2019 season recap

    I disappeared just like the Bears hopes of a playoff push after that week 15 loss to the Packers. With work consuming my free time in big chunks these past days mixed with the disappointment I felt this season, I just couldn't get my head straight to get back to writing, which has given me something I really like and makes me feel I get more into the flow of the game and the team, which at the same time gets me to care more about the Bears organizations decisions and results, so yeah really disappointed.

   The season is done with the Chiefs lifting up the Lombardi this year which is well deserved, playing comeback the whole postseason all the way to the Super Bowl, it was the Chiefs to lose this year with the type of offense they had and how they were performing and responding against tough defenses beating the Texans and Titans who were on a role coming form victories against the former champs and the number 1 seed, it seemed they had the momentum but the Chiefs just stole it from them, there I knew they had to be the favorites even against the number 1 defense. Patrick Mahomes is a great QB but the trophy was won by the performance of the whole team who never gave up, the Chiefs defense showed that they had good players and is somewhat confusing how average they were the whole season. The 49ers defense couldn't mask the average QB Jimmy Garoppolo is but even with the lead the defense couldn't stop the Chiefs offense, so its on them as much as its on Garoppolo and the coach for putting the game on Garoppolo's hands to shut it down.

   This matchup tells us much about how the Bears roster is, many would know from the start of the season that they aren't far away from being where they want to be, honestly they had everything they needed to pull it of but a fair share of factors just didn't show what was expected. Mitch Trubisky taking a step back in his development, Kyle Long hanging up his cleats and calling it a career leaving a huge gap at RG exposing every single position on the Oline finding no solution the whole year, having no TE to play the U position Matt Nagy covets so much and seems incapable of changing things up to make his offense work, Tarik Cohen not being utilised properly to take advantage of his speed but also him showing he is not willing to take the hits needed for longer gains, an average kicker still on trial, all this made it extremely hard to get points on the board. On defense the problems turned to be nice surprises, losing Akiem Hicks hurt the defense badly and then losing Danny Trevathan could have been worse but these injuries showed the high talent the roster had on the bench and even elevated it on some players on the field showing stability on defense and that Chuck Pagano can work with this unit.

   Clearly there are decisions to be made for this next season mostly on the offensive side, coaches were fired and new ones hired mainly i guess to try and elevate the play of Trubisky, with not much ammo to upgrade through the draft and limited salary cap to boost the roster on free agency, Ryan Pace doesn't have much to plug holes but what really needs to be fixed is the coach and QB situation, Pace brought Nagy in because he said he could make it work with Trubisky so if he fails he just might bright the other two down with him and that would result in another reset which no one wants but needs to happen.

What to thank the work of some people I follow for insight and information on the Bears and the game in general, 

Hub Arkush (@Hub_Arkush)

Robert Schmitz (YouTube)

Bears Bar Room (YouTube)

Brett Kollman (YouTube)

Walter Cherepinsky (walterfootball.com)

and UrinatingTree (YouTube) for my type of entertainment content