W6@MIA: Really?

   What a weird game this one turned out to be, the Bears offense and defense couldn't get it together for a full half and both ended up collapsing in the 4th quarter to a conservative offense led by none other than Brock Osweiler who ended up beating the Bears... again... for the third time.

   It started off slow with both offenses not being able to move the ball much, if it weren't for an iffie roughing call on Leonard Floyd (which he got fined for which is stupid, one thing is wanting to protect the QB and another is not even watching that the hit wasn't even serious but still charged meaning this is for discipline reasons what makes this a stupid move, add up it cost almost double the fine for the semi pile driver on Danny Amendola, meaning the cost is just because it was against the QB, stupid) the Dolphins would have been trying a field goal, instead they get close enough to get the touchdown. The offense lost the chance to get it tied after the half but Jordan Howard ended up coughing the ball near the goal line. Starting the second half, Mitch Trubisky and company remembered they where good enough to beat this Dolphins defense and scored touchdowns on three consecutive drives while the defense only allowed two field goals. Then entering the 4th quarter is where insanity hit, the Bears going for their 4th consecutive score where called for another iffie penalty on Trey Burton for a pass interference which overturned the touchdown. The next play on 1st and goal ended up being a Trubisky interception in the end zone which would end up being very costly, Trubisky played a good game but this mistake took away points, at least a field goal. The Dolphins never abandoned the short pass and screen game because Osweiler, but with a tired Bears defense due to the hot weather or because of the bye week, which ever the reason was they ended up breaking down allowing two touchdowns on catches of less than 10 yards that got taken for more than 40 yards to the house, this was possible by bad tackling and horrible angles taken by the defense especially by Eddie Jackson, who on both plays was in position to make the saving tackle. If you are going to allow them to take the short pass because Osweiler isn't good with the deep throws then you have to tackle, if you don't then this was bound to happen especially with all the small speedy receivers the Dolphins have. Aside that Osweiler isn't good throwing deep, the game plan was obviously to get rid of the ball fast to eliminate the rush and when the Bears took the lead I wonder if Vic Fangio challenged the Dolphins to go deep and cover the short to intermediate zone more tightly, it didn't help that they played the run poorly almost the entire game and couldn't take advantage of the lead to take away this part of their game plan. The Bears then had a chance to end the game in regulation with a late score but Tarik Cohen fumbled the ball near midfield and the Dolphins ended up being in good field position but finally got plugged by the defense. So to OT we go and the Dolphins went marching in to the Chicago 1 yard line where they ended up fumbling the ball, recovered by the Bears in the end zone. Then there go the Bears rumbling to the Dolphins side of the field with two big run plays by Howard, then they keep running the next three plays, not getting enough for the first down. I understand that the run plays where working but there was no reason to get conservative here or even worse there was no imagination on these plays, just running straight trough the gut of the line and just hoping the hole was going to be there when on the entire game there was only one run that went for more than 7 yards and it was a Cohen draw play, I would have expected an option play that would have more chances of getting the yards needed to make Cody Parkey's kick easier to make, because of course he missed it from 53 yards away. I really expected him to miss it because why not? If I'm Matt Nagy I would be thinking I need to get this ball inside the 30 yard line to have a chance, because I have the players to get the ball to that range and I don't have a reliable kicker from 50 and over. So Parkey misses it and Jason Sanders doesn't.

   The Bears blew this game, they had the better team but the turnovers just were to much for them to handle. The defense did let the Dolphins run game get the best of them but other than that it was the two touchdown passes that killed them. It was a crazy game that went the Dolphins way, it was like 85 when that deflected pass ended falling in the hands of a Dolphins receiver for a first down on OT, I couldn't help myself but just laugh at how this game was turning out to be, the two teams got their chances and at the end of the day the Dolphins took the advantage and took the win.

   Speaking of 85, next up New England goes for a visit. Its hard o believe the Bears will end up winning this one but if the Dolphins game tells you something is that anything can happen. The Bears are going in to this match almost intact while the Patriots are going Gronkless, this should be an advantage but Fangio cant get confident and will need to be ready for every player that Tom Brady will have on the field. If the game against Miami taught the Bears something is that the Patriots can play the short passing game as well as the Dolphins and Brady is more than capable of throwing deep if he gets the chance. What I expect from the Bears offense is to not hold back and get as creative and aggressive as possible, if you are going down then go down with style.