I’ll bite. Yes the team is better than their record imo.

The biggest issue by far is defensive scheme. 100% the front 7 getting 0 pressure is an absolute shit show and that’s on scheme/coaching.

The offense has at times been pretty good. The defense has never gotten consistent pressure or forced a lot of turnovers. (a blow out against a rookie AOC-led Raiders team doesn’t count imo, they had McDaniels as their head coach)

Yes it is, there have been many blown opportunities due to coaching. Then the injury bug has been prevalent. There is yet to be a game when every starter is playing together.

I think marginally, yes. The injuries to the offensive line and defensive secondary have been a real problem this year. All teams have to deal with injuries, but the Bears have been undermanned all season at those two position groups, and I think it’s shown up in the game results. If their pass defense and blocking had been marginally better in a couple of games, I can see the Bears scratching out a couple more wins. If they were 4-5 right now, we’d be talking about this team completely differently.

We only need like 52 more players and Super Bowl here we come

I think we have the talent of a 4-5 win team. Which is exactly what our record says we are.

While you can point out a dozen holes in the roster and bad coaching, you have to accept that most of the other teams in the league feel the exact same way. We play a lot of those teams who are also bad rosters.

We’re a bottom 5 team just like our record says.

No but the idea is that you should say least be able to win some games that you normally wouldn’t win with excellent coaching and outstanding execution. Think Jets over Eagles and Steelers over Ravens earlier this year. No one really expected those teams to win, but they did despite a complete lack of offense. We have the reverse. We won two games because one team thought that we were so inept that they didn’t show up for a half, and the other team was suffering ineptitude until they fired it.

Yes. Hands down, everyone is improving, and we are learning which young guys will be around and which ones won’t come 2024.

I’m not a doomer. So I’ll note that people don’t really respect how shitty we were 3 seasons ago and how bad our defense really was.

You are what your record says you are.

I think overall we are better than our record, not much but a little bit. We have a decent RB and WR core, our OLine is getting better, defense is mostly miss but has some hits. I think this team under a different regime is a solid 500 team, just good enough to sometime squeak a wild card but not good enough to be considered favorites.

Nope, its a shit roster.

Nope

Probably. I think the team we have on the field would have won week 1.

Young guys are definitely improving.

I think so. We lose a lot of games almost exclusively due to poor coaching. Injuries have played a part as well to be fair. But in terms of talent, we have multiple pro bowl caliber players on both sides of the ball.

Defensively, with a line backing core of Edwards, Edmunds, and even Jack Sanborn, we should have way better results than we do. Those are some talented guys out there. Not to mention the addition of Sweat. Our secondary has good players too, Eddie, JJ, Brisker when healthy… I always struggle to find a reason we have struggled so much defensively given our roster.

We have plenty of talent on offense as well. We have a great RB room, a top 10 WR, and a surprisingly solid OLine (again, when healthy) that maintains one of the best rushing attacks in the league and has drastically improved their pass protection

I think you add a few first rounders and maybe a free agent or two and suddenly we have a very good roster. The problem has been and will continue to be the coaching.

Any competent coaching staff will have this team at at least 4-5 wins by now.

I would say they 100% should have beaten Denver. That would put us at 3-6. Based on how Eberflus prepped the team for week 1 vs Packers (or lack thereof), that game was at least winnable. The fallout from losing vs GB was a clear distraction heading into Tampa.

Momentum in the NFL is underrated. The team was in total disarray heading into KC. We do not beat KC with the roster we have, I’m not saying that at all. However, coming off a beating but still 2-1, the mood would be considerably different than it is being 0-3.

The reason we started so poorly was how little the 1st team played in the pre-season. Anyone saying this is a playoff team is probably wrong. However the NFL is so fluid that anything can happen. Getting into the WC weekend should have been at least on the table.

Look at Cleveland beating the 49ers in week 6. SF was undefeated and Cleveland was starting a QB we determined wasn’t good enough to make our roster. Anything can happen, so if the Bears back into the playoffs, then 60 minutes later we all find out.

This team should not be 2-7.