W10vsMIN: Back breaker

   As expected, even with another good performance by their defense, the losses keep piling up with the Bears offense falling flat again, this time to an average Vikings squad. The game ended being close but just because Bears defense and special teams showed up to help put point on the board and stop Dalvin Cook from being a factor in this game. In short, the offense did nothing to help their team break the losing streak. They have fallen to a 5-5 record going to their bye week.

   Nick Foles looked out of sync, he had chances to gain big chunks of yardage but never saw the open receiver down field, instead he went with short escape routes or held the ball to long, a still struggling Oline at best means he didn't really had that much time to begin with. Truth be told, the Oline played better, if graded their improvement would be from an F to an F+, still mediocre. Rashaad Coward is still getting snaps, kill me now. Germain Ifedi, Alex Bars and Cody Whitehair still can't get in the same page in some plays and are still struggling to win position in run plays but of the bunch they are the ones that made the Oline play better even if it was brief. Charles Leno Jr. is just not good enough anymore. Cordarrelle Patterson isn't a running back, he showed fight and it's what this team needs, if he maintains that fire he should get the ball but he isnt a running back and cant be considered to be the backup, not with this Oline. I expect David Montgomery to get his spot back once he is out of the concussion protocol and have Lamar Miller or Artavious Pierce as backup RB. Ryan Nall shows to be a good football player and deserves to get some snaps, it would be awesome if he could play better at FB but he isn't there yet, still he could be better than J.P. Holtz and this team needs a good FB. Screens and bubbles will continue to not work if the wideouts and TEs keep missing blocks, Allen Robinson as talented as he is as a receiver is not showing to be interested in blocking, could an extension make him better? guess it will be a mystery this season. Anthony Miller is the Chicago Bears in a nutshell, has the ability to be great but falls short most of the time. Now with all this being said, knowing your team is the coaches job to help them play better by using their strengths, so why did Bill Lazor play 3rd downs like this team was the 98 Vikings? No short or intermediate routes and didn't try to exploit the middle of the field. Are these coaches incapable of accepting that they have Oline problems or do they simply don't know what to do? That they need to pick apart the other teams defense by getting small chunks of yards to keep the chains moving and help the run game open up the field more, that it doesn't matter if a receiver gets deep when your QB is getting blasted by blitzers and seems to be taking a mental toll on him? Foles was supposed to be better with RPOs but its not really used much. 

   The defense is playing to win, morality must be hanging by a thread and I believe it will break if they lose this next one to Green Bay. Two more loses and I believe this season will be officially over, there is little to try to salvage it, one move is to insert recently signed Eric Kush to RG and push Ifedi to RT, the other is to change back to Mitch Trubisky. Nick Foles has shown what he can do with this offense and it almost cost him his spine, if the Oline improves with Kush then let Trubisky help improve it more with his mobility, the Bears have literally nothing to lose at this point, if it keeps falling it will not be because of Foles, it will be because coaching and the decision making was not on point, let your first round QB go out in flames, there is a chance that he still has some unfinished business.