"The Bears' defense is good enough to win a Super Bowl if they were paired with even an above-average offense." — PFT Commenter

Take Slip·Nov 18, 2020

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The Bears' defense is good enough to win a Super Bowl if they were paired with even an above-average offense.

The defense is good. I think the Bears' defense, it's still... Oh, it's very good. It's a defense that you could definitely win a Super Bowl with if you had an above-average offense. But [the Bears] don't.

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While the 2020 Bears defense was top-tier, the offense was never even 'above-average', making this difficult to prove. However, the 2020 Bucs won with a balanced attack, and the Bears' D was statistically comparable to elite units.

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The Bears will be chasing the mistake of drafting Mitch Trubisky for a decade

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Theo Epstein will be the next MLB Commissioner

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