BREAKING: The Bears’ Starting Offensive Line May Not Be Ready For Week 1
Sports Talk Chicago
Sports Talk Chicago
5.0 • 832 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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On today’s show, host Jon Zaghloul breaks down the injuries sustained by the Bears’ offensive line, and explains what this could mean for Justin Fields early on in 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bears Offensive Line is beat up right now. |
| 0:02.9 | Sports Talk, Chicago. |
| 0:04.3 | Here for Johns and Gloo. |
| 0:05.0 | Appreciate all of you tuning in. |
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| 0:15.3 | It's kind of a nightmare situation for the Bears at this point, at this time before the season begins. |
| 0:23.9 | I just said a couple of weeks ago in the first preseason game in which Justin Fields and |
| 0:28.3 | really the entire offense exceeded, that it was the offensive line that proved to be integral |
| 0:33.5 | in the Bears starting out strong. Fields went three went three of three, perfect passer rating, |
| 0:38.0 | two screen passes that barely passed the line of scrimmage. They went all the way for touchdowns. |
| 0:43.4 | All the credit for that game and for that result in those first two drives really goes to the |
| 0:48.7 | offensive line and their ability to block all the way downfield. We talked about last year how the bears couldn't even run a screen, couldn't even |
| 0:58.1 | successfully do it, maybe get five yards here and there, maybe lose yardage. |
| 1:01.9 | And this year, albeit in the preseason, they've shown that they've improved the trenches, |
| 1:07.1 | which is something Brian pulls pledged to do since day one. |
| 1:10.1 | Credit to him. |
| 1:11.6 | But as we sit here today, we're about two weeks before week one for the Bears. A lot of |
| 1:16.7 | offensive line members are hurt, our nursing injuries, are trying to make a comeback, and it |
| 1:22.5 | actually concerns me, considering how integral this is for the bear's success offensively in |
| 1:28.7 | 2023. Bears top pick Darnell Wright, quote, limped off with an apparent ankle injury and |
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