Losing to the Green Bay Packers in itself was bad enough for the Chicago Bears. It's become a trend they can't seem to break. They always seem to play their worst football against that team. Yet something was different about Sunday night at Lambeau Field. Something the Bears haven't had a taste of in a long time. Something that could shake the franchise right to the top.
They quit. To anybody who watched it was painfully obvious, especially on the defensive side of the ball. For a brief instant after an ugly first half, the Bears had a chance to cut into the Packers 27-10 deficit early in the 3rd quarter. They managed to force their first punt of the game. Unfortunately three plays later Mitch Trubisky airmailed a ball that was intercepted.
That seemed to be the final straw for the defense.
Four plays after that, Aaron Rodgers found Robert Tonyan for a 39-yard touchdown to make it 34-10. Then on the next Packers drive, Rodgers only threw the ball twice. The seven other plays were Jamaal Williams runs. The last one being a 13-yard score where multiple Bears defenders bounced off him on the way to the end zone. It was a laughable effort from a group that is supposed to be one of the best in the NFL. The first real sign they'd officially checked out. Things like that don't happen and can't happen on good teams. Ryan Pace was hired to find players who don't do that. Matt Nagy was hired to coach players well enough to avoid that. Seeing it happen on primetime television was a damning condemnation of both. This is why buzz has picked up that a house cleaning could be on the way. Something Jeff Hughes of Da Bears Blog, who's proven to have credible sources in the past, confirms."Where do we go from here? Where we have gone many times previously. A friend of mine, someone who knows what is happening at Halas Hall, texted me in the fourth quarter. “The team quit…it’s over…no chance this isn’t blown up.” There will soon be new leadership for the Chicago Bears."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9uGjXvS3ig&ab_channel=NBCSportsChicago







