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Defense forces a punt and Bears get a FG. Good start to the 2nd half. The defense cannot get passive and they need to double St. Brown. Make Goff throw to someone else.

I hate this defense, so passive, give 10 yard cushions. Their best WR WIDE OPEN. Come on Flus.

DJ Moore with a huge first down. All out blitz, DJ gets the ball 7 yards short and gets the first after breaking 3 tackles, wow.

Mooney made a nice catch, but man he sucks at blocking. Foreman got blew up earlier on a whiffed block, then he whiffed on a block for Fields.

They need to stretch them out. 8 in the box every down.

Johnson has a long DPI and now a missed pick-6. Basically a 14-point swing on one play.

Scott's fumble and a missed pick-6 by Johnson equals 7 points for the Lions. You can't make mistakes like that and expect to win.

Damn Johnson drops a pick-6 on 1st and goal, ouch.

Scott fumbles on a simple pass, he can't be that weak with the ball. Lions ball in Bears territory, not good.

Pick #2, TJ Edwards!!!!!

Fields tries a deep shot, then has a pass batted down. Gill sucks ass. How can you not angle the punt to the sidelines towards the 10. He punts it straight down the center of the field for a touchback punting from the 45. The Bears need a new punter.

Huge 4th Down pass to Moore. Fields looks great.

Stevenson with the pick. When you get pressure on Goff, he gets shaky.

Fields had 38 passing yards and 28 rushing yards on the first drive. 7 first downs. The Bears only average 19 per game, Lions average 22.

WOW what a signature drive, 75 yard drive, 5+ minutes. They looked unstoppable. First offensive series: 1 rollout, 1 designed run, 1 RPO run for Fields, then a scramble and pass to Moore, then a nice pass to Kmet for another 1st Down, then a designed reverse rollout and pass to St. Brown. The first RB run with Foreman to left for 4. Another rollout designed boot run for Fields, slides and gets hit, no call. Foreman a beastmode run on 1st and goal to the 2. The play clock almost runs out, but Bears get a timeout in before the penalty. Fake run, then pass to Tonyan, defensive PI. 1st down on the half yard line. Foreman walks in for the ez TD. 7-0 Bears. No 3rd downs, all 1st and 2nd downs. Crazy.

No excuses today for the entire team. Even if they lose, as long as they are super competitive and lose, they can at least show they belong. A win is obviously better, but a bad loss, even a 10 point loss would be disappointing because one extra first rounder isn't going to magically make them contenders. They need to do it with the players they have now. Poles/Eberflus have never beaten an NFC North opponent, not really taking the North.

If there ever was a game to steal, it is this one. Lions coming home from a west coast game, Bears on extended rest from TNF, Bears healthier than they have been all year, and Detroit plays again on Thanksgiving.

Penix continues to put up big numbers. Jayden Daniels had 372 passing yards, 3 TD, 0 INT AND 12 rushes for 234 yards and 2 TDs, an insane game last week.

I am not liking either of them at #1. I would rather trade down and gain 1 or 2 additional first rounders.

Today's NCAA games: Williams - 26/35, 74.3%, 324 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT, 155.8 QB Rating; 3 sacks, 6 rushes, -12 yards (9 mins left, losing 38-13) Maye - 13/28, 46.4%, 175 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT, 110.7 QB Rating, 3 sacks, 8 rushes, 55 yards (10 mins left, losing 31-14)

Yep, that has been missing, virtually no Game Winning Drives.

The Allen thing is really baffling because you can see he is throwing some bad INTs that are literally losing games for the Bills. He has 11 INTs now in 10 games, and most have been back breaking. He also has 3 fumbles lost, so 14 turnovers in 10 games (Fields has 8 in 6 games). However, all the stats and metrics (outside of INTs) say he is top 5. He is 4th in QBR, PFF has him graded as the 3rd best QB, he is 5th in DVOA, and has a 96.6 QB Rating (Mahomes has a 96.7).

If you go position by position, it really is Center on the O-Line and 3T on the D-Line where the huge disparity is. Sewell/Decker are better than Jones/Wright, but it is not a massive difference. Jenkins is probably the best G out of both lines. On the DLine, Sweat and Billings would both start for Detroit, its the other half where the Bears are lacking.

Watching the TNF game, neither team looked like world beaters. The Ravens vaunted defense allowed 20 to Jake Browning throwing to Tanner Hudson and Trenton Irwin.

Like Detroit used 2x first round picks on a RB and LB. If you consider that Monty has looked great and been the bellcow for most of the season, neither of those picks have been that impactful (Gibbs did start a few games with Monty out), but for the season, those two picks are not why they are 7-2. So how did they do it?