The Bears entered this game with a lot of doubt surrounding their offense. Today they showed some baby steps of improvement. This isn’t a situation where slow incremental improvement will get the job done.
Smothering start
The Bears only allowed one first down to the Chargers in the first five drives. This is still a great-looking defense, they just can’t always carry the team on their own when the offense doesn’t give them time to rest.
So we got a little something in the run game?
The Chargers have been one of the worst run defenses over the past few weeks, but throughout the first half, they were able to stuff Bears at the line repeatedly.