Brett Kollman breaks down Bears' struggles against Vikings, 'chaotic' NFC North
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What did the Bears do wrong in their 9‑3 loss to the Vikings?
Rahimi and Grodi. I mean, I'm just gonna make it happen. I'm a dog. Middays, ten AM to two on the score. Under 100 yards passing today. Screen for Swift with a ton of room and DeAndre Swift has a first down. Stays on his feet inside the 35. Touchdown saving tackle Eric Wilson. But not before the longest play of the day.
It's Rahimi and Grody on 104-3, the score. That was a refreshing moment in the Bears game. Screen pass to DeAndre Swift. There just were not a lot of explosive moments in the game at all for the Bears in that loss. Let's talk more Bears and more NFL right now with a returning guest to the score. Brett Coleman is an NFL media analyst, and you can see him on NFL Pro, which streams Monday. Thursday and Friday at four PM Central on NFL channel, NFL Plus, and the NFL's YouTube channel and the NFL app, providing detailed film and statistical breakdowns along with Trevor Sycoma. Brett, welcome back to Rahemian Groti. How are you? I think that was
the audio from that thirty two yarder late in the game, if I'm if I'm not mistaken, right? That is correct, sir. So that play is actually one I wanted to talk about. 'Cause that to me was when they finally started figuring it out. It was late in the game, don't get me wrong, but they finally started to get it, right? Flores was attacking these running backs in protection over and over and over again. Half the benefit of blitzing like he did. was just so that he could isolate the running backs and pass pro. You know, they had uh they got Dallas Turner matched up on a running back in cross protection on the play where he threw the interception, which is not really a world you want to live in, but that was the matchup that they forced.
Right? There was a intentional grounding that was forced because again, they lost in pass pro at the running back spot, so it forced Caleb uh to do that intentional grounding. And they finally punished it on that third thirty two yarder where they bluffed like the running back was gonna pass protect again and then he just slipped by, released out, got a thirty two yarder. And it looked like they were finally going to punish it and get a touchdown and and take the lead in the game. And then five plays later, Caleb popped his hammy. But yeah, I I think if they got to that screen game a little bit earlier, they might have won.
I'm so glad you brought that up because that's the part that I don't understand. And we know, Brett, that the screen game was a big part of Ben Johnson's offense when he was in Detroit. The Bears had trouble running it last year, but from what we saw out of the preseason, I didn't think that they would have an issue this season as badly as last year. I don't know why the screen wasn't used. I don't know why purposeful rollouts weren't used prior to this.
I I can sort of understand why they weren't rolling him out so much just because they weren't sure which bodies were coming. Right. And when you put seven on the line of scrimmage and you aren't sure if either of those edges are coming. And those edges, because they're so far out, because there's so many bodies, it's it's a tough angle for a tackle to handle. And so maybe it's okay. We keep 'em in the pocket, we can try to at least buy a little bit more time by m making them come from such a long way, from such a wide alignment to come get to Caleb. And if you roll him out then and if you choose wrong then you're kinda just feeding him up to the sharks and and making him go to the rush rather than the other way around.
So I can kinda understand that. I really wish they got to the screen game earlier. I really wish, um you know, they didn't waste so much time doing all that pre snap motion 'cause uh Okay. Yeah. They're in zone. We figured it out, guys. It's a defensive play zone. Maybe let's keep a little bit more uh play clock uh without motion so we can try to figure out who's coming and who's going. You know, it's just it's a unique defense. It's given Ben Johnson some issues in the past. He's also gotten floras in the past, but Flores evolved and you know, it's it's our favorite chess match in the league for a reason.
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