Analysis: A breakdown of position group matchups to determine who has the edge as the Bears try to shrug off consecutive painful losses against the struggling Patriots.
There are numerous media people and fans labeling Sunday's game against New England a must-win situation for the Bears.Nevertheless, the must-win situation probably came and left for the Bears with the loss to the Commanders. Last week's loss was simply adding insult.The Bears needed to get through their first nine games 7-2 or 6-3 to have a shot at the playoffs considering the difficulty of their schedule from here on in. They can't do that now.
What really makes this game a must-win situation is it is at home, they face the Green Bay Packers next week and their history of 10 straight defeats against the Cheeseheads dogs them. A two-game losing streak now can very easily become a four-game losing streak, if they don't take care of business this week. A four-game losing streak in Year 3 of a rebuild is a real problem for everyone on the coaching staff, if not the Bears front office.
It's the Bears and the Patriots in a noon game at Soldier Field Sunday, here's who wins and why.Caleb Williams at home is not the Caleb Williams who showed up on the road for the last two games. His home passer rating is 105.1 with a 67.3% completion rate. When he's operating freely, as he did against the Rams, Panthers and even in a home game at London against the Jaguars, all of the receivers are involved and no one is running off the field during plays.
The Patriots invite teams to run on them, as they rank only 26th stopping the run and have given up 159 yards a game on the ground over their last seven, and have allowed no less than 112 yards on the ground in any of those seven games. When D'Andre Swift and Roschon Johnson are allowed to get going, the Bears offense can click. The one exception was the Washington game, when they ran for 202 yards with scrambling help from Williams and still lost.
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