Chicago Bears: 5 burning questions about the offense

Going into training camp and the preseason, the Chicago Bears have a lot of questions surrounding their offense.

Two years ago when the Chicago Bears hired Matt Nagy to be their head coach, fans immediately felt something they hadn’t in quite some time. From the get-go, Nagy was an excited, positive and outgoing character who brought the team together. He instilled hope from the very first moment he spoke to the fans and media.

Nagy’s background was supposed to help lift the Bears’ offense from the ashes to better days ahead. In 2018, the rookie head coach saw his team take a small step forward, finishing as the league’s 19th ranked offense in yards per game.

Last year, though, the offense seemed to regress in every sense of the word.

Whether it was Mitchell Trubisky looking like a rookie all over again, the offensive line falling apart or the run game failing to find itself, the Bears were miserable on that side of the ball. Heck, Nagy was at plenty of fault throughout the season as well.

A year after winning the NFC North and seeing so much hope brought to the future of this team, and specifically the offense, the Bears fell backwards to the NFL’s 29th ranked offense, putting up a measly 296.8 yards per game.

They ranked similarly in points per game (29th), rushing yards per game (27th), passing yards per game (25th), first downs achieved (28th) and third down percentage (25th).

All in all, they were horrendous. Needless to say, there are going to be continuous questions regarding the offense all the way up to the first game of the season. Five, in particular, are overly worrisome. Hopefully, these are answered early on in the regular season — and let’s hope these answers are the ones we want to hear. If not, the Bears are doomed once again.