One of the Achilles' heels of this Chicago Bears team is the struggles the edge rushers are having getting to the quarterback for sacks, and the stats are brutal to look at.
This season, the Bears' edge rushers have 6.5 sacks and 14 quarterback hits through seven games. Montez Sweat leads the way with three sacks and six quarterback hits, but doesn't even lead the team in sacks. That honor goes to defensive tackle Gervon Dexter at 3.5.
ESPN analytics guy Seth Walder made the situation worse by showing everyone on X a chart of NFL edge rushers, with double-team rate plus chip rate on the X-axis and pass-rush win rate on the Y-axis.