Chicago Bears vs. New England Patriots: Full Report Card Grades for Chicago
Published by Matt Eurich on October 26, 2014
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Chicago Bears
Following a 51-23 loss on Sunday afternoon to the New England Patriots, the Chicago Bears head into their bye week with a record of 3-5.
The Patriots moved the football down the field seamlessly on their first drive of the football game and never looked back. They went into halftime up 38-7 behind Tom Brady’s marvelous first half.
Brady completed 18 of his 21 passes in the first half with four touchdowns and a quarterback rating of 146.5. He finished the game with 354 passing yards, five touchdowns, zero interceptions and a quarterback rating of 148.4.
In total, New England racked up 487 yards of total offense against a struggling Chicago defense. Chicago finished the game with 384 yards of total offense.
“We got outplayed and outcoached in all 3 phases,” said head coach Marc Trestman after the game, via Kevin Fishbain of ChicagoFootball.com.
It is not going to get any easier for Chicago moving forward, and quarterback Jay Cutler said after the game that his team soon has to make a decision about its future, per John Mullin of CSNChicago.com.
We’re going to take some time off, obviously, with the bye week, come in tomorrow and watch some film…And collectively, as a whole, we have to decide how we want to end this year and how we want to do in this second half. Do we want to just pack it in and hover around .500, maybe a little bit below? Or do we want to use the talent in that locker room to try and make a run for this?
The Bears will now have two weeks to sit on this loss before heading to Green Bay in Week 10 to take on the Packers on Sunday Night Football.
Following a win Week 8 in London against the Atlanta Falcons, the Detroit Lions sit firmly atop the NFC North standings with the Packers set to take on the New Orleans Saints on Sunday Night Football. If the Bears have any hopes of making the playoffs this season, they are going to need to not only start winning football games, but they are going to need to root for some Detroit and Green Bay losses in the coming weeks.
Here are our report card grades for each Bears unit following their Week 8 loss to the New England Patriots.
