At one point on Sunday, the Bears were given an 82.6 percent chance to defeat the Saints by ESPN’s win probability meter.
As the team began to collapse later in the game, though, it became apparent that that 17.4 percent chance of a defeat was going to take place. It did, and the Bears fell to 5-3 in a 26-23 overtime loss.
Both the Bears’ offense and defense had its moments of brilliance, but as has been the case for the entirety of the 2020 season, those flashes were often hidden in between spurts of ineptitude and overall incompetency.