Chicago Bears focused on progress heading into game against Minnesota Vikings

LAKE FOREST, In poor health. — Impatience is one thing Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields and large receiver Darnell Mooney can not afford.

The Bears (2-2) made small strides in Sunday’s 20-12 loss to the New York Giants and hope to construct on these towards the Minnesota Vikings (3-1) this week, even with the offense mired close to the underside of the league in most passing classes.

“I perceive the method we now have to undergo with our offense and all the pieces being new, everyone nonetheless studying and simply making an attempt to imagine within the offense itself,” Mooney stated. “It is a course of. It is a journey that you just simply have to remain into it, imagine in and belief the method.”

Persistence is troublesome to maintain when the Bears are thirty first on offense and final in passing.

Fields’ 11-of-22 effort for 174 yards Sunday represented a season’s greatest in yardage and likewise included a 56-yard completion to Mooney, the crew’s longest cross play this 12 months. Fields has thrown solely 9 landing passes for a profession that features 14 begins and 16 video games. He has two TD passes this 12 months.

The dearth of receiver assist has been an issue, till Mooney broke out with 4 catches for a season-high 94 yards final week. As of Thursday, there have been 58 gamers within the league with extra receptions than the entire Bears large receivers mixed (15).

“I imply, it is form of exhausting to go to the positives when you do not rating factors,” Mooney stated.

Offensive coordinator Luke Getsy tried to seek out pluses throughout the passing assault.

“I believed there was plenty of good moments,” Getsy stated.

None of these concerned the top zone, nonetheless. The Bears have scored six touchdowns however solely two of their final 32 possessions.

“The deep ball to Mooney was superior to get that going,” Getsy stated of the 56-yarder. “Was it the second play of the sport? We hit one other one deep over the center.

“So, the play cross was actually good. We gotta win a pair extra battles on third down.”

Fields has the worst passer ranking amongst NFL beginning quarterbacks at 58.7 and simply climbed over 50% completions for the season at 34 of 67.

“Properly, I do not assume he is had a tough month,” Getsy stated “I feel he is gotten higher every week. I feel he is rising tremendously. And you realize, it isn’t simple. We’re taking part in good soccer groups. And it isn’t simple to develop into the extent of quarterback that he desires to develop into and I do know that he can develop into.”

The struggling Bears offense went 0-for-3 towards the Giants within the purple zone.

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“I imply, I feel this previous week was the one week we actually did not, you realize, do what we needed to do within the purple zone,” Fields stated. “(It is) simply execution from everyone on the offense and that is principally it. As soon as we get that then we’ll be good.”

Blocking issues have been an enormous a part of it, with Fields absorbing 16 sacks, tied for the second most within the NFL. The offensive line faces extra uncertainty with proper guard/middle Lucas Patrick taking part in left guard now for injured Cody Whitehair. He was injured towards the Giants.

All of this makes it troublesome for the teaching employees to guage Fields with an eye fixed on the longer term.

“We now have much more than simply evaluating Justin Fields happening proper now,” Getsy stated. “I feel that is easy-that’s what everyone desires, to guage the quarterback on a regular basis, and I get it. It is all good.

“This can be a course of for all 11. There’s so many elements going into what is going on on round Justin and to simply sit right here and say, ‘oh we’re solely targeted on is that this man going to be the man or not,’ that is actually not even on my thoughts, or I do not assume that is on anyone’s thoughts on this constructing.”

The Bears appear satisfied it is going to take sluggish progress and preventing by way of their issues weekly moderately than one breakout recreation to repair the passing recreation.

“So far as that phrase breakout, I do not actually assume in that time period,” Getsy stated.