Even playing sideways the Bears have enough to beat the Vikings
Nobody deserved to win that one



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A few things were stunningly evident in the Bears “win” over the Vikings on Monday Night Football.
When Matt Eberflus is fired on January 8 his tenure with the Bears will not have ended without a division win. So, yay?
Luke Getsy’s great game plan last week against the Lions is now proven to be of the “blind squirrel finds a nut” variety. In Detroit he suppressed his fetish for the doomed wide receiver screen and he routinely put Justin Fields in position to play to his strengths. The Bears dominated the Lions for 57 minutes (which, admittedly was a lot more impressive before the Packers dominated them for 60 minutes four days later) and a lot of it was due to their offense imposing its will. Last night against the Vikings the offensive game plan was embarrassing, even by Bears standards and lord knows the bar for embarrassment is very, very high. The Bears played horizontal football. At one point in the third quarter ESPN showed a stat that Fields was averaging POINT EIGHT YARDS per attempt. And it wasn’t due to a paucity of attempts. He’d thrown 20 times. The wide receiver screens were back in such vast amounts that clearly Luke bought a gross of them at Costco on some amazing Black Friday deal. If you’re so afraid to let your quarterback face blitzes that you just give him no read passes to throw over and over and over again, it says as much about your lack of aptitude as it does whatever you think his is. It was embarrassing and mostly it was just boring. Nobody wants to watch that shit. If you can’t be good at least be fun, and the Bears were neither. And it doesn’t say a whole lot for the Vikings that they couldn’t beat that.
The Bears will learn the wrong lessons from this. They think that horse shit game plan worked.
It was just so unnecessary. If your goal is to evaluate your quarterback as it looks increasingly clear that you’re going to have the number one overall pick in the draft, what the fuck did you try to learn with that? And for the conspiracy theorists who think they want to give up on Fields, wouldn’t letting him try to drop back play after play have “proven” the need to move on from him more than whatever the Bears actually did attempt to do?