After a week of distractions, some thought the Chicago Bears would have extra motivation. Instead, they discovered more embarrassment in a 41-10 blowout loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
when talking about factors that weren’t allowing him to play freely, someone might want to start now.
The Bears are 0-3 for the first time since 2016 — a 3-13 season — and there’s little to suggest they’re going to come out of this funk anytime soon. How are they viewed nationally? “If we do that, guess what? We keep doing that, it will crack. It will crack. So that’s the biggest thing. That was my message to them in there. And like I said, the opportunity may come right around the corner.”
“We don’t really know what’s happening,” Claypool said. “I feel like we’re putting in the work during the week and it’s just not really translating to Sunday. So we just have to either tweak what we’re doing or do it a little better. But it’s tough to put a finger on.
The shock of the midweek ruckus was initially jarring to players, but there’s a level of resiliency in the locker room. It’s a young roster, and shifting the focus back to football isn’t as difficult as you would imagine. Still, no one can deny the Bears had distractions — plural — to navigate. Is it a reason they got blown out? Probably not.
“But you come in morning, and I’ve got to give a lot of credit to the coaches. They just confronted it face on and then we almost just cracked jokes about it because it just is what it is. You just roll with the punches, I guess.” Maybe the most glaring play came early in the fourth quarter. On third-and-goal from the Kansas City 6-yard line, Fields had Cole Kmet open on a crosser. Looks like there is a touchdown pass there. Fields didn’t attempt the pass, took off and tried to run. It looks like he gets hit in the helmet by Chiefs linebacker Drue Tranquill at the end of a 3-yard run.
The defense was credited with five quarterback hits in the loss here, two for Yannick Ngakoue and one each for DeMarcus Walker, Justin Jones and Gervon Dexter. Not enough. The front is not creating negative plays and you have to be able to do that in this age of passing offenses. The players getting paid on the second level of the defense aren’t going to make impact plays and the defensive backs aren’t going to either when the line cannot play disruptive football.
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