The Chicago Bears had been in it in opposition to the Houston Texans final Sunday night time.
They held C.J. Stroud and the Texans offense to below 20 factors and had an opportunity on the finish to try to win the sport.
Nonetheless, Caleb Williams and the offense struggled to place factors on the board, which is the principle motive why they ended up dropping 19-13.
Star broad receiver D.J. Moore was very sincere with the Chicago media this week when speaking about how shut his workforce was to successful.
“We were one play away from the game changing. And we just couldn’t connect,” Moore stated (through ESPN’s Courtney Cronin).
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For the second consecutive week, the Bears struggled to place collectively a very good offensive efficiency.
Caleb Williams threw for 174 yards and two interceptions whereas the run recreation was solely in a position to produce 71 complete yards.
Williams himself was sacked a whopping seven instances.
The offense additionally went 6 of 17 on third down conversions and no Bears broad receiver had greater than 53 yards receiving (Moore led the workforce in each receptions and yards; six receptions for 53 yards).
Sadly for Chicago, they weren’t going up in opposition to a turnover-prone Will Levis for the second consecutive week.
They had been dealing with an elite quarterback in Stroud with high quality ability gamers.
Once more, the Bears’ protection did a greater job than most would possibly.
They held Houston to 4 of 14 on third downs, solely gave up 75 yards speeding, and compelled the Texans to kick area objectives as an alternative of touchdowns.
However in the long run, the Chicago offense simply couldn’t make that one play to place themselves in a successful place.
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