Luke Getsy's Offense Spinning Its Wheels

Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy saw plenty to appreciate about what Justin Fields accomplished in Sunday's 20-17 loss against the Cleveland Browns.

What he didn't see, and hasn't seen every other game since October began, is steady point production.

"I thought he did a lot of really good things," Getsy said Thursday at Halas Hall. "There were some really cool plays. You think about the keeper throw on the corners, extended plays that he made, even the touchdown throw was an incredible play."

Fields spun out of the clutches of Myles Garrett, ran left and hit Cole Kmet on the move at the sideline in the end zone for a touchdown.

"I think there was a lot of really good things," Getsy said. "Yeah, there's a couple things that we'd all like to have back. On a whole, I thought he did a really good job. He took care of the football and then, you know, a couple opportunities like we said, maybe we need to help explain it better to him or whatever or just him make the play. He's capable of that and he's done that. On the whole, he did his job pretty good and took care of the football and that's what we ask him to do."

They ask him to do one other thing, though.

That's score points. It's rather important.

The Bears offense hasn't put more than 16 points on the board every other week since their 40-20 Oct. 5 win over Washington. That neat spin-and-throw to Kmet was their only TD last week.

They had no touchdowns two games before that in a 12-10 win at Minnesota. Two weeks prior with Tyson Bagent at quarterback, they had one touchdown in a 16-13 win over Carolina. Two games before that they lost 30-13 at Los Angeles to the Chargers and had two touchdowns but scored the second one late in the game and missed the PAT. Prior to that they had 13 in the loss to Minnesota when Fields was injured.

"I think where we want to go, we know that we have to execute better, period," Getsy said. "More consistently is probably the better way to say it. I think week-to-week—one week I come in here (interview room), and we're saying, 'We executed well.' And one week I come in here and I say, 'We didn't execute well.' And last week we had a really good challenge, right? This (Browns) defense is real. They've been real all year long and like you guys said in here, in that building they're really tough.

"And when you have those challenges and when they're in your face ... they're on the attack you have to be able to man-up and execute at a high level. Like coach talks about, it's fundamentals, technique and you're stressed out by really good players, you've got to be on-point with your fundamentals and technique and we weren't good enough last week from that point."

Getsy continued to cite fundamentals.

"I think it's just that," he said. "It's just taking it and keeping it simple to your fundamentals, your technique, your alignment, your assignment, key and technique and if we keep it simple like that and stay focused and not let what's happening in the moment change what our responsibility is, we’ll be fine. And I think that's part of the growth is playing together."

He thinks it's all going to eventually mesh the way they want, but while he's saying this it's three games until the season ends.

"It's a chemistry thing," Getsy said. "Guys are starting to get really comfortable with each other. And so you're starting to see those things pop up that are really cool. That's what we’re looking for. We're looking for that promise. We're looking for that growth.

"And if we can hit this consistently, I think we're just gonna take off and make it what everybody wants it to look like."

If they don't start scoring touchdowns consistently soon, it could become a problem to solve for the next offensive coordinator or coaching staff or quarterback.

"I love Luke," coach Matt Eberflus said. "He’s a great leader in the room. Like I said, I’ll evaluate everything at the end. We’re constantly evaluating things every single day, so today after practice, like normal, we’ll meet, we’ll talk about this play, that play, ‘Hey, we like this one; let’s try to do it this way,’ or, ‘Let’s make this correction there,’ so it’s constant communication during the course of the week and then into the game.”

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