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Leno's issue seems to be he loses focus.  Sunday he just starts drifting off the line of scrimmage on a screen pass like he doesn't even know what the damn play is.  Also had another offsides.  But I must say his pass blocking has improved the last few weeks.  Just had a hugely inconsistent year.

Whitehair had a huge miss that forced Trubisky to throw a crucial pick in the 4Q.  He's the best of the five.  Daniels is a decent pass blocker but not very good run blocker, in fact this has to be one of the worst run blocking teams in the NFL.

Lucas has surprised me with his pass blocking at RT.  He was beyond horrible in the PS at LT, but although awkward at time he stays with his man pretty well.  But again, not a people pusher.

Coward is the worst of the 5.  But it's his first year at guard after playing backup tackle in practice for a year. And before that he was a DE.  I know he sucks but its hard to blame him too much, but I'd absolutely go crazy if they put Bars in there these last 2 games.  RG could be the focus of one of our early picks next year.

If you watch other teams block.  Often times they will ignore one of the Bears d-lineman and focus on the other 3.  Often doubling 2 of the 3.  Then they slide off the double teams and go after the linebackers.  These are called combo blocks.  Running backs with decent vision and patience just wait for the hole to develop and usually get a few yards (like 3 or 4 compared to Bears 1).  More if Hicks is not in the lineup.    You just don't see the Bears O-line capable of doing this.  Is it talent or is it coaching?

And their current TEs, who I consider the 6th o-lineman don't provide much help either.  They miss so many blocks  And our top  3 guys that went on IR didn't do much better in that department.  TE could be the Bears first position choice in 2020.