Is a Chicago Bears team that is 3-3 really finished? After all, most teams aren’t usually dead in a given year until they’ve lost seven games. This team hasn’t reached that point yet. They were 3-3 last year and ended up going on a run. Why can’t they do it again? Well for starters last year was a lot different. For one the division was much easier to deal with and the Bears also didn’t have near the injury concerns they do now. However, Alex Brown believes the season is dead for another reason.
The offense is completely lifeless.
The former defensive end among others were polled following the defeat against New Orleans with a simple question. Is the Bears’ 2019 over? Those like Lance Briggs and others still held out hope that they could figure things out. Brown was not one of them. He made it clear that the team has spent six weeks trying to fix a broken offense with no success. Why should he think that’s gone to change over the final 10?
“Absolutely not. It’s over. Listen, and this is why…Because it’s been six weeks. This offense hasn’t struggled for two weeks. The defense has struggled for the past two weeks. I could see that being fixed. The offense hasn’t shown me anything outside of what they showed me today the entire season. I don’t think there’s anything to be fixed there. I think this is what the offense is. This is what they are.
So if this is what they are, then don’t tell me you’ve been at Halas Hall and you haven’t been trying to change it for the past six weeks. You’ve been trying to change it. Nothing’s changing. So yes, it is over.”
Alex Brown is harsh but not entirely wrong either
People may not want to hear something like that, but Brown isn’t stupid. He’s watched the same thing fans have for almost two months. He also knows a lot more about the game than fans do. So when he says something like this, it isn’t some sort of Skip Bayless attempt at being a shock jock for television ratings. He speaks what he feels to be the truth. Nothing head coach Matt Nagy has done through six games suggests he can fix the offense.
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He’s geared everything around the quarterback position being the focal point this season. The problem is neither quarterback he has right now, Mitch Trubisky or Chase Daniel, can execute the system at a high enough level. Normally a coach would then turn to the running game to help things out but that hasn’t been an option all year due to poor blocking and execution up front. Why should anybody believe Nagy will suddenly make it all better in the coming weeks against some well-coached opponents like the Chargers and Eagles?
Anything can happen but Brown is a realist. He’s been told things would get better too many times and they haven’t. Facts are facts. The Bears just aren’t equipped to make a run in 2019.
