2023 Season

NFL Power Rankings, Week 4: Bears hit rock bottom

The Chicago Bears have officially hit rock bottom in the latest ESPN NFL Power Rankings entering Week 4 of the 2023 season.

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2 years ago

September 26, 2023

Bryan Perez

NFL Power Rankings, Week 4: Bears hit rock bottom (2023 Season)

The Chicago Bears have finally reached rock bottom. At least, it doesn’t feel like things can get much worse, and in the latest 2023 NFL Power Rankings published by ESPN, they literally can’t.

The Bears rank 32nd — dead last — entering Week 4.

“There is plenty of blame to go around with the Bears” offense, which is performing worse than it did a year ago,” ESPN’s Courtney Cronin wrote. ‘Some receivers aren’t running routes the correct way, which has led to spacing issues that affect the timing of when throws should be delivered. Chicago’s playcalling has put

Sure, it’s still early in the 2023 season, and there have been some crazy team turnarounds in recent years. The Detroit Lions did it as recently as last season, they began the year 1-6 and nearly made the 2022 playoffs.

But this Chicago Bears team feels different. They aren’t competitive, the Lions were. They have no identity on either side of the ball, the Lions did. This Bears team feels like a club lacking the leadership required to overcome this adversity.

The Bears face the Denver Broncos in Week 4, which will put a ribbon on the season’s first quarter. Football purists tend to reserve sweeping statements until a bundle of games has been played, and the Broncos offer Chicago an opponent that’s at least beatable.

If the Chicago Bears look overmatched against a team that just surrendered a near-record 70 points in Week 3, it’ll be time to get those 2024 mock drafts fired up.