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Sony Michel touchdown run After the Indianapolis Colts came close to the New
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Josh Gordon added to the team¡¯s seven-point lead cornerback Jonathan Jones and
running back Sony Michel teamed up to increase New England¡¯s lead even
more.First, New England¡¯s defense made a big play: a pass breakup by Jason
McCourty allowed Jonathan Jones to pick off Andrew Luck and return the pick 28
yards to the Colts 34-yard line:On the very next play, first-round rookie
running back Sony Michel found the end zone:The 34-yard run is the rookie¡¯s
second touchdown of his career and caps another impressive performance. Overall,
Michel has carried the football 16 times for 92 yards and that one score. Losing
consecutive games for the first time exposed several flaws with the Chicago
Bears.Although coach Matt Nagy sees no easy fix after a 38-31 loss to the New
England Patriots, he believes solutions are within reach for problems with
Mitchell Trubisky's passing, a fading pass rush, and a feeble running
attack."Numbers don't matter, we've got to get the
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said Monday at Halas Hall. "I've also said that adversity strikes and you've got
to be able to be prepared to have little peaks and valleys."We're in a valley
right now. So we've got to get out of the valley."The Bears (3-3) had 18 sacks
in their first four games and led the league. They've had one for the past two
games since linebacker Khalil Mack suffered an ankle injury.Nagy said every pass
rusher has to find ways to pressure the quarterback, not just Mack."We say it on
the offensive line ¡ª you have to win your one-on-one battle," Nagy said.
"Defense? Same thing. You get home."It doesn't mean you always get a sack or you
always tip the ball, but you're affecting the quarterback and you're breaking
down that green grass and he sees color when he throws. And that's what we need
more of."Nagy isn't sure where Mack is health-wise in terms of percentage, but
acknowledged Mack would have been rushing the passer more than he did Sunday if
he were closer to 100 percent.In each of the past two games, Mack had one
tackle, and Sunday the Bears put Mack in pass coverage much of the time. They'll
have to keep gauging his availability."We all know that he's not 100
percent
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trust him, he trusts us and then we go ahead with the action plan and that's
what we ended up doing. It's not an easy decision or process."Offensively,
quarterback Mitchell Trubisky's wildness problems surfaced again against New
England.Even worse were Trubisky's decisions to throw into coverage twice in the
end zone. The Patriots dropped both easy interceptions, and he had two
interceptions in the game."He played a game better than most people think he
played," Nagy said. "There were some throws now that he missed in the later part
of the game ¡ª see, early in the game, there are some throws that look like he
missed them, but he missed them because the guy isn't open and it's more of a
throwaway."Trubisky went 26 for 50 for 333 yards with two touchdowns. At
halftime
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should have been picked off, but the ball was dropped, and one of those came on
a tackle-eligible play when Nagy said Trubisky should have known better than to
pass."You can't do that, right?" Nagy said. "He knows that... That's a critical
error that you cannot do. There's no excuses for it. He knows it."The running
game has been elusive to pin down for the Bears, who in the past counted this as
a strong asset.Jordan Howard has 311 yards on 90 attempts. As a team, the Bears
have 182 attempts for 784 yards, but Trubisky has accounted for 245 yards
largely through scrambles."The easy answer is that,
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of going through this deal, the run game, trying to figure out the identity of
who we are, has taken a little bit longer than the pass game," Nagy said."And so
what we're going to do ¡ª that's why we're coaches ¡ª is figure out who we are,
what we do best and we talk about it."Howard is averaging 3.5 yards a carry and
has had only one game with more than 15 carries. He averaged 17.1 carries a game
his first two seasons."It doesn't mean that you change the pass-run ratio or
anything like that, but when you do
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better," Nagy said.