Bears, Trubisky inept on offense again in 4th straight loss

PHILADELPHIA >> The Bears’ stat sheet for most of the first half read like Chicago’s winter forecast.

Yards passing after the first quarter? Try minus-2.

Total yards in the quarter? Minus-1.

Don’t worry: Once Chicago

warmed up, the offense hit single digits: 9. As in total yards in the first half. Or one less than inept Mitchell Trubisky’s uniform number.

And on the scoreboard, a fat 0.

The Bears survived one of the worst offensive outputs in recent franchise history to gamely make a run at the Eagles in the second half. They trailed 19-0 before David Montgomery had a pair of 1-yard TD runs to make it a onepossession game in the fourth quarter.

The Eagles had enough on the final drive to hold on Sunday for a 22-14 victory, sending the Bears to their fourth straight loss.

“The score felt a lot worse than it was,” coach Matt Nagy said.

The late push in a game the Eagles tried to give away made Chicago seem more competitive than it actually was in a rematch of last season’s playoff game. The Bears lost that one on the famous double-doink field goal attempt that hit the upright and the crossbar. They lost this one on a double dose of offensive incompetence: Trubisky was only 10 of 21 for 125 yards and Montgomery topped the running game with a measly

40 yards.

The Bears seemingly started every drive down

10 yards before second or third down.

“We just couldn’t get going and it snowballed. One thing after the next,” Nagy said.

Nagy said he never considered making a QB change, and stuck with Trubisky through a string of sacks and incomplete passes. Trubisky was sacked three times.