The Bears advanced to the NFC divisional playoff round with a 31-27 victory over the rival Green Bay Packers. The previous sentence is both factual and without context, failing to describe the insanity required to reach that result.

That’s gonna take a paragraph or two. The Bears erased the largest playoff deficit in franchise history, eliminating an 18-point halftime deficit with 25 fourth-quarter points to emerge with a win. Caleb Williams made some magic. A beleaguered defense stood tall at important times. And the special teams unit came through in the clutch.

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The performance earned the right to host the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night at Soldier Field. It had its flaw. No game that requires such a dramatic comeback is without them.

Some of those problems must get fixed before the Rams come to town. They’re a high scoring offense loaded with weapons, featuring an excellent coaching staff and some pass rushers who can make you pay. The Bears have survived with several close calls, but that’s not way to live at this stage of the playoffs.

Let’s take a look at three problems needing quick fixes heading into Sunday’s game:

The slow starts

We don’t need a statistical deep dive to see that the Bears are starting slow. One only need to take a look at the halftime scores of the past four games.

Packers 6, Bears 0. 49ers 28, Bears 21. Lions 13, Bears 0. Packers 21, Bears 3.

They’ve been shut out twice and scored three points once in that span. It’s particularly troubling offensively, where a team with quality skill players, good protection and a talented quarterback can’t sustain and finish drives in the early going.

The Bears cranked up late in all of them yet only won two, proof that furious comebacks can’t be counted on in an elimination tournament.

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They got away with it against Green Bay. That seems highly unlikely against the Rams.

“A lot of what we talked about today was that stalling and that the slow start was self-inflicted,” center Drew Dalman said in a Monday press conference. “There are a lot of things we can clean up, which is good, because it’s things we can still improve on going into every single week.”

We saw sideline frustration emerge from it, including quarterback Caleb Williams talking sternly to some of his offensive teammates.

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“Obviously, (there were) some frustrating moments, us just not doing our job, us not focusing on the details, those types of things that in these games you can’t have,” Williams said after Saturday’s game. “And so that was the frustrating part. That’s where my frustration and some of the early in the game kind of me being vocal was coming from, some of the anger and things like that. It wasn’t guys out there not giving effort. Just guys not being on — where they need to be at the right time. So, we’re going to go back and watch the film and fix it, but the great thing is we’re moving on to the next round so we have a shot to be able to do that.”

The slumping run game

This problem is directly tied to the first problem. The Bears are getting into negative game scripts down multiple scores, forced to throw a ton while trying to catch up. That’s not how Ben Johnson’s scheme operates best.

When the Bears were going super strong, they were rushing consistently well. It’s widely accepted that the run game really got going after a Week 5 bye, where they rushed for more than 135 yards in nine of 11 games. They haven’t reached that plateau in the last three games, topping out at 110 against the 49ers in Week 17.

It was less that 4.0 yards per carry in the last two games but at 5.0 against the 49ers. The Bears finished No. 3 overall this regular season with 4.9 yards per carry, with efficient running from D’Andre Swift and rookie Kyle Monangai.

The interior offensive line is elite, right tackle Darnell Wright’s a second-team All-Pro and presumptive left tackle Theo Bendet – Ozzy Trapilo is lost for the postseason with a torn patellar tendon – is best as a run blocker.

It’s about maintaining a lead or a close game, to allow the rushing attack to operate as it should. Dalman saw some flaws in last week’s effort that are correctable, though game situations dictate how committed Johnson can be in the run game.

“There was certainly some schematic stuff on our end that we didn’t execute properly,” Dalman said. “Me in particular, I definitely had a few things I need to clean up. And so, I think that kind of played into a little bit of it. Like (INAUDIBLE) the run game tends to wear on teams and so early on, they were a little more fresh, you don’t get quite as much movement on things and then over the course of the game, you kind of wear them down.

The takeaway drop

The Bears defense has plenty of star power currently being sapped by injuries. Jaylon Johnson (groin/core muscles), Kyler Gordon (groin) and linebacker Tremaine Edmunds (groin) aren’t quite their vintage selves since returning from IR stints. Linebacker T.J. Edwards (fractured fibula) is now out for the remainder of the postseason. All that adds up to a crew getting by on guile at this point. Their speed in the secondary is of particular issue right now, meaning the pass rush needs to get home on a regular basis.

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That’s a tough ask for a defensive line already without a few regulars, one that hasn’t been explosive most of the season. Montez Sweat has had his moments. Grady Jarrett’s starting to make an impact on the interior and end Austin Booker can be dangerous as a pass rusher but can be a little wild and incur penalties.

Taking the ball away is what the Bears are best at. They forced three fumbles against the Packers but didn’t recover any of them — Gervon Dexter Sr. let an easy recovery sail out of bounds — and the Bears missed those drive killers and easy offensive scoring opportunities. The Bears are 9-0 when they get at least two takeaways, though they haven’t reached that mark since Week 15 against the Browns. Chicago had multiple turnovers in nine of 12 games since that Browns game, with one in every game until the Packers playoff game. Reaching that benchmark again could set the Bears up to beat the Rams.

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