three matters that stood out to Eberflus in Week eight loss

(2) While the Bears were capable of run the ball properly all season, they endured to warfare protecting the run Sunday in Dallas.

Despite beginning jogging again Ezekiel Elliott sitting out with a knee injury, the Cowboys rushed for 2 hundred yards and 4 touchdowns on 29 carries, a median of 6.nine yards consistent with attempt. Running again Tony Pollard ran for 131 yards and 3 TDs on 14 carries.

“We`ve were given to enhance the run protection,” Eberflus stated of a unit that ranks thirty first withinside the NFL, yielding a median of 156.zero yards consistent with game.

Pollard had TD runs of 18, 7 and fifty four yards. His fifty four-yarder gave the Cowboys a cushty 49-29 lead early withinside the fourth sector after the Bears had closed to inside 42-29 on Fields’ 10-backyard TD byskip to Cole Kmet.

The Bears protection struggled mightily on 1/3 down, allowing the Cowboys to transform nine-of-eleven opportunities (81.eight percent), and withinside the crimson zone, yielding touchdowns on four-of-four Dallas possessions inside-the-20.

“We’ve were given to enhance situational football, 1/3 down and crimson zone,” Eberflus stated. “But it is approximately developing. It’s approximately developing and getting higher with every role after which developing into that HITS principle. It begins offevolved glaringly with the hustle after which the depth to play your run gaps has to enhance. That, to me, is what it genuinely is, and that is basics and method of the educate and the players. We must enhance on that.

“We’re taking the ball away quite suitable, however situationally we have got were given to enhance some. There’s suitable and terrible in there; we have got simply were given to make certain we maintain enhancing the terrible.”