Chicago Bears: How good can they be next season?

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Who is to blame?

Everyone wants to attack the quarterback when a team isn’t successful. It’s never anyone else’s fault, just the quarterback. When the team does well, the quarterback greats credit in most cases too. That’s the nature of the job.

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For anyone that hasn’t detailed out the 2019 season, here’s what we need to know when discussing this. The offensive line play was pitiful at best during the first seven-ish games. The Bears also were a top team in most drops. That doesn’t help Trubisky.

The tight end position was botched. It seemed like there was a new player there every two weeks. There were way too many issues there.

Nagy refused to run the football for half the season. In 2018, they ran the football well and won 12 games. In 2019, they didn’t run the ball well at all and won eight games. Running the football wins games.

The season never really had a chance to start for the offense. For example, in the first offensive play, Tarik Cohen dropped a simple pitch play. Trubisky and the offense had a rough game. They failed to score one touchdown.

Things didn’t get easier for Trubisky after that, between all of his receivers, they would drop 28 passes from him. That’s 5.5% of his passes. On top of that, he was sacked 38 times, while being forced to run 22 times. With that, 18.4% of his passes were considered “bad throws.”

The offensive would stall on most drives. That kept the defense out there on the field for a lot longer than they had to be. Chicago relied on their defense to bail them out. Even when they would, the offense couldn’t pick up their slack.

The Bears started off 3-1 and lost four straight. At 3-5, they needed to finish at least 7-1 to make the playoffs. They finished 5-3 and missed the playoffs by two games.

Still, after all of that, Trubisky had a career-high three game-winning drives, and three comeback wins in his eight wins.

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