Chicago Bears: Who’s to blame for loss to Saints?
By Usayd Koshul
After a defeat at the hands of the New Orleans Saints, who’s to blame for the Chicago Bears week seven performance?
After a second straight loss, the Chicago Bears find themselves sitting at 3-3 through the first six games of the 2019 season. In the Bears latest loss, there’s a lot of blame to go around. For those that watched the game, the Bears never seemed to be in the game at all. And for those that didn’t watch the game, the box score of 36-25 clearly seems deceiving.
It’s clear that the Bears were never really in the game to begin with. Had it not been for that Cordarrelle Patterson kickoff return for a touchdown, the Bears likely would have ended the first half with just three points or none at all.
Even during the second half, the offense was totally flat. The Bears abandoned the running game which led to an offensive performance where the Bears couldn’t get anything going in both the running and passing game. And the 15 fourth-quarter points the Bears scored don’t mean much since the Saints practically had the game wrapped up.
Where most people want to blame quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, who does deserve some of the blame, it’s also worth noting that the defense looked lost against the Saints offense and that head coach Matt Nagy opted to run the ball just seven times the entire game, which is a problem considering the fact that Trubisky ended the game with 54 passing attempts.
In other words, this was a game that was lost due to an offensive gameplan that featured a lopsided run-pass ratio which is a problem because Trubisky isn’t the type of quarterback who’s going to win a game when he’s asked to throw the ball 54 times. He is, however, the kind of quarterback that can win a game when he throws the ball 25-30 times in a game.
Essentially, by the time the fourth quarter rolled around the Bears were in too deep a hole to even begin thinking about coming back and beating the Saints. The 15 fourth-quarter points the Bears scored make things seem a bit better however at halftime, it was a one-possession game.
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Point the finger at whoever you’d like. Nagy, Trubisky, the defense, or even the entire team. But in the NFL, teams win and lose together. There are 10 games left in the season for the Bears to figure things out but this week seven loss to the Saints is the kind of loss where the entire team deserves the blame.