The Chicago Bears had two full weeks to prepare for their Week 14 rematch against the Detroit Lions coming out of their Week 13 bye and will need to show they can learn from their mistakes.

The team's offense will be under the most pressure on Sunday to prove they have managed to fix their errors and found a successful way to create an effective game plan.

The unit has struggled mightily over their last five quarters in action despite narrowly finding away to come out with a victory in Week 12 against the Minnesota Vikings. However, the win wasn't enough to overshadow the faults in the offensive production.

The Bears offense has struggled all season long to create explosive plays and executing such plays on a consistent basis. In fact, the inconsistencies as a whole has been the main cause for all of the current issues on the entire team.

Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy has been given 13 days to put together a competent game plan for Week 14 after putting together an abysmal one the last time the Bears were on the field.

The most frustrating part is that the problem isn't that the Bears offense can't execute on the explosive plays, they just aren’t getting the opportunity to even attempt them. For example, look at quarterback Justin Fields' passing chart from Week 12's win against the Vikings. 

Field only attempted two passes over 20+ in the game and the only completion went for 36-yards to DJ Moore, setting up the game winning field goal on the team's final drive. 

According to Next Gen Stats, Fields has thrown five touchdowns, one interception, and has a 112.5 passer rating on deep passes in 2023. His passer rating on deep passes is the seventh best in the entire league among qualified quarterbacks. Yet, for some reason, Getsy's play-calling continues to hamper Fields' potential to show that improvements are being made.

With five games left to be played, the Bears need to fully open up the offense over the final stretch in order to see what they have in all their players. Now isn't the time to have cute play-calling and Bears head coach Matt Eberflus understands the sense of urgency the unit needs to have going into Sunday's game.

"The sense of urgency should always be there," Eberflus said on Wednesday. "When the execution is there you want to keep doing that and when it's not, you have to have a sense of urgency. It's about being optimistic and being positive but also being real and that's not just with the players. That's with the coaches too and what do we need to improve on."

The last time the Bears played the Lions back in Week 11, Fields saw a few more opportunities downfield but also managed to use his legs as a factor as well. However, the offense became stagnant in the final quarter resulting in drives that ended with two field goals, a punt after five plays, and a forced fumble leading to a safety on the team's final drive. The Bears ultimately blew a 26-14 lead and lost the game 31-26.

It's no secret that the way for the Bears to play effective football is by stretching the ball downfield while coming behind it with the league's 3rd-ranked rushing offense. Another issue haunting the unit has been coming away with points off of defensive turnovers. In each of the last two games, the Bears have forced four takeaways on defense but the offense only scored 13 points off those eight takeaways.

"It's about how do we generate explosive plays," Eberflus said. "You score touchdowns by getting explosives, we all know that. But, how do we create advantageous positions for our offense through motions and through formations to create those advantages, those angles that we want to have so we can pop those runs? In the passing game, we're gonna take some more shots down the field to be able to create those explosive plays. And those things are there, we just got to take advantage of those expectations."

A lot of pressure is riding on the Bears' offense on Sunday to prove they can figure it out as a collective unit. If not, conversations will need to be made to determine who should be calling the plays during the rest of the season.

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