Fourth Quarter
2:00: Packers killing the clock but can’t get it done. It’s the only thing they haven’t gotten done this half. Bears ball.
2:54: Packers 38, Bears 20
Roschon Johnson with a 2-yard TD run as the Packers play back and let the Bears move it in short increments and eat up time with 14 plays to the score.
10:26: Another sack of Fields, Karl Brooks. Looking like the second-worst start to a Bears season.
The worst start had to be a 49-7 game in 2003 against San Francisco. But that was a road game.
12:53: Packers 38, Bears 14
Quay Walker completes the embarrassment for Fields as he picks him off and runs like a fullback through Bears tackles for a 42-yard TD. Officially, this is now the most embarrassing season opener at home for the Bears. A few more scores and maybe of all time. A Chase Claypool sighting. Fields threw high to him under heavy pressure for an incompletion.
13:30: Packers 31, Bears 14
Love drops the snap, throws 37 yards to set up a 4-yard TD pass to Doubs. In the process, the Bears lost Kyler Gordon to a hand injury and he won’t return. All this came after another third-and-long conversion for the Packers as Reed gets wide open with no rush and Love hits him for 18 to the Bears 41.
Third Quarter
0:54
With all the momentum, Travis Homer commits a facemask on the kick return and gives the Packers the ball at the Green Bay 39. Jones has left the game with a hamstring injury with a questionable return.
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:59: Packers 24, Bears 14
Fields to Mooney at the back corner of the end zone for the touchdown, wide open, then Khalil Herbert explodes through a huge opening for the two-point conversion. A six-play, 65-yard drive.
2:06
A big completion to Mooney and then Roschon Johnson gives the running game life with a first down and then an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty tacked on. The pass to Mooney with 2:06 left was the first Bears first down of the second half.
Braxton Jones with his second holding penalty wipes out a first down. Third penalty for him overall. He also allowed a sack. Then Rashan Gary beats Darnell Wright and sacks Fields. A penalty for offsides wiped out the sack, though.
All these weapons and Fields has targeted DJ Moore twice, Chase Claypool once (without a catch) and Darnell Mooney twice.
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3:22
The Bears forced a punt on Eddie Jackson’s big hit breaking up a first-down pass. The Bears get the ball back at their 20. Actually their own 35 after a facemasking penalty on the punt coverage by Green Bay.
5:30
And the inevitable Fields fumble. Forced by Kenny Clark on a scramble. Packers ball at the Bears 43.
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6:26
What has to be upsetting for Bears fans isn’t just losing but the overall failure to execute. Too many penalties on offense and play calls that are entirely predictable, like the wide receiver screens that haven’t worked. The Packers look sharp in their execution, few penalties or silly mistakes. The Bears look like a team that spent training camp “ramping up” rather than practicing or playing in preseason games.
A fourth-and-3 slant to running back Jones and no one covered him. A 35-yard touchdown and the Bears are down 24-6. A four-play, 42-yard drive in 1:39.
6:34
Love forced to scramble on third-and-12 and gets 9 to set up fourth-and-3 and Green Bay goes for it. But the Packers don’t like what they see and call a timeout at the Bears 34. A 14-point lead right now would look good for Green Bay. Not sure why they’re thinking first down. But when you’re up 11 and the Bears offense has done nothing, why not?
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8:05
Nixon gets tremendous blocking, looks for it to set up and the Bears do a poor job of covering the punt. The Packers will start their drive at the Bears 42 looking to turn this into a lopsided game.
9:22
Boos. A screen pass goes nowhere after Fields is sacked on first down by Colby Wooden. It’s a three-and-out and more boos. The HITS principle isn’t looking so good right now.
On third-and-goal at the 1, the sea parts and the Packers have a 75-yard TD drive thanks to Jones’ 1-yard run. The Bears are going to need to open up their offense now.
12:11
Tyrique Stevenson saves a touchdown on a beautifully set up screen for 51 yards to Jones. It was thrown all the way across the field off Love’s back foot but no one was there on the back side. Then Stevenson came all the way from the opposite side of the field to make the tackle.
The Packers come out running like in the first half and three Aaron Jones rushes up the middle and a run around left end have them at their own 42. This is how the Bears defensive line leaked early in the game.
Half
The Bears limited Green Bay to six first downs. The Bears outgained Green Bay 147 yards to 100. Ugly game as I had predicted. The Packers have a sound defense and anything the Bears are going to get on offense might depend on Fields’ running.
A 52-yard field goal by Anders Carlson ended the half but it could have been worse for the Bears after they let Love complete a third-and-10 pass for 28 yards to Jayden Reed. He was wide open against the zone and the Bears had no rush. The rush picked up later as Yannick Ngakoue killed the drive with his first Bears sack at the 34. The final march went 22 yards in six plays.
The Bears managed a 12-yard Khalil Herbert run to get out of a hole but their horizontal passing game is well scouted by the Packers and snuffed out. They punt and Packers have a scoring chance at their own 44. Green Bay knows now when that wide receiver screen is coming and how to stop it. They should know how. They run the same offense.
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2:28
The Bears’ coverage leaves no room for Love’s receivers and he tries to scramble on third down but gets only 2 yards and they punt, pinning the Bears back at the 6. Might have been one Taylor should have let go into the end zone.
3:59
A third-and-6 completion of 16 yards to Samori Toure showed the Bears hadn’t corrected their pass rush problems. No rush at all.
Bears go nowhere on the drive after Braxton Jones gets flagged for holding on a Field scramble. The best play was after they punted it and Josh Blackwell got downfield for an ankle tackle to stop Keisean Nixon at the Packers 30 on the return.
7:16
Bears get the ball back after a punt. Kyler Gordon knocked a third-and-2 pass away from Jayden Reed with a brilliant last-second break on the ball. Again the Packers hurt the Bears with the run on that short drive. A 68-yard punt into the end zone puts the Bears at their 20. The defensive front has been inconsistent, making big plays but giving up big chunks of yards on the ground. They’ve been the same way rushing the passer.
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8:50
Packers start at 24 and Tyrique Stevenson makes his second big hit, this on a 1-yard completion at the sidelines. Matt Eberflus was right about his ability to hit.
9:01: Packers 7, Bears 6
Cairo Santos hit a 29-yard field goal to end a 12-play, 52-yard drive over 6 1/2 minutes. Four straight plays went for over 10 yards at one point, with DJ Moore catching his first two Bears passes on the way for 25 yards. But Lukas Van Ness’ sack of Fields for a 7-yard loss back to the 11 took the starch out of the march.
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GENE CHAMBERLAINUPDATED:SEP 10, 2023 6:32 PM EDTORIGINAL:SEP 10, 2023
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2:00: Packers killing the clock but can’t get it done. It’s the only thing they haven’t gotten done this half. Bears ball.
2:54: Packers 38, Bears 20
Roschon Johnson with a 2-yard TD run as the Packers play back and let the Bears move it in short increments and eat up time with 14 plays to the score.
10:26: Another sack of Fields, Karl Brooks. Looking like the second-worst start to a Bears season.
The worst start had to be a 49-7 game in 2003 against San Francisco. But that was a road game.
12:53: Packers 38, Bears 14
Quay Walker completes the embarrassment for Fields as he picks him off and runs like a fullback through Bears tackles for a 42-yard TD. Officially, this is now the most embarrassing season opener at home for the Bears. A few more scores and maybe of all time. A Chase Claypool sighting. Fields threw high to him under heavy pressure for an incompletion.
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13:30: Packers 31, Bears 14
Love drops the snap, throws 37 yards to set up a 4-yard TD pass to Doubs. In the process, the Bears lost Kyler Gordon to a hand injury and he won’t return. All this came after another third-and-long conversion for the Packers as Reed gets wide open with no rush and Love hits him for 18 to the Bears 41.
Third Quarter
0:54
With all the momentum, Travis Homer commits a facemask on the kick return and gives the Packers the ball at the Green Bay 39. Jones has left the game with a hamstring injury with a questionable return.
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:59: Packers 24, Bears 14
Fields to Mooney at the back corner of the end zone for the touchdown, wide open, then Khalil Herbert explodes through a huge opening for the two-point conversion. A six-play, 65-yard drive.
2:06
A big completion to Mooney and then Roschon Johnson gives the running game life with a first down and then an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty tacked on. The pass to Mooney with 2:06 left was the first Bears first down of the second half.
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2:31
Braxton Jones with his second holding penalty wipes out a first down. Third penalty for him overall. He also allowed a sack. Then Rashan Gary beats Darnell Wright and sacks Fields. A penalty for offsides wiped out the sack, though.
All these weapons and Fields has targeted DJ Moore twice, Chase Claypool once (without a catch) and Darnell Mooney twice.
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3:22
The Bears forced a punt on Eddie Jackson’s big hit breaking up a first-down pass. The Bears get the ball back at their 20. Actually their own 35 after a facemasking penalty on the punt coverage by Green Bay.
5:30
And the inevitable Fields fumble. Forced by Kenny Clark on a scramble. Packers ball at the Bears 43.
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6:26
What has to be upsetting for Bears fans isn’t just losing but the overall failure to execute. Too many penalties on offense and play calls that are entirely predictable, like the wide receiver screens that haven’t worked. The Packers look sharp in their execution, few penalties or silly mistakes. The Bears look like a team that spent training camp “ramping up” rather than practicing or playing in preseason games.
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6:26
A fourth-and-3 slant to running back Jones and no one covered him. A 35-yard touchdown and the Bears are down 24-6. A four-play, 42-yard drive in 1:39.
6:34
Love forced to scramble on third-and-12 and gets 9 to set up fourth-and-3 and Green Bay goes for it. But the Packers don’t like what they see and call a timeout at the Bears 34. A 14-point lead right now would look good for Green Bay. Not sure why they’re thinking first down. But when you’re up 11 and the Bears offense has done nothing, why not?
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8:05
Nixon gets tremendous blocking, looks for it to set up and the Bears do a poor job of covering the punt. The Packers will start their drive at the Bears 42 looking to turn this into a lopsided game.
9:22
Boos. A screen pass goes nowhere after Fields is sacked on first down by Colby Wooden. It’s a three-and-out and more boos. The HITS principle isn’t looking so good right now.
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10:19: Packers 17, Bears 6
On third-and-goal at the 1, the sea parts and the Packers have a 75-yard TD drive thanks to Jones’ 1-yard run. The Bears are going to need to open up their offense now.
12:11
Tyrique Stevenson saves a touchdown on a beautifully set up screen for 51 yards to Jones. It was thrown all the way across the field off Love’s back foot but no one was there on the back side. Then Stevenson came all the way from the opposite side of the field to make the tackle.
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13:21
The Packers come out running like in the first half and three Aaron Jones rushes up the middle and a run around left end have them at their own 42. This is how the Bears defensive line leaked early in the game.
Half
The Bears limited Green Bay to six first downs. The Bears outgained Green Bay 147 yards to 100. Ugly game as I had predicted. The Packers have a sound defense and anything the Bears are going to get on offense might depend on Fields’ running.
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Second Quarter
:00: Green Bay 10, Bears 6
A 52-yard field goal by Anders Carlson ended the half but it could have been worse for the Bears after they let Love complete a third-and-10 pass for 28 yards to Jayden Reed. He was wide open against the zone and the Bears had no rush. The rush picked up later as Yannick Ngakoue killed the drive with his first Bears sack at the 34. The final march went 22 yards in six plays.
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1:19
The Bears managed a 12-yard Khalil Herbert run to get out of a hole but their horizontal passing game is well scouted by the Packers and snuffed out. They punt and Packers have a scoring chance at their own 44. Green Bay knows now when that wide receiver screen is coming and how to stop it. They should know how. They run the same offense.
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2:28
The Bears’ coverage leaves no room for Love’s receivers and he tries to scramble on third down but gets only 2 yards and they punt, pinning the Bears back at the 6. Might have been one Taylor should have let go into the end zone.
3:59
A third-and-6 completion of 16 yards to Samori Toure showed the Bears hadn’t corrected their pass rush problems. No rush at all.
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5:28
Bears go nowhere on the drive after Braxton Jones gets flagged for holding on a Field scramble. The best play was after they punted it and Josh Blackwell got downfield for an ankle tackle to stop Keisean Nixon at the Packers 30 on the return.
7:16
Bears get the ball back after a punt. Kyler Gordon knocked a third-and-2 pass away from Jayden Reed with a brilliant last-second break on the ball. Again the Packers hurt the Bears with the run on that short drive. A 68-yard punt into the end zone puts the Bears at their 20. The defensive front has been inconsistent, making big plays but giving up big chunks of yards on the ground. They’ve been the same way rushing the passer.
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8:50
Packers start at 24 and Tyrique Stevenson makes his second big hit, this on a 1-yard completion at the sidelines. Matt Eberflus was right about his ability to hit.
9:01: Packers 7, Bears 6
Cairo Santos hit a 29-yard field goal to end a 12-play, 52-yard drive over 6 1/2 minutes. Four straight plays went for over 10 yards at one point, with DJ Moore catching his first two Bears passes on the way for 25 yards. But Lukas Van Ness’ sack of Fields for a 7-yard loss back to the 11 took the starch out of the march.
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First Quarter
First quarter ended with the Bears gaining only 10 yards rushing.
1:00
Who says Yannick Ngakoue doesn’t defend the run. On second-and-10 he wiped out 247-pound Packers RB AJ Dillon for a 5-yard loss. It came after Andrew Billings’ pass rush up the middle forced a Love incompletion. The Packers had to punt it back after a short gain on a third-down pass with the Bears playing back in their zone.
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2:04: Packers 7, Bears 3
The Bears answered back with a penalty filled drive that wound up in a 47-yard field goal by Cairo Santos. The seven-play, 38-yard drive included three Bears penalties, including back-to-back false starts and unsportsmanlike conduct on Chase Clayool. However, Claypool’s was off-setting with one on Green Bay’s T.J. Slaton after Justin Fields was pushed out of bounds on scramble. Fields with an excellent job of moving and throwing on the drive, including a 23-yarder to Darnell Mooney.
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6:08: Packers 7, Bears 0
Third-and-goal and no pass rush at all as Love threw play-action for the TD pass to Doubs, who easily beat Eddie Jackson at the back of the end zone. The defense had a tackle for loss from Tremaine Edmunds and Gervon Dexter Jr. batted down a pass before the TD. Excellent job of standing in pocket, not panicking and waiting for Doubs to get open. No heat whatsoever from Bears rush. 11 plays, 40 yards, 5:23 on the drive.
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7:12
Jaquan Brisker injured as the drive continues and the Bears struggle to stop the run. Jones slammed into Brisker at the 5-yard line on third-and-2 for a first down and Brisker left the field. Bears run defense started the drive the right way with two straight tackles for loss but it’s been the Packers line taking over since then with all runs.
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9:45
Packers get the first down on a third-and-13 slant to Romeo Doubs. Right at the stick.
10:11
After getting the ball at the Bears 40, the Packers offense got pushed straight back on two running plays and had to call timeout on third-and-13.
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11:31
The first challenge of the year is after Justin Fields fails to pick up a first down on a fourth-and-one sneak at the Bears 40. Matt Eberflus gambled on the play after they failed on third-and-one with a trick sneak with Cole Kmet lining up in the backfield and taking the snap. Replay gave the ball to the Packers.
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14:11
The first Bears first down of the season comes aon a scree play of 19 yards to Khalil Herbert after a Roschon Johnson unsportsmanlike penalty on the opening kick return put them in a hole.
Pregame
Packers won the toss and deferred. Bears receive.Jim Cornelison with a version of the Star Spangled Banner as good as any he has done at United Center. The flyover arrived late and left a bunch of smoke.
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GENE CHAMBERLAINUPDATED:SEP 10, 2023 6:32 PM EDTORIGINAL:SEP 10, 2023
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2:00: Packers killing the clock but can’t get it done. It’s the only thing they haven’t gotten done this half. Bears ball.
2:54: Packers 38, Bears 20
Roschon Johnson with a 2-yard TD run as the Packers play back and let the Bears move it in short increments and eat up time with 14 plays to the score.
10:26: Another sack of Fields, Karl Brooks. Looking like the second-worst start to a Bears season.
The worst start had to be a 49-7 game in 2003 against San Francisco. But that was a road game.
12:53: Packers 38, Bears 14
Quay Walker completes the embarrassment for Fields as he picks him off and runs like a fullback through Bears tackles for a 42-yard TD. Officially, this is now the most embarrassing season opener at home for the Bears. A few more scores and maybe of all time. A Chase Claypool sighting. Fields threw high to him under heavy pressure for an incompletion.
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13:30: Packers 31, Bears 14
Love drops the snap, throws 37 yards to set up a 4-yard TD pass to Doubs. In the process, the Bears lost Kyler Gordon to a hand injury and he won’t return. All this came after another third-and-long conversion for the Packers as Reed gets wide open with no rush and Love hits him for 18 to the Bears 41.
Third Quarter
0:54
With all the momentum, Travis Homer commits a facemask on the kick return and gives the Packers the ball at the Green Bay 39. Jones has left the game with a hamstring injury with a questionable return.
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:59: Packers 24, Bears 14
Fields to Mooney at the back corner of the end zone for the touchdown, wide open, then Khalil Herbert explodes through a huge opening for the two-point conversion. A six-play, 65-yard drive.
2:06
A big completion to Mooney and then Roschon Johnson gives the running game life with a first down and then an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty tacked on. The pass to Mooney with 2:06 left was the first Bears first down of the second half.
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2:31
Braxton Jones with his second holding penalty wipes out a first down. Third penalty for him overall. He also allowed a sack. Then Rashan Gary beats Darnell Wright and sacks Fields. A penalty for offsides wiped out the sack, though.
All these weapons and Fields has targeted DJ Moore twice, Chase Claypool once (without a catch) and Darnell Mooney twice.
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3:22
The Bears forced a punt on Eddie Jackson’s big hit breaking up a first-down pass. The Bears get the ball back at their 20. Actually their own 35 after a facemasking penalty on the punt coverage by Green Bay.
5:30
And the inevitable Fields fumble. Forced by Kenny Clark on a scramble. Packers ball at the Bears 43.
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6:26
What has to be upsetting for Bears fans isn’t just losing but the overall failure to execute. Too many penalties on offense and play calls that are entirely predictable, like the wide receiver screens that haven’t worked. The Packers look sharp in their execution, few penalties or silly mistakes. The Bears look like a team that spent training camp “ramping up” rather than practicing or playing in preseason games.
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6:26
A fourth-and-3 slant to running back Jones and no one covered him. A 35-yard touchdown and the Bears are down 24-6. A four-play, 42-yard drive in 1:39.
6:34
Love forced to scramble on third-and-12 and gets 9 to set up fourth-and-3 and Green Bay goes for it. But the Packers don’t like what they see and call a timeout at the Bears 34. A 14-point lead right now would look good for Green Bay. Not sure why they’re thinking first down. But when you’re up 11 and the Bears offense has done nothing, why not?
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8:05
Nixon gets tremendous blocking, looks for it to set up and the Bears do a poor job of covering the punt. The Packers will start their drive at the Bears 42 looking to turn this into a lopsided game.
9:22
Boos. A screen pass goes nowhere after Fields is sacked on first down by Colby Wooden. It’s a three-and-out and more boos. The HITS principle isn’t looking so good right now.
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10:19: Packers 17, Bears 6
On third-and-goal at the 1, the sea parts and the Packers have a 75-yard TD drive thanks to Jones’ 1-yard run. The Bears are going to need to open up their offense now.
12:11
Tyrique Stevenson saves a touchdown on a beautifully set up screen for 51 yards to Jones. It was thrown all the way across the field off Love’s back foot but no one was there on the back side. Then Stevenson came all the way from the opposite side of the field to make the tackle.
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13:21
The Packers come out running like in the first half and three Aaron Jones rushes up the middle and a run around left end have them at their own 42. This is how the Bears defensive line leaked early in the game.
Half
The Bears limited Green Bay to six first downs. The Bears outgained Green Bay 147 yards to 100. Ugly game as I had predicted. The Packers have a sound defense and anything the Bears are going to get on offense might depend on Fields’ running.
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Second Quarter
:00: Green Bay 10, Bears 6
A 52-yard field goal by Anders Carlson ended the half but it could have been worse for the Bears after they let Love complete a third-and-10 pass for 28 yards to Jayden Reed. He was wide open against the zone and the Bears had no rush. The rush picked up later as Yannick Ngakoue killed the drive with his first Bears sack at the 34. The final march went 22 yards in six plays.
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1:19
The Bears managed a 12-yard Khalil Herbert run to get out of a hole but their horizontal passing game is well scouted by the Packers and snuffed out. They punt and Packers have a scoring chance at their own 44. Green Bay knows now when that wide receiver screen is coming and how to stop it. They should know how. They run the same offense.
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2:28
The Bears’ coverage leaves no room for Love’s receivers and he tries to scramble on third down but gets only 2 yards and they punt, pinning the Bears back at the 6. Might have been one Taylor should have let go into the end zone.
3:59
A third-and-6 completion of 16 yards to Samori Toure showed the Bears hadn’t corrected their pass rush problems. No rush at all.
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5:28
Bears go nowhere on the drive after Braxton Jones gets flagged for holding on a Field scramble. The best play was after they punted it and Josh Blackwell got downfield for an ankle tackle to stop Keisean Nixon at the Packers 30 on the return.
7:16
Bears get the ball back after a punt. Kyler Gordon knocked a third-and-2 pass away from Jayden Reed with a brilliant last-second break on the ball. Again the Packers hurt the Bears with the run on that short drive. A 68-yard punt into the end zone puts the Bears at their 20. The defensive front has been inconsistent, making big plays but giving up big chunks of yards on the ground. They’ve been the same way rushing the passer.
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8:50
Packers start at 24 and Tyrique Stevenson makes his second big hit, this on a 1-yard completion at the sidelines. Matt Eberflus was right about his ability to hit.
9:01: Packers 7, Bears 6
Cairo Santos hit a 29-yard field goal to end a 12-play, 52-yard drive over 6 1/2 minutes. Four straight plays went for over 10 yards at one point, with DJ Moore catching his first two Bears passes on the way for 25 yards. But Lukas Van Ness’ sack of Fields for a 7-yard loss back to the 11 took the starch out of the march.
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First Quarter
First quarter ended with the Bears gaining only 10 yards rushing.
1:00
Who says Yannick Ngakoue doesn’t defend the run. On second-and-10 he wiped out 247-pound Packers RB AJ Dillon for a 5-yard loss. It came after Andrew Billings’ pass rush up the middle forced a Love incompletion. The Packers had to punt it back after a short gain on a third-down pass with the Bears playing back in their zone.
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2:04: Packers 7, Bears 3
The Bears answered back with a penalty filled drive that wound up in a 47-yard field goal by Cairo Santos. The seven-play, 38-yard drive included three Bears penalties, including back-to-back false starts and unsportsmanlike conduct on Chase Clayool. However, Claypool’s was off-setting with one on Green Bay’s T.J. Slaton after Justin Fields was pushed out of bounds on scramble. Fields with an excellent job of moving and throwing on the drive, including a 23-yarder to Darnell Mooney.
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6:08: Packers 7, Bears 0
Third-and-goal and no pass rush at all as Love threw play-action for the TD pass to Doubs, who easily beat Eddie Jackson at the back of the end zone. The defense had a tackle for loss from Tremaine Edmunds and Gervon Dexter Jr. batted down a pass before the TD. Excellent job of standing in pocket, not panicking and waiting for Doubs to get open. No heat whatsoever from Bears rush. 11 plays, 40 yards, 5:23 on the drive.
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7:12
Jaquan Brisker injured as the drive continues and the Bears struggle to stop the run. Jones slammed into Brisker at the 5-yard line on third-and-2 for a first down and Brisker left the field. Bears run defense started the drive the right way with two straight tackles for loss but it’s been the Packers line taking over since then with all runs.
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9:45
Packers get the first down on a third-and-13 slant to Romeo Doubs. Right at the stick.
10:11
After getting the ball at the Bears 40, the Packers offense got pushed straight back on two running plays and had to call timeout on third-and-13.
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11:31
The first challenge of the year is after Justin Fields fails to pick up a first down on a fourth-and-one sneak at the Bears 40. Matt Eberflus gambled on the play after they failed on third-and-one with a trick sneak with Cole Kmet lining up in the backfield and taking the snap. Replay gave the ball to the Packers.
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14:11
The first Bears first down of the season comes aon a scree play of 19 yards to Khalil Herbert after a Roschon Johnson unsportsmanlike penalty on the opening kick return put them in a hole.
Pregame
Packers won the toss and deferred. Bears receive.Jim Cornelison with a version of the Star Spangled Banner as good as any he has done at United Center. The flyover arrived late and left a bunch of smoke.
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Inactives
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WR Christian Watson
RB Emanuel Wilson
S Anthony Johnson Jr.
S Zayne Anderson
LB Brenton Cox Jr.
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T Caleb Jones
G Sean Ryan
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WR Velus Jones Jr.
WR Equanimeous St. Brown
DE Khalid Kareem
QB Tyson Bagent*
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S Quindell Johnson
TE Stephen Carlson
*emergency QB
Pregame
Next week’s Bears opponent will be difficult. The Buccaneers will be at home and justbeat the Vikings 20-17 in Minneapolis.
Chicago’s other favorite team, anyone playing against Carolina, is the Atlanta Falcons today and the Panthers are losing 24-10 in the fourth quarter. The Bears could be 16 more Panther losses from the first pick in the draft.
Tonyan gets to face his old team but Equanimeous St. Brown does not. St. Brown is inactive and Tonyan is active. The real surprise is Velus Jones Jr. inactive. This means rookie Tyler Scott is active. It leaves the kick return position open. Expect either Khalil Herbert, Roschon Johnson, Tyler Scott or Trent Taylor to be returning kicks. Taylor is the punt returner. The Bears aren’t messing around with this. If a player can’t have a full grasp of the offense, he’s not playing. Coaches and Jones himself said in the off-season he needed to be better with the offense but everyone kept insisting he is well versed in it now. Still, it’s a drastic move when Jones was third in the league in kick return average last year for all returners with at least 20 attempts. If it’s Scott on the kick return duties, then it might have been that 55-yard return he had in the preseason finale that convinced coaches to keep him active. He hadn’t shown much as a kick returner until then.
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Bears tight end Robert Tonyan was stretching on the field prior to the game. They’ll be doing a pregame check on him to see if he’ll be active for the game after he suddenly was added to the injury report on Saturday with a back injury. It could mean a bigger role for Marcedes Lewis against his old team if Tonyan, a former Packer can’t go. Also, it might mean Stephen Carlson plays. They might have Carlson active, anyway, if Tonyan plays with the injury.
Adam Schefter reported Romeo Doubs will be playing against the Bears. He has a hamstring injury and the Packers had listed him as questionable.
It looks like Kirk Cousins is in midseason form. Threw for 273 yards and an interception and TD pass in the first half, yet the Vikings are tied with the Bears’ next opponents 10-10.
