{"id":36085,"date":"2022-06-04T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/burning-questions-for-chicago-bears-ahead-of-2022-season\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T05:59:08","slug":"burning-questions-for-chicago-bears-ahead-of-2022-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/burning-questions-for-chicago-bears-ahead-of-2022-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning questions for Chicago Bears ahead of 2022 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_508125\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><noscript><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-508125\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-508125 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2022\/05\/Bears-Kyler-Gordon-Jaquan-Brisker-e1653576446496.png?resize=1000%2C612&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"612\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-508125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA Today Sports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lost in the concerns on offense, the Bears are experiencing an overhaul on defense under Eberflus.  Not only is Chicago transitioning to a 4-3 defense, but the roster has undergone changes this offseason.  The Bears parted ways with several veterans &#8211; including DE Khalil Mack, DT Akiem Hicks, NT Eddie Goldman, LB Danny Trevathan and DT Bilal Nichols &#8211; and added Justin Jones to serve as their three-technique. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the Bears have some big names returning this season, including DE Robert Quinn, CB Jaylon Johnson and LB Roquan Smith, who&#8217;s in line for a contract extension before the start of the season.  DT Khyiris Tonga projects as the starting nose tackle on defense, where Eberflus explained his plans for a defensive line rotation using eight to nine linemen to keep fresh legs on the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The good news is the Bears shored up an important need in the secondary during the draft with the second-round additions of CB Kyler Gordon and S Jaquan Brisker.  Both Gordon and Brisker figure to contribute as starters as rookies opposite Johnson and S Eddie Jackson, where the hope is the defense&#8217;s biggest weakness will get a boost with young talent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today Sports Lost in the concerns on offense, the Bears are experiencing an overhaul on defense under Eberflus. Not only is Chicago transitioning to a 4-3 defense, but the roster has undergone changes this offseason. The Bears parted ways with several veterans &#8211; including DE Khalil Mack, DT Akiem Hicks, NT Eddie Goldman, LB &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/burning-questions-for-chicago-bears-ahead-of-2022-season\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burning questions for Chicago Bears ahead of 2022 season<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[819,17124,2371,7028,13082,17125,17126,3772,17127,13083,13079,17128],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2022\/05\/18288383.jpg?w=1024&h=576&crop=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}