Projected cuts Bears should be all over.

They need to look at oline more than anything else.

Yes, I know it's "just preseason" but I'm left feeling a little disappointed at this point.  

You know how the enemy offenses looked their first drives vs the Bears the last 2 games?  I would have liked to see the Bears 1st-team offense look like that too.  You know what I mean by watching it -- smooth, precise, seamless, and professional.  Running 10 plays with 8 of them being successful plays that culminate in a TD.

Why does the Bears offense so seldom look like that?  What does it so often look jankety and out-of-whack and like a old car belching black smoke at the side of the road?

I'm good with our running game.  Not worried about the RB room at all.  We have good talent and depth there.

Not concerned at all with the DJ Moore trade.  He's a legit stud who's even better that I realized and is gonna be good for us.  Trouble is, the Bears offense, passing offense anyway, has been 90% DJ Moore catching an off-target pass from Fields and taking it for 40+ yards of YAC.

TBH, no one else on the 1st team offense has been all that impressive. 

Claypool has been on a milk carton since PS began.  Mooney, Kmet, and Tonyan have shown nothing.  
 
The OL should be a strength and much improved but I'm afraid it isn't happening....yet anyway.  It's a little disappointing considering the amount of investment made there.  We signed a G who apparently has attitude issues and has barely practiced in months (not a joke there), we moved Whitehair from G to C and then back to G again right before the season starts, Tevin Jenkins and Lucas Patrick are apparently incapable of staying healthy, and only 1 guy on the "starting 5" has shown any continuity or durability thus far.  [Kramer got hurt today too.]

Pretty hard for the OL to "gel" when you can't get more than 2-3 "starters" on the field together for any extended period of time.  It's really frustrating that the Bears can't seem to assemble a reliable, quality OL no matter how much money or draft picks they throw at the problem.

And then there's JF1.  It sure would be nice to see him throw the ball like Josh Allen did.  It sure would be nice to have seen him hit those back shoulder throws today.  He didn't.  The passes simply weren't very accurate.  

I'm not panicking by any means but Fields needs to look better than that in the RS.  The time for excuses is rapidly drawing to a close.  In just two weeks, it's put-up-or-shut-up time.  

Are we gonna see a competent NFL passing offense or not?

I agree with your entire post. But this part jumped out at me in particular.

The OL unit has new pieces and some very young tackles too. If ever there was a summercamp/preseason where the Bears OL needed the same 5 starters to be working and grinding together, all camp/preseason long, it was THIS year. Instead it was a crap shoot each day as to who was working together as the #1s.

That's a big problem.

I get it that injuries (and other stuff) happens... but it is a killer when it happens to a new group trying to establish something TOGETHER for the first time. A more veteran group (by vets I mean guys who have experience working together at these 5 positions - and know each other well) can overcome a changing lineup better. But for us, it just took the OL out at the knees. The more jumpled the lineup became the more the unit deteriorated. It really WAS herky-jerky. And that translated to the offense itself.

If the OL is misfiring then the offense is screwed until the unit is executing well as a unit. I think that's going to take some time now that the camp/preseason period never really happened for this group (being together as 5 starters). Expect the beginning of this season to be herky-jerky as you pointed out. I don't know how they can fix this thing without 5 guys getting experience together... really we've only had 1 guy of the 5 in there grinding each day of camp/preseason - Brax.

The D line has it's own tale of woe, but it hasn't looked good either. Soft. Way too soft.

Yeah, it is pretty deflating to be going up against Green Bay like this. I expect an ugly game and a loss. I don't know how it can be otherwise with the lines (both of them) not where they need to be.

I hate to say it but I'm afraid you might be right and I wouldn't have said that 2 weeks ago.  

Again, not out on a ledge here yet, but I'd be kicking some serious ass over the next 2 weeks if I'm Flus.  And I'd be really taking a hard look at my training staff and practice regimen cuz its freaking ridiculous the Bears can't keep more than 20% of its OL on the field at any one time.

Can we just sign Dalton Risner please and cut Lucas Patrick?  He and Jenkins are simply medically unreliable (at least Tevin is good when he can play, Patrick isn't).

Can we pick a damn starting center and stick with it?

Can the 1st team passing offense look a little more well-oiled?  

Am I really asking that much? 

Really really don't want to crap the bed yet again on Packers week.  And it feels like the offense is not where I hoped it would be to "be ready".