Cody Parkey could possibly train to kick Soldier Field this week

The Detroit Lions' Bears offense gave a crucial statement for the second half of the season which would now be a disappointment if the Bears did not reach the playoffs. Not so much because of the missed playoffs themselves, but because missing a fire after two sets of wins over three wins will mean some bad defeats.

Or so-called "bad" because of high expectations above the ground. But the Bears face a remaining schedule with some dark corners.

The Bears did not beat a team with a .500 record. No thought about bears; they can only play anyone who shows up. But that puts the remaining seven games in the playoffs under a cloud of legitimate doubt, leaving the Bears with proof of membership in the tournament that begins in January.

The schedule has three A-List games: two against Minnesota, who have won four of their last five games and goes to Soldier Field Sunday after a week off; and one against Rams, the team that scored the most goals in the NFC.

Three games are against the lowest – the Lions, the New York Giants and the San Francisco 49ers. The problems are as follows: 1) all three games are on the road and 2) these teams will beat someone in the last seven weeks.

And the seventh of the remaining games is against the Green Bay Packers, who lost all four games in 2018 on the road but have a quarter that has not lost to the Bears in Chicago since 2010.

The tie breakers are probably missing from the division, with Green Bay and Minnesota sharing equal rights. But winning the division seemed self-evident, as it does now, in 2012, when the Lovie Smith Bears had an elite defense and showed up at 8-3.

Run the redux game

The concern over the Bears' inability to run for football may seem shocking or unfair to an attack that leads a team that is about to set a franchise brand record.

But regardless of the 10 teams that have won six or more this season, the Bears, Patriots, Saints and Texans are the only ones not to be in the top 15 on average. Houston and New Orleans, however, are in eleventh place for speed triage, and Tom Brady in New England is also tied for third with 12 touchdowns.

The bottom line here is that if the Bears are hoping for a place in the NFL elite, it's up to them to fix that weakness in an offense without much.

The biggest problem is whether the Bears can solve this problem. In other words, they may not be able, in the parameters of the offense, to be designed and operated by Matt Nagy. He has a No. 1 back who needs to wear to build a game, but he is a coach who does not handle his attack with a featured back.

Nagy did not blame Jordan Howard, the offensive line, coaches or others. It should not be either, because the problem does not really concern any of them and all.

With a team of five backstroke players and three tight ends in Detroit, the result was the lowest total in the race (54 yards) and the average (2.5 yards per race) of the season. carry).

But the question is more of a return (Howard). This is the group of half-men (leaving the offensive line out of this point intentionally), none of which will likely give Nagy the identity or the consequent production he wants for this element of his offense.

First of all, no one can see the back near the workload that is apparently needed to "lather Howard". Nagy does not lather anyone, and until a back appears that can mimic the microwave and warm up a hurry up, the rushing Bears are blurry.

Using the model that Nagy refers to the most, Kareem Hunt has 20 assists in just seven out of 26 games as a chef in Kansas City, only once in a 2018 season when the Chiefs are 9-1.

Race racing is simply not part of Nagy's offensive DNA, nor is it a dominant philosophy, even among the teams that have been the main practitioners. There is also no consistent formula for winning with an integrated pass-race offense.

The top three players in the NFL – Todd Gurley, Rams, 9-1; James Conner, Steelers, 6-2-1; Hunt, Chiefs, 9-1 – come from teams that participated in football this weekend with 46.6% of their snaps (Rams), 36.3% (Steelers) and 40.5% (Chiefs).

The Nagy Bears were in fact among the best at 45.1%, while the coach and staff have trouble getting an identity. But that includes almost 30% of the distance traveled by Mitchell Trubisky – this is not exactly the racing game's favorite identity.