Emma: Bears Leaving Real Reasons For Concern

The upside is if we have a really crap season then we could be in the running for the top pick and a shot at a potential franchise QB.

man that is a nice booby prize for many who were thinking 9-10 wins isn't it? I was thinking 6-8 wins, maybe an outside shot at 9, but even I would be stunned at sub 5 wins.

The defense really did struggle with stopping drives but I was still impressed with their goal line defense. I agree that the defense should have done better shutting down drives early but the offense still needed to help some. You can't keep the defense out there that much and expect good results.

I wonder if the defense did so poorly stopping drives because they are just not that good yet or if it was more of a product of not being prepared for that type of offense. The Chiefs were throwing short passes across the middle non-stop. They ran a standard west-coast offense and it looked flawless against the Bears. It almost seemed like they weren't expecting it which would be on the coaches.

Was it a product of poor defensive play are poor game planning.  Could be both I suppose.  I will admit that the west-coast offense can be hard to stop though.  It's designed to move the ball gradually and get yards after the catch.  When planned for it can be stopped though and the Bears made the Chiefs look like they ran it to perfection.

On glaring issue I kept seeing was the terrible coverage on punt returns.  Guys were not getting downfield enough to stop them and when they were they couldn't make the tackle.