Week 12: Bears @ Lions Turkey Day on CBS at 11:30

[minnesotacubsfan]

Bears defense outscored the Lions offense 7-3 in the 4th quarter and forced 2 TOs.

 

Edit: so far

 

Their ballhawking bailed out their tendency to give up long plays and long drives late.

 

That pick by Eddie Jackson was insane, best I’ve seen all year.

 

 

Eddie went’a gamblin and won big

[raw]

oh hell yeah

 

and were those dweebs really not going to call that blatant horsefeathers hold on floyd?!?!

Every big play they had was due to a blatant hold at the point of attack. All Blounts runs. All passes that too more than 2.5 seconds to throw. Every single one of them.

 

Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

[UMFan83]

Wow just need to beat NYG and SF to pretty much guarantee playoffs

[cubbyvirus00]

Getting mike brown vibes from Eddie Jackson

[Chocolate Milk]

That’s great coaching, imo

[minnesotacubsfan]

That’s great coaching, imo

 

 

I would agree. Chase played better then I was expecting and the D never broke. So happy with the short week, short handed win.

[Wilson A2000]

@tomfornelli The Bears have won 3 division games in the last 12 days. The Bears won 3 division games in three seasons under John Fox.

[We Got The Whole 9]

The Bears have allowed the most points in the 4th quarter, this is true. However, several scores have been against soft defense in garbage time, and I believe this also includes a special teams TD. Its a little bit of a misnomer.

 

Man I can't stop watching that play by Eddie. Seriously it was incredible.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The Bears have allowed the most points in the 4th quarter, this is true. However, several scores have been against soft defense in garbage time, and I believe this also includes a special teams TD. Its a little bit of a misnomer.

 

Man I can't stop watching that play by Eddie. Seriously it was incredible.

 

I don't think they're literally the worst defense in the league in the 4th by any means. It's just a real flaw that has shown up in a lot of games.

 

It cost them the Packers game, it cost them the Dolphins game, and it made things uncomfortably close in both games this week.

 

It's not going to stop them from easily winning the division, but it's the biggest reason I don't think they can beat LA and/or NO.

[Brian]

On mobile so I can’t embed the tweet, so go check out the club dub video tweet for this one. Nagy was jacked up and in full swagy Nagy mode.

[raw]

The Bears have allowed the most points in the 4th quarter, this is true. However, several scores have been against soft defense in garbage time, and I believe this also includes a special teams TD. Its a little bit of a misnomer.

 

Man I can't stop watching that play by Eddie. Seriously it was incredible.

 

I don't think they're literally the worst defense in the league in the 4th by any means. It's just a real flaw that has shown up in a lot of games.

 

It cost them the Packers game, it cost them the Dolphins game, and it made things uncomfortably close in both games this week.

 

It's not going to stop them from easily winning the division, but it's the biggest reason I don't think they can beat LA and/or NO.

 

They gotta be able to run the ball better. Overall, the Bears are actually 4th in time of possession, but it's been going the other way in the current win streak, and especially bad in the 4th quarter.

 

TOP 27 min for Bears vs. 33 min for Lions today, Lions had the ball almost 11 minutes of the 4th quarter.

TOP 34.5 to 25.5 in favor of Bears on Sunday. But Vikings had the ball 8 minutes and 15 seconds of the 15 minutes in the 4th.

TOP 32 to 28 minutes in favor of Lions. Lions had the ball for 10 of the final 18 minutes.

TOP 34 to 26 in favor of Bills, which is significant considering it was a 41-9 win. Buffalo's TD drive was 8 minutes long in the 4th

TOP 33 to 27 in favor of Bears. 4th quarter almost dead even in TOP. Jets scored their only TD in 4th.

 

So, the Bears definitely need to control the ball better late in the game when they have the lead. But on the other hand, they've allowed 45 points 4th quarter points during this 5 game win streak, but only 3 of them came when they were NOT up by two scores. I'm sure playing prevent defense and allowing teams to make catches in front of them and protecting the sidelines have a lot to do with it. But being able to run the ball would give teams less time to score late and give the defense much needed rest.

[WrigleyField 22]

Saw a fun stat that Eddie Jackson leads the league in defensive TDs since 2015.

 

You may also recall he was drafted in 2017.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Saw a fun stat that Eddie Jackson leads the league in defensive TDs since 2015.

 

You may also recall he was drafted in 2017.

 

He broke on his pick 6 a good 8 yards away from the wr AND weaved between two other wr’s and dbs. Unbelievable. Straight up street ball. Stafford never saw him because Jackson was nowhere near the wr when he threw it.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Saw a fun stat that Eddie Jackson leads the league in defensive TDs since 2015.

 

You may also recall he was drafted in 2017.

 

He broke on his pick 6 a good 8 yards away from the wr AND weaved between two other wr’s and dbs. Unbelievable. Straight up street ball. Stafford never saw him because Jackson was nowhere near the wr when he threw it.

He even started to enter the box before he read the pass. Pretty much as well as I've ever seen a DB break on a ball.

[raw]

Saw a fun stat that Eddie Jackson leads the league in defensive TDs since 2015.

 

You may also recall he was drafted in 2017.

 

He broke on his pick 6 a good 8 yards away from the wr AND weaved between two other wr’s and dbs. Unbelievable. Straight up street ball. Stafford never saw him because Jackson was nowhere near the wr when he threw it.

He even started to enter the box before he read the pass. Pretty much as well as I've ever seen a DB break on a ball.

It was man coverage designed to look like Cover 2. Jackson was coming down to cover the TE, but he also stated post game that when that TE lined up like that (slightly flexed off the line) that he always ran to the flat. Perfect play call by Fangio. Perfect read by Jackson. Obviously a great break on the ball too.

 

Sent from my moto e5 supra using Tapatalk

[Bertz]

I'm not worried about the defense disappearing late or whatever. It 100% happened during the Dolphins game, but the field conditions that led to that are not something we need to worry about happening again in December and January. I can see the argument for the Packers game too, though I tend to think it was mostly a case of Rodgers being hopped up on adrenaline and going Super Saiyan for a half. Even if you want to blame the defense, keep in mind that was when Mack and Roquan were still on a pretty conservative snap count from missing training camp.

[David]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LvvMkyxanc

[BigbadB]

I'd be interested to know just how many holding calls have been made on pass protection when playing against the Bears. I'm not so sure they are even averaging 1 a game. If they aren't going to call it, guess what the pass protection will do even more?

[gflore34]

One of the best plays was Mack (I think it was Mack) stuffing Riddick at the line of scrimmage, believe the TE assumed it was going to be open. Hence, the lackadaisical effort and subsequent INT

[gflore34]

I'd be interested to know just how many holding calls have been made on pass protection when playing against the Bears. I'm not so sure they are even averaging 1 a game. If they aren't going to call it, guess what the pass protection will do even more?

 

Mack gets held on nearly every rush, I wonder have the Bears been called for holding more often than their opponents?

[ChiCubsFan]

Best place to buy cheaper knockoff jerseys? Need an Eddie Jackson jersey now.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Lost in the Eddie Jackson hype (absolutely deserved) is the fact that Kyle Fuller is quietly having a better year then last year. 15 pass defenses and 5 ints. So much for any “contract year” theory of his last year. Fuller has become the 1st rd DB he was picked to be.

[Butterscup]

should have 6 INTs tho

[WrigleyField 22]

should have 6 INTs tho

6 INT

9 WINS

[itisallpartoftheplan]

It was almost a year ago the Eagles dominated us and celebrated repeatedly on us.

 

Now here we are a year later beating a division rival on the road on 3 days rest with our backup qb and making attention grabbing celebrations each week. Crazy.