Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, we're calling these progress reports. Gonna do one on the offense, gonna do one on the defense, gonna do one on the special teams. And offense to me is very simple. I rewatched the Raiders game from Sunday, and the one thing that becomes very clear watching Ben Johnson call a game is that his structure, his system, his scheme, whatever word you want to use, it relies upon the threat of running the ball right up the gut of the defense. And if you watch that Raiders game again, you see how many times he's booting Caleb out. And it wasn't working, and it's not working because nobody's buying the play fake over the middle. The pass rush was getting home because nobody was worried about the threat of the run game even on play action. They have got to, in this period of time before the commanders game, find something in the run game. And my instinct would be to give Kyle Mnungai a workload. That kind of runner, that kind of running style, wears out a defense. And I think if you gave him 20, 25 carries in a game, you would see, you would reap the benefits of that by the fourth quarter of these games. I don't know how he is with protections, and I don't know if he's ready to take on that kind of workload in a complicated offense. Swift clearly is okay with those things. Swift is just limited as a runner. Dynamic pass catcher, valuable player. I don't get all the Swift hate. Valuable player. But Mnungai is the kind of runner in this offense that I think Ben Johnson needs to rely upon more. That's number one. The tackles are a whole other problem. And I don't know who he's going to put where. I don't know who the right tackle is. I don't know who the left tackle is. I know Darnell Wright is one of them. But I think over the next 10 days, they've just got to choose. Because that performance last weekend is unacceptable at the professional level. You can't have two liabilities at tackle. They were supposed to have some depth there. We were talking all summer, like Braxton was coming along, Darnell was having a good summer, that they were going to have depth pieces at tackle. And they didn't have any depth on Sunday. So they've got to solve the tackle position. Listen, there's a chance that doesn't get solved until the spring. Because I do not think the starting tackles of the 2026 Chicago Bears are on the 2025 Chicago Bears. I think Darnell's one of them. I don't think the other one's there. So that's that. Caleb is my third progress report. It's coming along. It's way more positive than negative. The stats are starting to reflect that. The one thing Caleb's got to do is calm down the footwork. Almost all of his errant throws, his high throws, those flat routes that he dumps into the ground, they're almost all the result of footwork. And not, like, minor footwork problems, like tap dancing. Like, very obvious to the layperson that that's not how you should be positioning yourself to throw a football. He gets the footwork sorted. That's how the easy throws get executed. And he doesn't miss the hard throws. He misses the easy ones. And this is, by the way, exactly how Josh Allen was. Early in his career, Josh Allen would miss these layups. And you'd say, wow, all that ability. How does he miss that one? It's because of the mechanics. Caleb is young. The mechanics are what Ben's focused on. And I think you're going to see these things improve as the season goes on. I think Caleb's going to be a really good player. That's three. And number four is they've got to start to understand and recognize that Roma Dunzey is not a role player. Roma Dunzey is not one guy on a roster of pass catchers. Roma Dunzey is a star. And Roma Dunzey should be targeted ten times or more every game. You have to start throwing him the ball like he's Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase. You throw that guy ten passes a game, he's going to catch seven of them, and he's going to light the stats on fire. He is a super talent. And I think they've got to run packages designed to get him the ball. He's having a great start to the season. But right now he's just one of many reads. He needs to be first read ten times a game. So they've got to sort the rug game out. I think that means more Mnangai. They've got to sort their tackles out. I don't know if that's possible, but they have to come up with some kind of a plan. They can't be rotating guys in a game. They can't be switching sides in the second quarter. Caleb's got to get the footwork sorted. Because if he gets the footwork sorted, these layups are going to be easier for him to hit. And when you start hitting layups and start moving chains, that's how you have sustained drives. And the fourth thing, they have got to acknowledge that Rome is a star. And he needs to be targeted and approached like a star. Rome's the real deal. He's not just a guy. That's my four-part progress report, Bears offense.