The positivity surrounding the Chicago Bears was short-lived. After their 40-20 win in Washington last week, the Bears fell flat at home in a 19-13 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. On top of that, quarterback Justin Fields exited the game due to a right-hand injury and could miss some time.
670 The Score’s Danny Parkins of the Audacy original podcast “1st & Pod” ranted about where the Bears are at, how exhausting pressing the reset button is, and the lack of continuity in Chicago.
“It really feels like coach: bad. Quarterback: bad. Line: bad. GM: maybe bad. He hired the coach, he traded for Claypool, but he also traded the number one pick for D.J. Moore and picked the Panthers to do the trade with. Some of his draft picks look good,” Parkins said (38:40 in player above). “They’ve got a lot of cap space but are they hitting the reset button again?
“It’s exhausting to hit the reset button. And if you hit the reset button and you draft a new quarterback, you can’t give him Matt Eberflus so now you’re firing another coach just two years after you hired him. And then should you hire a new GM so that for the first time in forever you have a quarterback, a coach, and a GM all brought in together? That makes a lot of sense. But now you’re changing it up again.”
The Bears are now 4-19 under Eberflus. After Lovie Smith was the face on the sideline for nearly a decade, Chicago is now on its fourth head coach in the last 10 years.
“The beauty of the competent organizations is they’ve got continuity. They’ve got an identity. They know who they are. They know what they want to be. They know what they’ve been,” Parkins continued. “The Bears, it’s Marc Trestman and then it’s John Fox and then it’s Matt Nagy and then it’s Matt Eberflus.
While winning organizations are able to find their identity, the Bears are still searching for theirs.
“It’s old-school defensive coach, old defensive coach, and then young innovative weird offensive coach, and then back to old defensive coach, then back to an offensive coach,” said Parkins. “They don’t know what they want to be.
“And then this GM has to inherit this coach and then this coach has to inherit this quarterback and then this quarterback gets pawned off on this GM. It never makes any sense. It never makes any sense. They can’t even snap the ball!”
We’re only six weeks into the 2023 NFL season but it’s getting late early for the Bears. It could very well be another offseason of change in Chicago.