Should the Chicago Bears go after Kareem Hunt in the off season to improve their offense? Or Should the Bears stay put and continue with the Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohern combo? Kareem Hunt was cut weeks ago by the Chiefs after a video surfaced of him involved with a woman in little “bam zoom to the moon.”

Except in the Honeymooners, the mild threat Ralph makes in every episode, is only a threat. Kareem Hunt sent a woman to the ground with a shove caught on video. I guess that would not technically count as to the moon. However, he followed that up with a judo kick to her when she was on the ground. Allegedly she was intoxicated and provoked the man, Kareem Hunt. Throw in some racial slurs into the equation like every good fight should have and you’ve got a nice Saturday night fight beyond the Thunderdome. Hunt has an anger management problem. No criminal charges will be attached to this situation. Hunt will get to play in the NFL again. Matt Nagy of the Bears coached Kareem Hunt in his first year, when he was not an angry elf running the ball. Matt Nagy runs the same style offense that Hunt is familiar with. Should the Bears stay put with the thunder lightning combo of Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen? Or seek a double threat of running back combo with Hunt and Cohen?

In 2016, Jordan Howard was in beast mode running the football between the tackles. He averaged 5.2 yards for carry and tallying up 1313 yards. In 2017, the yards per average slipped to 4.1 yards per carry. His yards went down 1122. In 2017, he played on a very bad Bears offensive team. They had Mike Glennon followed by a rookie quarterback with horrible receivers. Jordan Howard was the only game in town. In those two years, Jordan Howard was one of the best backs in the league. Running the football he can do, but catching balls out of the back field is not the man’s cup of tea. In 2018, Matt Nagy took over and put in a whole new offense. An offense which is very pass happy. An offense that is very spread out. An offense where multiple play makers get chances to carry the ball.  Leaving Jordan Howard to see his numbers across the board dwindle. Except in touchdowns. He had nine of those, tied his total in 2016. A power back. A work horse that needs steady carries throughout the game to be effective. A work horse that does not catch balls in the passing game that much, unless a quarterback’s only option.

Kareem Hunt in 2017, came in the league and set things on fire as he galloped for 1327 yards on the ground. He average 4.9 yards on the ground during his first season. He ran in 8 touchdowns as well. In 2018, before they found about the woman he beat up in the hotel hallway where he lives.

In 11 games he had 824 yards on the ground. His rushing average dropped only some to 4.6 yards per carry. He had seven touchdowns on the ground. Kareem Hunt has been in the same style of offense his whole career, which has not been long. Besides running the ball, Kareem Hunt helps out the passing game. He caught 53 balls in 2017 for 455 yards with three receiving touchdowns. In the 11 games this year for the Chiefs, he caught 26 balls for 378 yards and 7 touchdowns.

Techmo bowl video game numbers is what Kareem Hunt puts up in Matt Nagy’s style of offense. Add the human joystick they call Tarik Cohen and the Bears would have a combo a double threat that would take the league by storm. Defensive coordinators would stay up all night walking the ledge coming up with no plans in stopping this kind of razzle dazzle offense. It would be like the two headed monster the New Orleans Saints have right now. How many broken legs and tweaked hamstrings would defenders get trying to chase down either son of a bitch? Then throw in the crazy runs with the wide receivers. All the miss direction runs and  with a quarterback that can run. Let’s not forget the passing game will only get better. You would be taking your offense to the Saints and Chiefs, but beyond that. Wake up its a bad idea.

I love the idea of a thunder and lightning combo with Cohen and Jordan. It should of been like how the Giants  used that combo years ago. Ron Dayne, former Badger, would bulldoze players throughout the game and wear out defenses. Then throw in the lightning speed back in Tiki Barber and defenses would  be gasping for air trying to chase down a speedster after dealing with a wrecking ball. This combo would work vice versa with lightning rather than thunder. It was a combo that wrecked havoc on defenders. The Giants back then ran a different offense than the Bears do today. That’s probably all they had. This system would not work with the Bears because it’s an offense with multiple weapons. Running backs that only run between the tackles and that are not a threat in passing game are dinosaurs in this style of offense. That’s why you seen Jordan Howard’s numbers go down this year. Jordan Howard is a running back that needs many carries each game. They do not offer enough carries for Jordan Howard to be effective in Matt Nagy’s offense.

I think both running backs, Kareem Hunt and Jordan Howard, are a bad idea to have either one of them on your roster next season. Kareem Hunts fits perfectly. Jordan Howard is like a square peg trying to fit in a round hole. Kareem Hunt you can probably get cheap because of the baggage that comes with the player. Jordan Howard, you can probably get something good in return in the trade market.

I like the idea with a back like Kareem Hunt and Tarik Cohen and seeing what they can do. This Bears team has  great things going on with them right now that you do not want to ruin. They have a great locker room with high character players with a great coaching staff. Kareem Hunt may have been a good team guy. But you do not want his baggage to disrupt the locker room they presently have. The Bears had enough of Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall. We do not need a Pittsburgh Steeler type of locker room as well. Do not kill the chemistry.

Running backs grow on trees. You can draft a running back like Kareem Hunt in the third round. Trade Howard, get something for him. You can pick up a power running back on the cheap in free agency or late rounds in the draft if you need a specialist  to get that one yard bruiser style. Do not let any of your key defenders walk away. Resigning them is most important. Throwing your money at Robbie Gould is a great idea. Kind of need a kicker. Or if you see somebody to make that defense even better or improve depth on your roster, this is the direction the Bears should go. You can find late round backs to really make that offense even sweeter later rounds instead of bringing in the wife beaters. Let’s not be the Bengals of the past.