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Bears' Zach Miller: We Have To Run The Ball Better Early In Games

(CBS) The Bears' preferred offensive formula didn't come to fruition in a 31-17 loss to the Cowboys on Sunday night. They passed the ball a whopping 49 times with backup quarterback Brian Hoyer and ran it just 15 times behind an offensive line seemingly best suited for run blocking.

The problem is two-fold, as tight end Zach Miller pointed out on the Boers and Bernstein Show on Monday. The Bears have fallen behind early, and they haven't run the ball well enough early to stay with it.

"Early on (this season), we carried a fullback," Miller said. "You go in that manner where you're going to be a well-balance football team. These first three weeks, it's been instances where we fall behind and you got to play catch-up and when you get into that mode, you end up throwing it 49 times in a game. It's one of those things where if we can consistently do it early, then that carries on throughout the entire game. I think it leads to how you start the football and if you're able to be balanced early on and kind of establish the running game, it can kind of carry on and you can use that to your advantage as far as setting up the rest of the football game. But we haven't been able to do that."

Listen to Miller's full interview below.

Zach Miller on the Boers and Bernstein Show

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