![]() ![]() Pretend Matt Eberflus’ brain didn’t turn to hot soup against the Denver Broncos and the Bears won that ballgame. The team would be 2-3, on the periphery of the wildcard conversation, with a chance to win their third straight against a Justin Jefferson-less Minnesota Vikings this Sunday. On the Potentiality of an Interesting Season Why Do I Like the Chicago Bears this Week? Schmitzħ35 Comments Week Six: Vikings at Bears Open Thread Tagged: Chicago Bears, Justin Fields, Luke Getsy, Matt Eberflus, Postgame Notes, Robert K. It wasn’t the Vikings offense’s best game (I’m still not sure why they were so averse to spreading out their WRs and passing relentlessly), but that’s not important - the defense did what they had to do on Sunday by shutting out Minnesota in the 2nd half and offering their offense 6 opportunities to take the ball and score.Jaylon Johnson broke up passes, Tyrique Stevenson stopped Jordan Addison on a key 3rd & long, Zacch Pickens added a TFL, and TJ Edwards powered past Alexander Mattison to get home on a blitz & tip a Kirk Cousins pass in the air & create a huge interception that Tremaine Edmunds was ready for. Everyone on Defense chipped in. The 2023 Bears defense has received plenty of grief on this site this year, but with the season in the balance they played as good a game as you could ask yesterday.We’ll cross some of those bridges when we get to them, but I can’t help feeling like an era ended on Sunday. What do Matt Eberflus’ season goals become?ĭoes a total reset of the organization become inevitable? If this team falls to 1-6, what keeps them competing? There are conversations to be had about Fields’ eyes against Brian Flores’ blitzes, how strange it was to see the Bears abandon the run while it was hot, Tyson Bagent’s overall performance & more, but now that Chicago’s starting Quarterback is likely to miss time with a dislocated thumb, the story of the season may change in a flash - next the Bears host a “Bad, But Not That Bad” Las Vegas Raiders team in a game that would’ve been winnable with Fields but has now become a battle of backup QBs. ![]() The 2023 Bears always make one mistake too many - that’s a direct indictment on their coaching, if you ask me. The Bears’ defense held the Vikings’ offense to 220 total yards and 12 offensive points, yet Chicago allowed its 4th defensive touchdown in 6 weeks and lost 19-13 all the same. It’s a damn shame they managed to lose too. That may be the death knell for any playoff hopes the organization still had. All of the intrinsic momentum that winning your first game of the season providesĪnd yet, despite these advantages, Chicago lost the game and fell to 1-5 on the season.A parade of returning Chicago starters (Kyler Gordon, Jaylon Johnson, Teven Jenkins, and Eddie Jackson) that looked to boost both sides of the ball.Plenty of tape on how the Vikings would handle Justin Fields defensively (thanks to Jalen Hurts providing a close comparison).A surprise Wednesday announcement that Vikings’ superstar Justin Jefferson would be placed on IR, undoubtedly causing the Minnesota to scramble while planning their offense.A ‘Mini-Bye’ that afforded Chicago extra time to rest, scout, and prep for this game.These advantages included (but were not limited to): Having been a Bears fan for over a decade, I’ve seen Sunday’s game more times than I’d like to admit.Ĭhicago was given a myriad of circumstantial advantages heading into the weekend’s tilt against a listing 1-4 Minnesota Vikings team. ![]() With players like Brian Burns fueling the pass rush and DBs like Jeremy Chinn on the back-end, a defense running Tite fronts, 3-safety looks, and other wild concepts caught offenses off-guard to start the season and led to Matt Rhule’s Panthers hitting the ground running early.Ģ59 Comments Someone’s Era Is Over In Chicago, But Whose? For those who don’t know, Snow made his mark on the NFL in Carolina by bringing some of college football’s cutting-edge anti-air-raid ideas into the NFL and had great success early in the 2021 season. The former Carolina Panthers DC (and former Baylor Bears DC) provides an innovative mindset to a Chicago team defense desperately needs a fresh batch of ideas. He will work with advanced scouting, Matt Eberflus said. The Bears have hired former defensive coordinator Phil Snow as their senior defensive analyst. If the 2023 Chicago Bears weren’t a 1-5 team with an injured starting QB, a lame-duck Head Coach, and no sense of direction in 2023, I’d be much more excited about the recent hiring of Senior Defensive Analyst Phil Snow.
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