The Chicago Bears should be ashamed of themselves again

When the Chicago Bears started this season, it was clearly a rebuilding year. Everyone knows that they are going to be horrible so being 2-2 after four weeks shouldn’t be that much of a surprise. It might even be a little bit better of a record than expected if we are being honest.

However, it is how they got to this 2-2 that is just painful to watch. For one, it is sad to say, but Justin Fields has been incredibly underwhelming so far this season. That continued in New York for the second-year Chicago Bears quarterback.

Fields went 11/22 with 169 passing yards. He rushed seven times for 52 yards in addition to that. He didn’t throw an interception but he also didn’t have a rushing or passing touchdown. Again, it was wildly underwhelming.

Yes, the offensive line isn’t great and he has very limited weaponry. However, that does not excuse him from doing pretty much nothing at this point in his career to make others around him better. You can usually see that the elite quarterbacks can do that relatively early. So far, it hasn’t clicked for Justin Fields.

There are a lot of reasons that the Chicago Bears were defeated on Sunday.

It certainly isn’t all his fault either. The play calling was atrocious and the game management wasn’t much better either. Matt Eberflus is a first-year head coach that clearly gets his guys to play hard but this was far from his (or his staff’s) best performance.

Through it all, they had a chance to come back and beat the New York Giants late in the fourth quarter. Like the Bears, the Giants are a bad team that found themselves at 2-1 so one of the bad teams was going to have a 3-1 start. There are worse places to be for a “bad team”.

Unfortunately, trailing 20-12, Velus Jones Jr. dropped a punt return and the Giants recovered it. They took over and ran out the clock enough that the Bears’ offense had no time to do anything when they got the ball back really late.

So underwhelming quarterback play, conservative play calling, and a very bad play on special teams gave the Giants a big win over the Bears. That sounds very familiar as the Bears have been dealing with this type of stuff for decades. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Now, the Bears will host the 3-1 Minnesota Vikings next week. After this terrible loss to the Giants, this feels like the point in the season where it goes off the rails. If they can’t even hold a lead over the New York Giants outside of a 3-0 opening field goal, they have problems.

They did find themselves in the red zone a fair amount of times which is nice but they need to stop settling for Field Goals. If they are able to somehow figure that out, they can start thinking about becoming a solid team. That will take effort from pretty much everyone that had a bad game this week.