{"id":44805,"date":"2025-08-04T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44805\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:57:08","slug":"ben-johnson-offense-on-sunday-was-sloppier-than-we-hoped-it-would-be-at-this-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44805\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson: Offense on Sunday was sloppier than we hoped it would be at this point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bears practiced at Soldier Field on Sunday with fans in the stands and head coach Ben Johnson said he was treating the session like a preseason game. <\/p>\n<p>That approach extended to having the team stay at a hotel on Saturday night as they would for an actual game, but it did not result in a strong performance for the team\u2019s offense. The defense got the better of them in much of the 11-on-11 work and reports from the session said that the offense had issues with getting plays off before taking delay of game penalties or timeouts at the line of scrimmage. <\/p>\n<p>Bears runinng back D\u2019Andre Swift was also dropped for a safety at one point, which head coach Ben Johnson called \u201cinexcusable\u201d as part of a negative overall assessment of the offense. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was sloppy, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobears.com\/news\/chicago-bears-training-camp-report-family-fest-sunday-aug-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sloppier than we were hoping<\/a> we would be at this point,\u201d Johnson said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cWe had a couple really good practices over the last two and then took us a little while to get going and hear the pads clicking. I thought toward the end we picked it up and it got pretty competitive there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been blunt with <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/ben-johnson-luther-burden-is-a-little-bit-behind-right-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">individual offensive players<\/a> as well this summer and Chicago will be hoping that his candid assessments of what\u2019s wrong lead to improvements once they flip from simulated games to actual ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bears practiced at Soldier Field on Sunday with fans in the stands and head coach Ben Johnson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-44805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}