How the Chicago Bears can fix their offense over the offseason

A path to success for the Chicago Bears’ offensive attack

The Chicago Bears have been one of the most inconsistent of the year. They started the year off by winning five of its first six games, then they hit a six-game losing streak and finished up the regular season by winning three of their last four games.

However, when looking at the overall year, some trends appear. The first trend that stands is their win streaks were mainly due to the teams they were playing, as the Bears only beat one team with a winning record all year. The other trend that stuck out especially during their end of the season win streak was they used more of a power running game than their Air Raid type offense Matt Nagy prefers.

If the Chicago Bears are going to be a better team in 2021 they are going to have to commit fully to the power running game. This is the type of offense the Chicago Bears should run as it fits their personnel better, and allows for more play downfield in the passing game.

Let Montgomery lead the offense

The player who would benefit the most from this change in offensive scheme is running back David Montgomery. During the four weeks (Weeks 12-16) the Bears went to this type of offense, Montgomery was second in the NFL in rushing yards per game behind only Derrick Henry with an average of 105.8 yards per game.

This is quite a jump from the 52.4 yards per game he averaged in the first 11 weeks of the season. If the team gives more downhill carries to Montgomery next year as they did during this four-game stretch, he easily could be one of the leading rushers in the NFL next year.

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The other player who would benefit from this is whoever is playing quarterback for the team. When the Chicago Bears used Mitchell Trubisky more under center and allowed him to be benefited from a strong play-action game this year his production shot up. This included his game against the Giants when he earned his highest Pro Football Focus grade since 2018. Even if the Bears decide to move on from Trubisky, the new quarterback will also benefit from this system.

If Matt Nagy is willing to commit full-time to more of a power running game next year, the team will need to add a couple of pieces in the draft to help make this transition. One piece they are going to need to add is more of a run-blocking tight end as both Cole Kmet and Jimmy Graham are more pass-catching tight ends. The team could easily pick up a player on day three of the draft as guys like Shaun Beyer and Luke Farrell would fit this mold.

Another position the team might want to look at adding is a backup running back. This is a need as the team’s other leading ball carriers Cordarrelle Patterson and Tarik Cohen are far from power backs. A player who would make sense for the Chicago Bears on day three to fill this need would be Kylin Hill of Mississippi State.

One more position the team would be wise to address in either free agency or the 2021 NFL Draft would be fullback. The teams that run the type of offense Chicago would be wise to run next year the best, are the San Francisco 49ers and Cleveland Browns and both teams have some of the best fullbacks in football in Kyle Juszczyk and Andy Janovich.

The Bears could add a player such as Tennessee’s Anthony Firkser in free agency or draft some like Michigan’s Ben Mason in the sixth or seventh round.

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Any way you look at it, in order for the Chicago Bears to be a team that could make some noise in the playoffs next year, they are going to need to change their offense. I mean, it’s not like what they are doing now is working well.

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