The Chicago Bears are off to an 0-2 start and there aren't many reasons for optimism heading into a Week 3 showdown with the Dallas Cowboys.
We're seeing many of the same struggles from the offense that we saw in 2024, and quarterback Caleb Williams has not looked good, even with the offensive guru that his head coach Ben Johnson is.
The Bears' supposed strength, the defense, has had several issues over two games, also, and is coming off a contest in which it gave up 52 points to the Detroit Lions.
Now, we have Johnson admitting that things aren't up to snuff on the practice field.
"Our practice habits are yet to reflect a championship caliber team," Johnson told reporters on Wednesday, per ESPN's Courtney Cronin..
He went on to elaborate on what he's talking about.
"We should be going to the football, finishing hard," Johnson added. "We talk about it all the time with the offensive players that our fundamentals, our finish and our technique, they need to show up in walk through, they need to show up on the practice field.
"That's how it shows up on game day," Johnson added. Simple things of how do we properly block? How do we catch the ball? How do we block after the catch? Ball security and things like that. It's the little things that you learn in youth league football that even at this level, they make a huge difference."
Now, nobody pegged the Bears as a championship-caliber team before the season, but the fact that the head coach is not happy with how his team is practicing is troubling, to say the least.
It's also ad indictment on Johnson and the coaching staff, and the players that general manager Ryan Poles has brought in.
The last thing Bears fans needed was another negative, so this admission by Johnson certainly isn't going to help the team's outlook moving forward.
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