MINNEAPOLIS – The Bears have lost eight straight games, following a 30-12 loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night.

The weight of that fact hung over the postgame locker room, as the Bears tried to process another dreadful game experience.

They’ve had coaches fired. They’ve lost in heartbreaking fashion. And they’ve also had their hats handed to them a number of times, including the last two weeks. It all ends the same way.

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There isn’t much more to say about a lack of execution. It’s not good enough, and it’s clear that all this losing has taken its toll.

DJ Moore has been on some bad teams. The star receiver said he has never been through something like this before.

The frustration was high and palpable in U.S. Bank Stadium’s visitor’s locker room.

“Nobody wants to blow a gasket,” Moore said, “but somebody’s gonna blow a gasket soon.”

He also admitted that getting that getting loud won’t make a difference if the play isn’t better.

“You can be as loud as you want,” Moore said. “If you don’t go out there and execute and win, it ain’t gonna change.”

That’s the realization for a group that cares deeply about winning and playing well on big stages. It’s a group trying to salvage any level of positivity from the rest of a lost season.

That’s getting harder to find as the Bears routinely struggle in the biggest moments, can’t start fast and don’t have the playmaking ability to catch up against the good teams on their late-season schedule.

“It seems like we’ll do some good things and then this thing goes wrong or that thing goes wrong or we get behind the sticks,” running back D’Andre Swift said. “There are a lot of little mistakes that we’ve got to eliminate. … That’s the theme of the year.”

The inability to learn from them is wearing on Cole Kmet. The tight end always has a positive, team-friendly spin when it talks to the media, but admitted that this period of time has been hard.

“It’s brutal,” Kmet said. “The past four weeks have been tough for me mentally. I’m working through it and trying to come in every day and living by my process. You question yourself at times like this. Am I doing what I need to do? Am I doing the right stuff day to day? Am I being the right person and going to work the right way? …I think I’m doing the right things, but the results haven’t been there for that. It has been hard. It has been tough. I’ve been through some things since I’ve been here, but, mentally, it has been a lot.”

Kmet got rolling a bit during his meeting with the media and stated that everyone must do their job right or the whole team suffers.

Consistent execution has been lacking to the point that winning is really hard. The Bears failed on two fourth-and-short opportunities. They had a touchdown negated by failing to report as an eligible receiver. These are things that can’t happen while expecting to win.

The Bears are putting in tons of effort and getting nothing in return, which has been trying on everyone over the past few months of losing without respite.

“(The execution is) just not anywhere to the level that it needs to be,” Kmet said. “We’re on this crazy losing streak at this point and we haven’t executed well enough. The other teams have done better than what we have. And that’s why these outcomes have been what they’ve been.”