Rozner: Chicago Bears' Super Bowl train comes off tracks

Might want to slow your Super Bowl roll.

At least for a week, anyway.

Coming off a bye week and facing a team with Brock Osweiler — not Ryan Tannehill — in Miami, the Chicago Bears were simply atrocious Sunday in a 31-28 loss that dropped them to 3-2.

“Someone's gotta win and someone's gotta lose,” said head coach Matt Nagy, channeling John Fox. “Unless you have a tie.”

They blew a 21-10 lead late in the third quarter, thanks to the poor decision-making of Mitch Trubisky, who was headed to the Hall of Fame after taking apart the 31st-ranked Tampa defense two weeks ago, when his receivers were wide open on nearly every play.

Not that Miami has a great defense. The Dolphins came in ranked 22nd, but their pre-snap looks confused Trubisky all day.

He was already having a typically uneven Trubisky day when the Bears appeared to go up 28-13 in the fourth quarter, but Trey Burton was called for a questionable pick, negating a Tarik Cohen touchdown.

What followed was the play of the day, the play that cost the Bears a football game, the play that cost them a chance to be 4-1 heading into a game against New England at home next week.

Trubisky dropped back and with plenty of time forced a ball into double coverage that wasn't close to a completion, easily picked off and taking points off the board.

“I saw an interception and that's what I saw,” Nagy said. “They played coverage there and the kid made a good play. And that's that.”

Trubisky, to his credit, did not duck responsibility.

“I forced one in the red zone when I shouldn't have,” Trubisky said. “I put my team in a bad position and I shouldn't have thrown that pass.”

The Dolphins then marched down the field against a gassed Bears defense struggling in the Miami heat, and the legend Osweiler converted on the touchdown and 2-point conversion to tie the game at 21-21.

The Bears took a 28-21 lead with 3:17 left in the game, but the Bears' poor tackling — which has been a second-half problem in close games this season — showed up again on the very next play, when a short pass went 75 yards for the tying score.

So it was on Trubisky again to win the game, which is not where the Bears want to be.

As much as they prop him up publicly, they are keeping his throws as simple as possible because he continues to force long throws into double coverage.

The Bears don't want Trubisky to have to win games. They're just asking him not to lose games, and in a league this bad it's not a terrible formula.

Even Rex Grossman got to a Super Bowl with the Bears under similar conditions, relying on defense, and the NFL has gotten much worse since then.

But with Khalil Mack suffering from an ankle injury Sunday, the vaunted Bears defense registered no sacks against the statue that is Osweiler.

Maybe it was the heat, or the late news of a QB switch, but the Bears were lifeless most of the game and Nagy's play-calling was questionable at best — zero points in the first half off a bye week — and at times extremely conservative because of how he views Trubisky right now.

The Bears took a knee at the end of regulation, ran the ball in overtime and tried to win the game with a long field goal in OT.

This is where they are with Trubisky, who might have to wait on the gold jacket for a few weeks.

Said Nagy of Trubisky's day, “Great. I thought he played well.”

The Bears just have to let their defense play, hope Mack can get healthy, and hope Trubisky can stop jumping all over the place in the pocket, set his feet and make the occasional play.

It wasn't all bad for Trubisky on Sunday. He made some very good throws and some very bad throws, but the time for development is over. The Bears need him to make better decisions.

And they need it now.