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Minutes after the Bears blew yet another fourth-quarter lead Sunday to lose to the Browns, coach Matt Eberflus bemoaned the state of his offense. It seemed like the Bears were always in second-and-long or third-and-long against a nasty Browns defensive front.
“We’re always behind,” he said.
A run game that felt stuck all day became even more consequential in the Bears’ short-yardage blunders, from the eight-snap, one-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter to failures on fourth-and-one and third-and-one in the fourth quarter.