can carry out a second miracle and get the Bears a Tremendous Bowl and attain sainthood.
Can Ben Johnson be the man to show it round? The Bears have a fairly good base of expertise for to begin with contemplating how dreadful this franchise is with Caleb Williams, Rome Odunze, Luther Burden, and Colston Loveland, together with DJ Moore.
By the point this recreation is performed in late November, the Bears offense could possibly be harmful. In Johnson’s first yr as an OC in 2022, the Lions scored 35+ factors thrice of their first 4 video games, then hit a rut for a couple of weeks, then scored 31+ factors 5 occasions of their final 9 video games. A repeat of creating an instantaneous enchancment, defenses adjusting, then Johnson adjusting to these feels fairly life like for the Bears this season. They received’t be good, but when Ben Johnson is the coach folks count on him to be, they could possibly be a troublesome out. The primary yr beneath Dan Campbell the Lions went 3-5-1 within the second half of the season, with three of these losses being by 4 factors or much less.
If this can be a competitively unhealthy crew, what appears to be like like a simple W in the summertime turns into a troublesome recreation. The league didn’t assist issues by making this a Thursday Evening recreation after the Eagles journey to Dallas.
