Breaking news : Whatever Happened to the 2024 Chicago Bears?

The Bears are a rudderless ship, floating along until they can be given new direction from another coaching staff at season’s end.

Even if interim coach Thomas Brown succeeds in providing direction while winning the confidence of GM Ryan Poles and president Kevin Warren going forward, chances are good they’ll get new direction as a staff reforms under him in the offseason. And they’ll go a different direction entirely if the coach comes from outside the current situation.

In some ways this was true because the base of the team is always the offensive and defensive lines and they never did enough to fortify those before addressing other areas, such as wide receiver. No less a successful, experienced head coach than Bill Belichick pointed out several times this year how Poles built the team the wrong way and didn’t pay enough attention to the offensive line. Ironically, this was viewed as Poles strength as a former lineman himself.

The Bears GM and former coach Matt Eberflus made their major errors in their offseason assessments before 2024 free agency and the draft. All came back to destroy what was already built

Here’s where it all went wrong for the 2024 Bears. In some cases, it couldn’t be prevented and time/experience can correct the problem, like with their QB. It was a matter of timing. In others, there’s a lot to overcome in the offseason for whoever remains as head coach, and possibly even GM.