Most teams in the NFL are just okay. The league thrives on how much year-over-year parity there is, but that also means that, for the most part, everyone's kinda meh. Outside of the usual handful of modern Super Bowl contenders, every season's B-tier of teams is always a mystery. In any given season, a dozen teams can make a surprising run.
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The Bears are not one of those teams. The Bears are, perhaps, one of the two or three worst teams in football. They've lost six straight, fired both their head coach and offensive coordinator, and somehow look worse now? Caleb Williams is doing just enough to keep everyone's faith for the future, but it's hanging on by a thread right now; getting sacked 45 times a game certainly doesn't help.
But just how bad are the Bears this year? Specifically, just how bad is their offense? Reader, the answer is: bad. But this isn't just some "the Bears are the 24th best passing offense in football" level of bad. That's amateur stuff. The Bears are setting *the standard* for historically bad offense, and Chicago beat writer Kevin Fishbain found the perfect example to showcase their impressive feat of ineptitude.
The Bears just played their worst half of football in the last two decades
The Bears' 4 yards is their fewest in a first half this millennium, per @TruMediaSports.
— Kevin Fishbain (@kfishbain) December 8, 2024
Four yards. Four! Four single yards. In two quarters of football, a team full of professional football players could only gain four yards. Over a 30 minute span, a team full of professional football players only advanced the ball 12 feet. Next time you think you're not doing enough at your job, remember that the Chicago Bears needed the second half in order to get to five (5) yards of offense.
This is honestly kind of funny? Who cares anymore. At this point in the season, feats like this keep things interesting. I don't see the Jets being this bad! Jacksonville had more than four yards in the first half! A bunch of teams pride themselves on being bad, but they don't want to put in the work. The Bears know that their fans appreciate a real effort, and nothing's more real than having the best offensive personnel they've had in almost a decade and still being this terrible. Kevin Warren was right: their brand really is the envy of the entire league.