Bears and Colts In-Game Blog

Fourth Quarter

Peterman sacked to end the game.
Third down after a pass in end zone to Lachlan Pitts, the back up tight end.
Fountain gives Bears a chance at the Bears 48 with a long catch. Then Isaiah Ford catches it at the 24 of the Colts with 19 seconds left and the clock is stopped with a spike and 17 seconds left.
Bears stop Jason Huntley 3 yards short of a first down. On fourth down with 1:14 left. Matt Gay kicking a field goal. Gay's kick good with 1:10 remaining. Colts 24, Bears 17
Ehlinger's run right nets the first down and lets the Colts keep the clock running with 3:14 remaining at Bears 32. Bears stop the clock with last timeout. It will stop again at two minutes. Ehlinger is looking like a great runner but the Bears defensive play up front has been slow to the ball and they've taken poor angles. The game just ended for all intents and purposes on an illegal hands to the face against D'Anthony Jones.
Burns lost a fumble and the Colts have it back at the Bears 44.
Jake Funk TD run and the Bears are down with 4:28 left. Colts are going for two again. Funk plows into the end zone. Colts 21, Bears 17.
Jaylon Jones being looked at on his left leg after a first-down Ehlinger scramble.
He was ejected.
Jalen Harris unncessary rougheness added to end of a 22-yard pass and the Colts are in scoring range. Harris should have probably been ejected. He took a swing at a Colts tackle but missed.
Kendall Williamson got down under the punt for a good, solid, open-field tackle.
They'll re-punt because of off-setting penalties. Michael Ojemudia with the personal foul on the Bears, and then they can't even get the re-kick off because of a false start. Play had been plagued by penalties early, and now late.
Tight end Stephen Carlson injured on the play and team medical people are on the field checking it out. Limped off field to sidelines.
Peterman can't move it and they'll have to punt again. Could have been pass interference on third down throw to Webster.
The Colts do everyone a favor and go for two. Either way it makes overtime unlikely. And the pass failed when Ehlinger ran out of room rolling right. Well defensed by Bears linebackers and DBs even though the rush wasn't pressuring him in the backfield much. Bears 17 Colts 13 4th
James Washington beat Jaylon Jones deep at the 5-yard line with a one-handed catch and then Ehlinger scrambles in for the TD with 8:38 to go. The Colts just signed Washington a couple days ago. He was a player who the Bears should have considered because he has size and speed and probably is better than some of the receivers they have on the roster.
Davion Taylor with a jolting tackle in his first Bears game at linebacker, the former Eagles player they just picked up. No waiting or ramping him up. They got him in there and he did what a linebacker should do.
Nsimba Webster with a fair catch. He's next in line of punt return succession. Webster isn't bad at doing it, either. If they could have taught Velus Jones Jr. to do it, they'd have their problems solved. But last week made it apparent he doesn't judge the ball well with a punt coverage team bearing down on him. It's not like returning kicks.
Jalen Harris pressures Ehlinger out of the pocket and nearly gets a sack on the incompletion. The Bears force a punt.
One of those rookies, Travis Bell, flushed Ehlinger out of the pocket and into a second-and-18 incompletion. Bell had a half a sack last week.
Bravvion Roy steps up with a play. Had a strong pass rush. Roy needs to do something because three rookie defensive tackles are not laying down in competition to give him a roster spot.
Daurice Fountain, the former Colts wide receiver with the 35-yard boot pass for the TD. Nearly lost it but got the back side of the ball and held it through the process to the ground for a TD with 13:47 to play. Bears 17, Colts 7
Burns with a twisting lunging catch for the first down. Showing some skills. Not exactly the kind of work a fullback.
Bears are 14 of 21 for 93 yards passing. Kind of a limited game with players who have limits. That's why they are all third-stringers.

Third Quarter

Quarter ends with Bears at Colts 44.
Colts drive fails and the Bears are using Robert Burns as a backup running back. He's only about the size of a running back and not a fullback anyway. D'Onta Foreman is much bigger. Burns with a run and catch and the Bears face second down with 27 seconds left in the third quarter.
Kendall Williamson needed a better game at safety for the Bears and gave up a short pass for a first down to the tight end. Williamson had a good chance to be the fourth safety when off-season work started but hasn't done much. He could be behind A.J. Thomas if not Adrian Colbert.
Bears with 22 carries for 102 yards rushing which is a good sign because last week they were struggling to get a push with their second-team line. They've been all backups tonight and played well.
Drive dies on a Peterman overthrow but Cairo Santos connects from 50 right down the middle. Key play might have been the 6-yard run by Homer on second down because it got the extra 6 yards to make the kick easier. Bears 10, Colts 7
Some of the same offensive linemen are still in the game but Kellen Diesch is in at left tackle.
Bears facing third-and-3. And another bad spot by these jokers spotting the ball. But a QB sneak by Peterman gets the first down. His short pass to Stephen Carlson appeared to have the first down by half a yard. Just an abysmal spot.
Travis Homer now in at running back for Johnson.
The Colts return the favor and botch up a fourth-down gamble when Kenyan Drake slips on the turf on a run up the middle so the Bears take over at the Colts 48.

Noah Sewell with possibly his worst play since coming to the Bears in the fifth round of this year's draft. He has played a lot of downs and completely missed the tackle in the open field when he could have forced a punt.

For some reason, Nathan Peterman get to start the third quarter. He drove the Bears into Colts territory but a fourth-down pass to Nsimba Webster comes up a little short. It appeared he actually had it but the officials ruled he didn't make it and no one seems upset about it. It sure looked like he reached out with the ball past the yard to gain as he was on the turf and hadn't been touched.

Halftime

If not for the 13 of 15 they allowed passing to Minshew, the first half would have been considered a huge Bears success. Bagent is 9 of 10 for 76 yards.

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