I just can't believe we see the stat " BEARS HAVENT SCORED IN THIRD QUARTER ALL YEAR" when the 3rd starts. In that quarter, we get to the 1 yard line and the 15 yard line and also get a pick 6. But we leave the third quarter still scoreless somehow.
Well that sucks. I was just about to say that we'll finally score in the 3rd quarter this season, but nope. Only team in the NFL to not score in one of the 4 quarters this season.
Wait, what? The call on Bennett was actually a generous spot. It was clearly a delay of game call. And Lovie didn't challenge when Cutler actually had broken the plane. This isn't ref collusion. Not even close. I agree, except that the refs called that Cutlers forward progress hadn't stopped when it had. And yes Lovie was stupid for not challenging but the refs missed Cutler breaking the plane too. Also, wouldn't have mattered but it would have been nice if the refs killed the play before it was intercepted and DJ Moore scored a TD.
Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, Bears made the Super Bowl a few years ago, Bulls won 6 titles in your lifetime, Illinois had the comeback against Arizona, etc etc etc. You're not a Boston fan, but you aren't a Cleveland fan either.
I'm trying to remember wasn't there another game recently where a big play was negated by a delay of game penalty? I want to say it was either a MNF or SNF game late in the game.
Very smart challenge by Lovie. Any other team i'd say unless it was blatently obvious don't challenge it. But I don't at all feel convinced the Bears can score from this position so its a good challenge. Edit: And it appears everyone else is thinking like I am too.
Maynards punts today: 39 yards, 40 yards, 37 yards, 28 yards, 34 yards. Average of 35.6 yards. If that was his season average, he would be 32/32 for qualified punters in the league. As it is, his season average is only 38.8 which is 31st out of 32