10 ideas after the Chicago Bears continued to have issues stopping the run in a 20-12 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday at MetLife Stadium.
1. There won’t be an NFL staff extra corresponding to the Bears than the Giants.
Both made huge overhauls within the offseason, hiring a brand new common supervisor, head coach and workers. Both have ongoing points at quarterback, with the Giants seemingly nearer to an expiration date. Daniel Jones is within the remaining yr of his rookie contract, drafted two years forward of Justin Fields. Both have well-documented points on the offensive line and badly want upgrades (emphasis on the plural) at vast receiver.
Put a Bears fan and a Giants fan in the identical room and ask about their staff wants, and the lists will sound comparable and may be in the identical order. They are indistinguishable in a number of methods, particularly in that each have run the ball nicely and have struggled to cease the run.
The Giants can have a neater time teaching corrections this week coming off a victory that lifts them to 3-1, a shocking begin for a staff that performed so poorly final yr. But make no mistake about it, this can be a badly flawed staff very like the Bears. It can be a tough week for the Giants, who had 10 gamers depart the sport with accidents and who may be scrambling for a quarterback earlier than departing Thursday for London, the place they’ll play the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
It needs to be a tough week for the Bears as nicely, as a few of their early points are reappearing — and never simply the shortcoming to throw the ball. ESPN’s Matt Hasselbeck in contrast the Bears to a service academy offense Sunday morning. That doesn’t imply they’re patriotic. It means they will run the ball however not a lot else.
The Giants ran over the Bears protection, piling up 262 dashing yards, essentially the most the Bears have allowed for the reason that Eagles ran for 289 in a 54-11 drubbing on Dec. 22, 2013, in Philadelphia. Sunday’s whole was the fourth-most dashing yards the Bears have allowed for the reason that begin of the 1977 season, and it’s no surprise they rank final within the NFL towards the run, permitting 183.3 yards per sport.
The pattern measurement stays small — one thing you retain listening to concerning the staff’s passing statistics — however that places the Bears on tempo to give up 3,116 dashing yards this season. Only two groups in league historical past have been trampled for extra. The 1978 Buffalo Bills allowed 3,228 dashing yards and the 1948 Brooklyn Dodgers gave up 3,146.
The downside with Sunday’s displaying is the Bears had been run over by a staff that had subsequent to no intention of throwing the ball. It’s not like they didn’t anticipate the Giants to serve up an enormous dose of Saquon Barkley (31 rushes, 146 yards) whereas mixing in some runs for fleet-footed Daniel Jones (six rushes, 68 yards, two touchdowns).
The Giants receiver corps makes the Bears group regarded polished. Giants wideouts mixed for 3 receptions for 25 yards. And tight ends Daniel Bellinger and Tanner Hudson received’t be mistaken for Jeremy Shockey, Mark Bavaro or some other Giants tight finish of yesteryear.
So the Bears knew they’d get an enormous dose of the Giants dashing assault and nonetheless allowed 6 yards per carry. Jones wound up leaving the sport late within the third quarter with a left ankle harm, and his backup, Tyrod Taylor, was put in concussion protocol after a helmet-to-helmet hit from cornerback Kyler Gordon. Jones got here again in as a receiver and the Giants ran wildcat performs with Barkley taking the snaps.
“Obviously in the first half we needed to do a better job of stopping the run with the quarterback,” Bears coach Matt Eberflus mentioned. “I thought we did a good job of adjusting to that in the second half. Saquon ended up popping some runs on us, and they ran the ball too effectively for us to win the game.”
When the opponent drops 262 dashing yards on you, it’s much more than getting hit right here and there with some quarterback bootlegs — although Jones is a magician in relation to executing a play faux. He’s nearly as good because it will get at promoting the handoff. Taylor added 30 dashing yards throughout his quick stint, so the Giants received 98 from their quarterbacks.
“We kind of knew after the first drive what their game plan was going to be — to load the box up a little bit,” Barkley mentioned in explaining why Jones and Taylor may get free. “If they are going to do that, they don’t have enough guys out there. We did a great job of, even though they loaded the box, the O-line was leaning on them, making the right calls, creating movement. I was able to make some of the right reads, put a little pressure on the defense.”
Giants middle Jon Feliciano mentioned he had no thought till returning to the locker room that they rolled up 262 yards on the bottom, the franchise’s most since a 301-yard efficiency in an extra time victory over the Carolina Panthers on Dec. 21, 2008.
“The (Bears) did a good job,” Feliciano mentioned. “They rolled in a Cover-6 look. They were bringing that safety down. They went to diamond sometimes and they blitzed the safety. They were doing all they could to stop it. We had a special guy (Barkley) behind us.”
Let’s put this in perspective. The Bears protection has allowed 733 dashing yards in 4 video games. In 2018, the Bears allowed 1,280 dashing yards in 16 video games. If there’s an overarching level — moreover that the Giants and Bears each have a number of enhancing to do — it’s that whereas figuring out how the Bears are going to repair the offense within the offseason (vast receiver, offensive line, quarterback?), don’t overlook a protection that has been overwhelmed badly up entrance. This is a complete overhaul that’s to start with phases, and the primary month of the season reinforces that.
Eberflus talked final week about the necessity to get the move rush going. He is aware of in addition to anybody you need to earn the chance to get after the quarterback, and also you do this by stopping the run. In this example, the Giants had no intention to throw the ball and nonetheless ran wild.
2. Justin Fields was higher within the loss than he has been this season, however the bar is so ridiculously low that we’re not speaking about rather a lot.
He accomplished 11 of twenty-two passes for 174 yards, together with a 56-yard deep shot to Darnell Mooney. Fields had good safety and let it rip downfield with Mooney going towards single protection. Good play. Good throw.
What did the Bears do 5 performs afterward third-and-3 from the Giants 5-yard line? Handed off to Khalil Herbert for a run into the center of New York’s line. A subject aim adopted.
Fields had two 18-yard passes to Mooney and a 23-yard move to tight finish Trevon Wesco. That was just about it for downfield throws. Cole Kmet had a pleasant 15-yard achieve, a lot of which was the tight finish being bodily, and Herbert gained 24 yards on a display move. Other than that, Fields was fast to tug the ball down and scramble, and a Giants move rush that had three sacks by three video games totaled six Sunday.
Still, this counts as progress. The Bears reached the crimson zone thrice however couldn’t get ultimately zone, and in the end that was the distinction. It’s difficult to throw the ball within the crimson zone and much more tough within the low crimson zone (inside the ten). When the Bears can’t do this, it will likely be robust to attain touchdowns.
Fields is as much as 34 completions on the season and is finishing 50.7% of his makes an attempt. For reference, getting into the Sunday evening sport seven quarterbacks had 100 or extra completions.
“Who said the passing game wasn’t working?” Fields mentioned after the sport when requested why the staff has had a lot success working the ball however can’t get something executed constantly by the air.
The good reply to Fields is it could take him rather a lot much less time to compile a listing of those that consider the Bears passing sport is working. Nothing about it has been good and it has been exhausting to look at because the quarterback, offensive line and ability positions all have to be higher.
“I thought it improved,” Matt Eberflus mentioned when requested concerning the passing sport. “We were playing a blitz team, so I thought he handled that relatively well. I love the way he was throwing the ball down the field. That’s going to open up more things for us.”
The Giants needed to pin Fields within the pocket — rather a lot simpler to plan than it’s to execute — and make him throw the ball. He received out on the perimeters and damage them some. The Bears offense transformed 5 of 15 third downs, and three of them had been Fields scrambles.
“Oh, man, he’s an athlete,” mentioned Giants defensive finish Azeez Ojulari, whose strip-sack of Fields within the second quarter led to a New York landing. “You keep him in the pocket and make him play quarterback, try to make him throw the ball, you can get pressure on him.”
Getting Mooney 94 yards was an enormous plus and one thing the offense must intention for on a weekly foundation. Kmet received three targets and I’m unsure that constitutes progress. It’s being variety to name the passing sport disjointed, regardless of what number of methods the coaches attempt to specific confidence in it.
“Numbers don’t matter,” Fields mentioned. “As long as we win, like I said, that’s all I care about.”
That’s honest and I don’t doubt for a second that Fields is a team-first man who prioritizes successful over all else. It’s additionally honest to say the 2-2 Bears received’t win many video games — definitely not towards groups higher than the Giants — except the passing sport turns into much more constant and productive.
“I see positivity there in the passing game,” Eberflus mentioned. “I think we ran the ball relatively well today, but I do see progression during practice and I saw progress today. That’s a defense that has a lot of pressure and we still got the ball down the field, which was a positive to me.”
3. Interesting resolution by Matt Eberflus to punt with the Bears trailing 20-12 on fourth-and-2 at their 45-yard line with 3:15 remaining.
Maybe it could have turned out to be the appropriate transfer if Velus Jones hadn’t muffed a punt return, however Eberflus was placing extra religion in a run protection that had been roughed up over his offense.
Trenton Gill’s punt regarded somewhat ugly however he received a nifty roll and wound up with a 52-yarder that pinned the Giants on their 3-yard line.
“I think it was a great decision, the punt and pin,” Eberflus mentioned. “We had three timeouts, we bang the first two right there. Then when Velus gets the punt there, we were going to have one timeout above two minutes at midfield. So that way we were going to flip the field right there. That gives us a chance to go score that touchdown and go for the 2-point conversion to tie the game.”
Flip the sphere? The Bears had been on their 45-yard line earlier than the punt. You need to commend the protection for forcing a fast three-and-out, however it feels somewhat odd saying the Bears did something nicely defending the run there. My interpretation is Eberflus tell us he felt higher about stopping the Giants’ effort to burn day without work the clock — relying first on an excellent punt and protection — to then get the ball again close to the place the offense was when it wanted 2 yards for a primary down.
4. The Bears had letdowns in all three phases, with Velus Jones’ muff eliminating any actual likelihood to tie the sport.
No, I didn’t think about the loopy lateral celebration on the ultimate play a legit likelihood. On the muff, it regarded like Giants punter Jamie Gillan outkicked his protection, simply as he did earlier within the sport when Jones had a 19-yard return. Jones had room alongside the New York sideline however by no means secured the ball.
“The wind was carrying the ball a lot, especially in that direction,” Jones mentioned. “You just have to beat the ball to the spot. I felt like I didn’t do that. I was still moving with it instead of beating the ball to the spot.”
The first rule for returners is to safe the ball, and Jones wasn’t ready to try this in his NFL debut after lacking the primary three video games with a lingering hamstring harm. He didn’t play on offense Sunday and solely dealt with returns, an space the place the Bears have been searching for a spark with the offense struggling.
“We had great blocking,” Matt Eberflus mentioned. “There was a wide space for us to go to return that ball.”
He’s proper about that, and the miscue took away from an in any other case stable effort for the particular groups. Rookie Josh Blackwell compelled a fumble by Giants punt returner Richie James. Blackwell was in a position to recuperate it as nicely, netting the Bears 45 yards of subject place and in the end leading to a subject aim.
Jones was extra of a kickoff returner throughout his lengthy school profession and didn’t return punts till final season, when he had 18 for Tennessee. He has the power to be a risk on punts however is way more skilled as a kickoff returner, and it was gusty in a stadium the place the wind is understood to swirl.
5. It regarded just like the Bears had been making a scenario during which they must select between Sam Mustipher and Teven Jenkins as a starter.
I don’t know that they must do this anytime quickly after left guard Cody Whitehair exited with a proper knee harm. The Bears are typically sluggish to offer harm updates throughout video games, however they shortly introduced Whitehair was uncertain to return and he left the locker room afterward with a big brace on his proper leg, getting a cart trip to the buses.
If Whitehair misses time, Lucas Patrick would keep at left guard, Mustipher at middle and Jenkins at proper guard. The motive it regarded like Mustipher and Jenkins had been doubtlessly competing for a beginning job is the Bears focused Patrick in free company with a two-year, $8 million contract to be a starter. So together with his proper thumb healed, Patrick goes to be within the lineup and it’s solely a matter of the place.
Jenkins has been settling in as an inside lineman with every passing week of expertise, and it was establishing a choice for the coaches of getting Mustipher at middle and Patrick at proper guard or Patrick at middle and Jenkins at proper guard. Making it an actual resolution is that Mustipher has performed fairly nicely. The Bears weren’t going to rotate facilities and Mustipher is certainly finest at middle, not guard.
This was Whitehair’s 99th regular-season begin, and he has missed solely two video games, each in 2020 when he had a calf harm. He is anticipated to bear an MRI on Monday, when the Bears will get a greater understanding of the character of his harm.
6. Michael Badgley misplaced a kicking competitors Tuesday, received one Friday and made the one kicks that mattered Sunday.
In every week during which the veteran kicker racked up some frequent flier miles, Badgley made 4 subject targets — hitting from 29, 22, 40 and 35 yards — to account for the Bears’ solely factors as a fill-in for Cairo Santos, who missed the sport for private causes.
It was solely the fourth time in Badgley’s profession he made 4 subject targets in a sport and the third time he was 4-for-4, a pleasant ending to a whirlwind week and a efficiency that ought to assist him get appears elsewhere with the Bears hopeful Santos can be obtainable quickly.
The Chiefs reached out to Badgley final Monday after kicker Matt Ammendola faltered whereas changing injured mainstay Harrison Butker. Badgley, who lives in Huntington Beach, Calif., was on a flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City later that day for a tryout Tuesday. The Chiefs wound up selecting the opposite competitor, Matthew Wright, so Badgley flew again to Los Angeles.
He was at residence round midday Pacific time Thursday when his agent, Brian McLaughlin, known as to let him know the Bears needed him for a tryout the following day. By 5:30 p.m. he was on a flight to O’Hare, getting in after midnight Central time. Badgley outperformed Brian Johnson and Josh Lambo, and the Bears signed him to the observe squad Saturday morning earlier than elevating him to the game-day roster.
“These are the situations you want to happen,” Badgley mentioned, not referring to Santos’ scenario. “You show up, you want to win the job and be able to go kick on Sundays.”
The Bears introduced in a protracted snapper and holder for the tryout, so it wasn’t till pregame warm-ups that Badgley labored with Patrick Scales and rookie holder Trenton Gill. That’s the lifetime of a free-agent kicker, ready for a telephone name and hoping for a chance.
What made your entire journey somewhat higher for Badgley is that he was raised in Summit, N.J., about 20 miles from the stadium. He was a Giants fan rising up and had pals on the sport rooting for him in a brand new uniform, one he won’t put on once more.
7. Defensive sort out Armon Watts is absolutely trying ahead to Sunday’s assembly with the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Watts spent all of coaching camp and the preseason working with the primary staff in Minnesota earlier than the Vikings made the 26-year-old a part of their cuts to a 53-man roster on the finish of August.
Watts had one sack and three tackles within the preseason and figured he could be within the Vikings beginning lineup in Week 1. The Vikings drafted him within the sixth spherical from Arkansas in 2019, and he developed beneath the previous teaching workers as a stable rotational participant, reaching a peak final season when he performed in all 17 video games (9 begins) with 5 sacks, 33 quarterback pressures and two compelled fumbles to go together with 46 tackles.
Watts performed defensive sort out in Mike Zimmer’s scheme and was moved to finish within the 3-4 scheme beneath new coach Kevin O’Connell. The Vikings wound up buying and selling with the Houston Texans on cutdown day to accumulate Ross Blacklock to exchange Watts.
“I am pretty sure everyone in the state (of Minnesota) was surprised,” Watts mentioned. “It undoubtedly was a letdown, however it’s a part of the sport. I needed to adapt quick coming over right here to Chicago. You know, all the pieces occurs for a motive, so I’m excited to be right here.
“I’m not blind. If I’m with the second or third team maybe you see it coming. But it hit hard for me, especially being there going on four years (and) producing like I did last year. I am here with the Bears now, I am still in the NFC North and I am excited.”
The Bears have used Watts within the inside rotation, and the scheme in all probability performs to his ability set. He has some inside dashing means and enjoying the run might be not his robust level — and has been a difficulty for the group as an entire. In my unofficial snap depend (the MetLife Stadium press field is excessive above the sphere, making it difficult), I had Watts for a season-high 26 snaps.
With the Giants not throwing a lot, it made pressuring the quarterback difficult. Watts has eight tackles by 4 video games and now gears as much as face his former staff.
“That is probably the one I’ve got marked off on my calendar,” he mentioned. “Is it circled? Most definitely.”
8. The first NFL all-star sport was performed in 1939 at Wrigley Field because the NFL All-Stars performed the Giants.
It was an experimental sport for the younger league, and the Pro Bowl was born in 1951 with the sport being held on the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the primary 22 years. It then moved round to completely different cities earlier than Aloha Stadium in Honolulu started internet hosting the sport in 1980. With prices an element, it got here again to the mainland in 2015 earlier than another journey to Hawaii after which stops in Orlando, Fla., and Las Vegas.
The sport — a sort out soccer sport — is not any extra because the NFL introduced final week it’s changing it with the Pro Bowl Games after this season. There can be expertise competitions in the course of the week and a sequence of 7-on-7 video games to conclude the week.
It’s the tip of an period for a sport that during the last a number of a long time not often resembled what you’re accustomed to in an NFL product. Many veteran gamers would again out with legit and typically not-so-legitimate accidents, and it grew to become more and more difficult for the league to placed on a sport that didn’t draw criticism from viewers.
The growth is a win for the gamers, who now not need to danger harm in a sport that doesn’t pay them an entire lot. But I used to be curious how Bears linebacker Roquan Smith, who was a legit Pro Bowl candidate the final couple of seasons regardless of not being chosen, felt concerning the sport being canceled.
“That was actually cool,” Smith mentioned. “A lot of guys may go out there (now). I’ve never been out there, but a lot of guys just look forward to being out there and being able to just enjoy each other’s company and not so much trying to take other guys out (in the game) but all about having fun. So I think it’s great. No more risking injuries.”
Former Bears offensive lineman Kyle Long was added to the Pro Bowl as an alternate thrice, and people journeys had been among the most memorable of his profession.
“I remember the first time we played against the Packers,” Long mentioned. “T.J. Lang and Josh Sitton walked as much as me after the sport and I had a lot happening as a younger participant within the league, and once they first walked as much as me, I keep in mind T.J. going, ‘You’re going to go throughout the pond someday.’ I had no thought what he was speaking about. At yr’s finish, there was an harm, I used to be an alternate and I used to be in a position to go as a rookie and it was a number of enjoyable to go.
“Showing up in Hawaii as a younger participant and attending to see legends from each conferences, either side of the ball, with their households and girlfriends and getting to hang around with them in a noncompetitive setting all week was actually priceless. These are the most effective in our sport and I really feel just like the Pro Bowl has been diluted a bit with individuals who don’t present as much as the sport, those that don’t compete within the sport.
“When I was playing, guys were going hard. J.J. Watt is trying to win MVP, he’s trying to get that pickup truck at the end of the game. These guys have things to play for. But I understand now with a longer season the willingness for players to say, ‘No, we don’t want to do this anymore,’ and fans saying, ‘No, we don’t see the product that you’re showing anymore.’”
Long kicked across the subject on the Green Light Podcast final week together with his brother Chris Long, discussing completely different concepts that may very well be included sooner or later. The league has mentioned there can be dodgeball, a finest catch competitors and quarterback drills, together with a “thread the needle” competitors.
“One idea I had was to get the helmets off the guys, get them in Pro Bowl jerseys and have them be doing ‘American Gladiator’-type stuff,” Kyle Long mentioned. “Patrick Mahomes taking pictures a tennis ball gun at linebackers making an attempt to run throughout a courtroom. Or have Aaron Donald do King of the Hill with an offensive lineman. Stuff like that. Find a strategy to make it entertaining, and the choices are limitless with the expertise and the personalities we’ve got on this NFL.
“People need to see offensive linemen do issues which are uncharacteristic of themselves. So in the event you had a 7-on-7 draft solely consisting of massive guys and then you definately get an actual quarterback again there, you might have a enjoyable product on the sphere. You may have Lane Johnson working routes towards Myles Garrett. Are you freaking kidding me? You need to see how athletic these guys are? You need to see the definition of a expertise competitors, put these two guys on the market. Lane Johnson hasn’t given up a sack since center faculty. If you set him on the market, individuals don’t discover him as a result of he doesn’t hand over sacks. He’s the most effective participant on the soccer subject. That is a few stuff I might watch.
“None of us are strangers to the names of Pro Bowlers on our teams. The history of this league is what makes it so special and to match the history with our current talent … getting to be invited to the Pro Bowl, knowing you are one of the best guys in the universe at what you do is important. And I feel like it is a cherry on top for a season for guys like, let’s say Roquan Smith, who is not going to be playing in the Super Bowl this year. But he is balling in obscurity and it’s an opportunity to get more eyeballs and more recognition for guys like that or a guy like Khalil Herbert. That’s just the Bears. There are guys like that who do not get celebrated enough. I’d love to see it.”
9. The Giants had been one of many groups that handed on Justin Fields within the 2021 draft as they traded the No. 11 choose the Bears used to pick out him.
Quarterbacks went with the primary three picks — Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson and Trey Lance — and the Giants might be thought-about certainly one of three “quarterback-needy” groups that handed on Fields after that. The Carolina Panthers used the eighth choose on cornerback Jaycee Horn and the Denver Broncos selected cornerback Patrick Surtain II with the ninth choice. The Panthers nonetheless want a quarterback, the Broncos acquired Russell Wilson and the Giants determine to be within the QB market after this season. They declined the fifth-year possibility in Daniel Jones’ contract, and he can be a free agent in March.
If you’re searching for a winner within the Bears-Giants commerce, glad looking out. I’m unsure one exists. Fields’ struggles are well-documented. The Giants used the No. 20 choose in 2021 that they received from the Bears on vast receiver Kadarius Toney, and he has produced little or no, lacking Sunday’s sport with a hamstring harm. The Giants used a fifth-round choose from the Bears in 2021 to commerce up and select cornerback Aaron Robinson, who performed somewhat as a rookie and returned Sunday after lacking time to have his appendix eliminated. He exited the sport early with a knee harm.
The Giants had two picks from the Bears this yr, utilizing a first-round selection (No. 7) on proper sort out Evan Neal and a fourth-round choose on tight finish Daniel Bellinger. Neal has been up and down — he was a lot better towards the Bears than he was in Week 3 towards the Dallas Cowboys — and Bellinger had a team-high three receptions for 23 yards.
Maybe one facet will emerge as a transparent winner of the commerce within the subsequent couple of years, however it could be disingenuous for both facet to assert victory at this level. It may be simpler for the Giants to nudge forward just because they’ve extra choices. The Bears are leaning on Fields alone.
10. This is the start of a difficult slate for the Bears with 4 of their 5 October video games on the highway.
The final time the Bears had 4 highway video games in a five-game span was in 2015, the primary season for coach John Fox. However, a bye week was sprinkled in the course of that stretch, and this yr’s bye doesn’t come till Week 14, the ultimate week for byes. In 2014, Marc Trestman’s remaining season, the Bears had been on the highway for 4 video games in a five-game stretch with out the good thing about a bye.
The again finish of the schedule is variety to Matt Eberflus’ staff in relation to journey. Four of the ultimate 5 video games are at Soldier Field because the Bears journey solely as soon as after returning to MetLife Stadium for a Nov. 27 sport towards the New York Jets.
10a. I don’t know if the Bears critically pursued St. Rita and Northern Illinois product Kenny Golladay in free company in 2021. Some reported the Bears had been within the combine for the previous Detroit Lions star, and he finally landed with the Giants for 4 years and $72 million. What’s the previous saying? Sometimes the most effective strikes are those you don’t make. In 17 video games with the Giants, Golladay has 39 receptions for 543 yards and no touchdowns. He parlayed consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in Detroit in 2018 and 2019 into an enormous payday. I requested a veteran personnel man what the difficulty is.
“He was injured that final season in Detroit (2020) and missed a lot of that year and then missed time when he got to New York last year,” the personnel man mentioned. “He’s not the kind of athlete that is going to get by not playing and not practicing, not in my mind. The rust stays on him. He doesn’t have elite speed. He’s one of those bigger receivers that would make contested catches downfield. You’ve got a quarterback downgrade (Matthew Stafford in Detroit to Daniel Jones in New York) and now there’s a new regime in place and they’re probably looking at Golladay and wondering, ‘What the hell?’”
10b. Through 4 video games it positive appears like Eddie Jackson has rolled again the clock three or 4 seasons. The Bears free security made a nifty center-fielder play to run beneath a deep shot by Tyrod Taylor supposed for Darius Slayton, going a protracted strategy to haul in his third interception of the season. The final time a Bears defender had three picks by 4 video games was when Kyle Fuller had three within the first three video games of his 2014 rookie season. Jackson is tied with Minkah Fitzpatrick of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Marcus Williams of the Baltimore Ravens for second within the NFL with three picks, one behind Jordan Poyer of the Buffalo Bills.
10c. The fumble that occurred when Justin Fields received stripped can be a training level for the Bears. It regarded like Cody Whitehair may have made an effort to fall on the ball, and extra egregious was vast receiver Equanimeous St. Brown not reacting and looking out on the ball that Giants defensive finish Kayvon Thibodeaux fell on.
10d. The Bears’ Week 5 sport in Minnesota breaks a 15-year streak of late-season journeys to the Twin Cities, with seven of these video games performed after Christmas. Here are the dates of the final 16 journeys to Minneapolis:
- 2021: Jan. 9, 2022
- 2020: Dec. 20
- 2019: Dec. 29
- 2018: Dec. 30
- 2017: Dec. 31
- 2016: Jan. 1, 2017
- 2015: Dec. 20
- 2014: Dec. 28
- 2013: Dec. 1
- 2012: Dec. 9
- 2011: Jan. 1, 2012
- 2010: Dec. 20
- 2009: Nov. 29
- 2008: Nov. 30
- 2007: Dec. 17
- 2006: Sept. 24
10e. The Vikings opened as seven-point favorites over the Bears at Westgate SuperEbook in Las Vegas for Sunday’s sport at U.S. Bank Stadium.
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