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    Chicago Bears 20, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 19 Final

    Scoring, highlights and commentary from BearDigest.com editor Gene Chamberlain blogging live from Soldier Field at the Chicago Bears-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game as the Bears try to go 4-1 on a season for the first time under coach Matt Nagy

    Fourth Quarter

    • The Bears beat Tom Brady, finally, 20-19.
    • Victory formation for Bears, who are 4-1.
    • DeAndre Houston-Carson breaks up pass to Brate. Bears win.
    • Fourth-and-6 at the Bucs 41
    • Second-and-10 at the 37. Brady dumps it off for 4 yards but clock is running
    • A 12-yard pass to the sideline to Evans and OB. Incomplete to right sideline to Evans.
    • Bucs plenty of time with 1:13 left and a master at using the clock.
    • Santos 38-yard field goal with 1:13 left. Bears 20, Bucs 19
    • Incomplete to Robinson. Then Foles finds Robinson for 6 yards to the 20. Bears will line up for the 38-yard field goal with 1:17 left. Bucs use their last timeout.
    • Montgomery goes off right guard for 1 yard. Bucs use first timeout.
    • Bears need at least 10 yards for Santos. Foles perfect drop in behind teh coverage for 17 yards to the 25 to Montgomery. Bucs have two timeouts left.
    • Screen to Montgomery loses a yard but the Bucs' Vita Vea when he is hit from behind low by a teammate. Cart comes on the field to take him off.
    • At Bucs 41
    • Incomplete. Bears get first down then on 10-yard pass to Anthony Miller at sideline.
    • Montgomery nets 1 up the middle. 2-minute warning.
    • Bears at 48 after 7-yard Ginn return.
    • Risky pass by Brady with Nichols putting on hit. Falls incomplete. Third-and-12.
    • Bears spend a timeout
    • Jones stuffed for a 2-yard loss by Brent Urban.
    • One of best special teams plays of the year by Bears. A 59-yard O'Donnell punt and they covered it for only an 8-yard return. Bucs at own 16. Wims and Patterson on coverage.
    • Third-and-8 at 33 and Foles has it tipped and incomplete. Suh hit Foles as he threw. Bears punting with 2:59 left and all their timeouts.
    • Miller with a short catch for 2 yards and Foles throws it up deep but incomplete to Mooney on sidelines. Nothing there and he had no time to go elsewhere.
    • Incomplete pass should have been intercepted but a roughing the passer against Shaq Barrett. Terrible call. These officials are ridiculous with the flags on quarterback hits.
    • Incomplete first down. The Bucs will be blitzing on second and 10. They didn't but Gholston with a sack anyway. 
    • Touchback. Bears start at 25.
    • Brady to Gronk. Nearly picked off by Gipson but short of first down. Chip shot field goal for Succop, his fourth field goal of the game. From 25 yards with 4:49 remaining. Buccaneers 19, Bears 17.
    • At Bears 16, Brady sacked by Mack. Then incomplete to Jones. Third-and-17 at Bears 23.
    • Brady to Brate for a first down on a completion of 9. Bears blitzed and Brate only had to beat Trevathan.
    • Jones gains 2 yards off right tackle. 
    • Screen to Gronk on opposite side of field is wide open and breaks for 23 yards to the Bears 27.
    • A 10-yard pass interference and 10-yard run by Jones and Bucs are at midfield, facing second-and-11.
    • It was Santos' longest field goal with the Bears. Comes in a week when they brought in Kai Forbath for a tryout.
    • Cairo Santos drills a 47-yard field goal 10:34 to play. Bears 17, Buccaneers 16
    • Another 3-yard toss to Montgomery, then a third-down deep ball down the sideline to Robinson and Davis gets caught committing a stupid pass interference penalty. Bears at the Tampa Bay 30.

    Third Quarter

    • Bears back at the 34 now. Mooney catches a 5-yard pass and is driven hard out of bounds but no roughing call.
    • Ryan Nall commits a false start. Why is he even in there? They take him out now.
    • Third-and-24 at the Bucs 29
    • Blitz came, Foles sacked by Jason Pierre-Paul and Bobby Massie recoveres back at the Tampa Bay 32. Second-and-27. Montgomery goes off left guard for 3. 
    • Montgomery reverses field from right tackle to middle and gets 7, then a pass to robinson in the open field on sideline and he breaks a tackle for 8 yards to the 15. Bears in the red zone again.
    • Montgomery around right end for 4. Quarter ends.  Buccaneers 16, Bears 14
    • Foles to Robinson, beats Davis for a first down at the 43. A 6-yard flip.
    • Robinson on a short slant for 8 on first down at the 37. 1:05 left in quarter.
    • Gotta believe Bowles will start blitzing now.
    • RPO slant to Robinson off the fake to Montgomery. First down at the 29 after 9-yard gain.
    • Foles 5-step drop for 8 to Graham
    • Have to wonder why they wouldn't let Rashaad Coward play. He is the right guard backup and has 10 starts. 
    • Bars still in for Daniels. This is a tough situation for a young player. Look for Ndamukong Suh to be on the rampage. 
    • Punt and Ginn calls fair catch at 12.
    • Brady to Evans for 6. Third-and-27 and Brady throws deep but is under heavy rush. He overthrows and Alex Cappa was called for holding anyway. Bucs punt. Refs have suddenly decided they can call holding on offensive linemen. They haven't been doing it all year.
    • Bucs first down at own 45. Brady to Mickens for 10 but the Bucs' Ryan Jensen gets a 15-yard penalty and the down counts since it occurred after the play. Lots of bad blood going on. Brady was jawing at Mack after he was sacked. 
    • Cameron Brate catches third-down and 15 pass to the Bears 35 after Brady eludes rush. But holding penalty on next play puts it at Bears 45. First down. Then offensive interference and Mack gets a sack but offsetting penalties. 
    • Injury to Daniels is a pectoral muscle. Questionable on return.
    • Alex Bars in for James Daniels at left guard. Incomplete and holding on the play and Bears punting from their own 16. A 43-yard puntn and another dumb Bears special teams penalty. Bucs at 50.
    • Montgomery finds tough sledding again for 1 yard. The running game might make the difference in this one. Tampa Bay will have more than 100 yards and Bears haven't been able to run. Foles get sacked on second down for 9-yard loss.
    • Touchback. They wised up and kicked away from Patterson.
    • Short completion for 6 to Bears 42. Third-and-21 and Brady gets Evans for a pass in field goal range but nowhere near first down. A 14-yard gain.  Succop kicks a 46-yard field goal with 9:04 left in quarter. Bucs 16, Bears 14
    • Buster Skrine is blocked low and in the back by Rob Gronkowski and penalty backs up Bucs to Bears 49.
    • Mack blind-side sack of Brady. Beat the rookie Tristan Wirfs badly. Seven-yard loss.
    • Jones runs straight up the middle for 37 yards past Trevathan. Vaughn's injured after Fuller's hit in first half and is questionable to return. 
    • Terrible punt and terrible coverage but Jaydon Mickens stumbles around for a 12-yard return. He easily could have had 25 or more because the coverage was that bad and the punt really low. Bucs at their own 32.
    • Anthony Miller surfaces for a 9-yard completion but Bears must punt.
    • Short throw to Robinson for 3 yards. Bears face third-and-17 at their own 24.
    • Holding on Cole Kmet. Second-and-20.
    • No gain on dump out to Montgomery in the flat.
    • Patterson another ill-advised kick return from 9 yards deep but he nearly breaks it and returns it 40 yards to the 31.

    Halftime Statistics

    Foles 15 of 21 for 151 yards with a TD and interception. Brady 14 of 23 for 130 yards and one TD. The Bears have been outrushed 56-19 yards.

    Bears 14, Buccaneers 13 Half

    Second Quarter

    • Hicks knocks down throw and Brady kneels down.
    • Expect a hook-and-ladder or something silly here. It's too far for a Hail Mary.
    • Bucs at 25 after touchback. Jones gains 6 on delay off left tackle. Clock running. Then Jones on a short pass to the Tampa 39 with eight seconds left. Bucs use timeout.
    • Foles to Jimmy Graham beats single coverage with jump ball TD of 12 yards. Caught the ball behind Jamel Dean with one hand. Bears 14, Bucs 13 after 55-second drive. 
    • Foles to Patterson again, and he picks up the first down on a nice move in the open field at the Bucs' 12. Gain of 8.
    • Foles to Graham in end zone but he has big feet and was ruled out of bounds.
    • Bears at the 27 of Tampa and Foles to Robinson on slant for 7.
    • Replay Reversal. Bears recovered the ball and are awarded possession. Fuller forced it and Quinn recovered at 27.
    • Kyle Fuller knocks the ball loose with big hit and officials try to give him a roughing penalty for a clean hit on the ball. They wave off the flag. But it looks on replay like a catch and fumble by Ke'Shawn Vaughn with a Bears recovery.
    • Mack plays volleyball on first pass from 25. Incomplete. Then an incompletion on second down and Bucs face third-and-10 with 1:37 left from their 25.
    • David Montgomery breaks inside for a 3-yard TD run on second-and-goal after silly pass call requiring Foles to roll out. Santos extra point makes it Bucs 13, Bears 7 1:48 left in half. 10 plays, 75 yards, 5:15, 1 defensive penalty.
    • Two-minute warning
    • Play-action after 3-yard Patterson run and Robinson catches it on skinny post for first down at Bucs 3.
    • Nice play by Montgomery in open field as Foles beat blitz for 12-yard gain on a short toss in the flat at the Bucs 44.
    • Tampa Bay jumped offsides on play, Shaq Barrett. Third-and-7.
    • Foles to Montgomery for 4 yards and Bears face third-and-12 at own 39.
    • Foles dumps one off for a loss of 6 yards to Montgomery. Foles should have thrown it away as David Montgomery was covered.
    • A 7-yard completion on first down and Bears have second-and-3 and finally get a first down on a slant by Demetrius Harris for 9 yards.
    • Trubisky is not warming up. Sticking with Foles. Patrick Scales and Pat O'Donnell are warming up though. That's good because no doubt they'll be needed.
    • Brady goes for Evans on the post and throws it too high in the end zone. Succop kicks a 35-yard field goal with 7:08 remaining in the half. 13 plays 73 yards 6:56 on drive. Two defensive penalties. Buccaneers 13, Bears 0
    • Jones run on second down gets 1 after an incompletion and Bucs face third-and-7.
    • If Bears don't get more pass rush on Brady than this, he'll ring up 40. 
    • Brady throws deep and Jaylon Johnson runs up Grayson's shoes and gets a pass interference at the Bears 20.
    • Another missed Roquan tackle in the backfield and it goes for a first down to the Bears 36.
    • False start by Bucs. Officials named wrong player. At the Tampa 46 now 9:13 left in quarter. No pass rush again and Brady hits Brate for 10. Second-and-5 at Bears 44.
    • Bucs run a pick play for a first down on third-and-4 and the refs have thrown a flag but they're calling Kyle Fuller for a facemask and not the pick. A 9-yard gain to the 35 and 15 yards to Bears 49.
    • Second-and-7 at the 23 after a 3-yard run. Brady to Cameron Brate, the Naperville native. He gets 4 out of bounds and it's third-and-3.
    • Tampa Bay gets it on a quarterback sneak. The Bears should have challenged. The Bucs must really fear the Bears offense to go for fourth-and-1 at their 20.
    • Pass at sideline comes up a yard short and Bucs acting like they're going for fourth-and-1 play at their own 20. The spot on the pass was poor. Bears should challenge it it to have it moved back about a yard.
    • False start on Tampa Bay. Second-and-10. Short pass nets nothing. Third-and-10. Bear Raid Siren sounding. The janitors like it. 
    • Jones plows ahead up middle for 5.
    • Better re-recalibrate the offense.
    • Bucs ball at their 11.
    • Fourth-and-6 and Bears punting from Bucs 48 after Foles misses mark to go 5 of 9 for 60 yards.
    • Third-and-6 at Bucs 48 and Bears can't get the play off. Five seconds left on clock and Matt Nagy wants a timeout. I think I'd begin warming up Trubisky. This recalibrating doesn't appear to have worked. There are receivers coming wide open and Foles isn't seeing them or hitting them.
    • Montgomery cuts off right guard for 4.
    • Mooney broke wide open on play-action and Foles misses him by a mile
    •  Bears at their own 48. They've been moving Allen Robinson around, hoping to get a matchup against someone other than cornerback Carlton Davis, but Davis is following him all over the field. 

    First Quarter

    • Patterson goes off guard for the first down to end the quarter. Buccaneers 10, Bears 0
    • Foles hits Robinson short and he breaks a tackle for 8 along sideline.
    • Patterson 47-yard kick return to the 38.
    • Bears defense responded poorly after change of possession on interception. 
    • Brady to Evans on the slant for a 2-yard TD pass. Interference called on Jaylon Johnson but not necessary. Patriots kick the extra point with 56 seconds left in the quarter. Buccaneers 10, Bears 0.  
    • Jones rolled into the end zone on the play. The replay shows he caught the ball on replay reversal. He beat Roquan Smith on the play. The ball hit his left forearm and not the ground. But the ball is at the 2 and not in the end zone. Third-and-goal at the 2. 
    • Brady has receiver open in middle at goal line but underthrows him. Second-and-goal at the 11.
    • Brady muffs the snap and Roquan Smith tackles him for a 2-yard loss. 
    • Bears secondary misses two tackles and allows 35-yard psas to the 9.
    • Jones powers for 6 off left guard to Bears 44.
    • Back-shoulder throw to Robinson is too low and not far enough back. Carlton Davis deflects and intercepts it after it its Robinson's hand and returns it to midfield. This wasn't much different than the ones taken away from Robinson in the Giants and Atlanta game, except it was much more poorly thrown. Poor start by Foles.
    • After a 2-yard David Montgomery run, Foles finds Jimmy Graham along right sideline after looking to throw left  and gets 13 for a first down.
    • Foles short-arms throw and has Robinson open but Robinson goes to his knee and gets it at the 49. Gain of 24.
    • Jaylon Johnson with pass defense on incompletion by Brady downfield on left sideline. Punt is left to bounce by Ted Ginn Jr. and the Bears get no return on a 56-yard punt. So they start at their own 25. Not a wise decision. If this is what they can expect from Ginn, then they should let Javon Wims do it. Ginn let one bounce last week as well, but got lucky then because it bounced right to him. 5:39 left in quarter.
    • Tashaun Gipson good open-field hit on Jones for 2-yard pass. Third-and-6 at 19.
    • Finally the heat is turned on in the press box. The shivering can stop.
    • Patriots from the 15.
    • Foles has Allen Robinson wide open on short throw for possibly 30 or 40 yards down the sideline after the catch and can't complete it on the run. Bears punt. Mitchell Trubisky completes that one easily.
    • A 3-yard gain up the middle by David Montgomery. Todd Bowles sends the blitz but Foles finds his hot read to Patterson for 5. Third-and-2 at the 44.
    • Foles goes underneath coverage on sidelines for 9 and a first down to Darnell Mooney at the 36.
    • Patterson on an end-around toss left for just 2. 
    • Cordarrelle Patterson from 8 yards deep returns it to the 24. Should have downed it.
    • Tampa Bay has one of the league's best red-zone offenses, but they didn't make it to the red zone on that drive. 
    • Big hit by Danny Trevathan breaks up third-down pass and Ryan Succop makes 39-yard field goal. 11 plays 54 yards 5:12. Bucs 3, Bears 0
    • A 17-yarder to Tyler Johnson sets Bucs up at 25 but Brady overthrows in end zone, then Jones rumbles for 4 on second down.
    • Roquan Smith blitzes and misses the tackle on Jones for an 11-yard run. Hit him high and bounced off. Should have been in low.
    • Pass rush all over Bucs on first down and Ryan Jensen gets caught holding. FIrst-and-20.
    • Another 4-yard gain for Jones, this off left tackle, then Gronk gets in on the act for a first down catch of 13 yards to Bears 43.
    • Tom Brady looks deep but Fuller has coverage and ball goes over Mike Evans' head. On third-and-6 Brady hits Jaydon Mickens against Fuller for the first down on crossing route.
    • Ronald Jones the starter at tailback for the Bucs and they get 4 off right tackle.
    •  Bucs from the 25 after touchback.

    Bears had nine players kneeling. Josh Woods was lone player out for the coin toss. Bears are kicking off.

    Pregame conditions: Temperature 57 degrees, dropping to 53 during the game. 9 mph wind off the lake.

    The Bears will have to face Leonard Fournette. Tampa Bay went against regular NFL protocol and labeled him doubtful on the injury report, and did not upgrade him. Then he went from doubtful to playing.  Also active for the Bucs is wide receiver Mike Evans, who was questionable. Also playing is wide receiver Scott Miller from the Chicago suburbs, who has developed a good rapport with Tom Brady.

    The Fournette situation is reminiscent of how the Minnesota Vikings started Brett Favre against the Bears in 2010 a

    Inactives

    Bears

    S Deon Bush 

    S Sherrick McManis 

    OL Arlington Hambright

    WR Riley Ridley

    DL Daniel McCullers

    OLB Trevis Gipson

    Buccaneers

    WR Chris Godwin  

    RB LeSean McCoy 

    WR Justin Watson 

    QB Ryan Griffin

    G Aaron Stinnie

    DL Khalil Davis 

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