With the bye week over, the Bears will now play 12 straight games to finish the regular season. After the first five weeks, Chicago is 3-1 and first in the NFC North. Vic Fangio’s defense is getting after opposing quarterbacks, creating turnovers and playing fundamentally sound – and Matt Nagy’s …
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Nagy’s play calling must improve for offense to be successful
First-year head coach Matt Nagy started the 2018 NFL season with the Bears the same way his 2017 tenure as the Chiefs' offensive coordinator ended: with a one-point loss. In last year’s AFC Wild Card Game, the Chiefs built a 21-3 lead over the Titans heading into halftime. However, Nagy’s Chiefs …
Bears have primetime opportunity to change old narrative
For the past three years, the Bears have been known as losers. That is exactly how an organization will be labeled when it has 14 wins and 34 losses in three seasons. To help change that notion, though, the Bears hired Matt Nagy to be their new head coach and since then have surrounded the team with …
Trubisky positioned to have best sophomore year of 2017 first-round quarterbacks
Heading into the 2017 NFL Draft, the national consensus around the league was that the quarterback class was “weak.” Among the top QBs, neither Mitch Trubisky, Deshaun Watson or Patrick Mahomes stood out to be considered the best of the group and each had their respective flaws. Trubisky lacked …
Bank On It: Bears’ offense to leap into top 10
Plain and simple, the Bears should end up being a top-10 offense in 2018. And Bears fans shouldn’t be surprised by that. That may be a bold statement, considering the group last season was ranked towards the bottom of the league in almost every statistical category. But with how general manager Ryan …
Bears must take aggressive approach in free agency
When it comes to free agency, there are two ways a team can approach it. The first being aggressively, paying more for the top-tier free agents with the aim of adding impactful players. Or conservatively, spending less on the lower-tier free agents hoping that players can help fill gaps on a …
