W8vsSD: Got to finish

   The return of the infamous "doink" should have felt like a bad omen from the moment it happened, especially to Matt Nagy who got spooked and left the game in the right foot of his not so established kicker instead of trusting his offense to get him a few yards closer. Of course all of this could have been prevented if not for bad red zone plays and one really bad defensive series by the Bears.

   Mitchell Trubisky played better in this game but had a ball get picked because he got played by the corner and on the next drive pressure got to him and lost the ball for another turnover. The interception is was makes Trubisky not great, the fumble was bad luck by his part, this could change with what he showed at the end of the game when he finally remembered he is a good runner and a dangerous one at that, one can not deny that Trubisky took a step back from last year but one thing he still can do very well and was an issue on his first year, he wasn't good coming back from games. On the final drive he got the ball where they could win the game and could have made it on the previous drive after they got the PI on Allen Robinson II but on 2nd and 7 they ran a run play that left the MLB unblocked and Montgomery looking lost for a loss of 3 yards, then went for a long pass that only got destroyed by Joey Bosa who was giving Bobby Massie a though time all game, maybe getting another blocker on him would have been a good idea. Finally the run game showed it had a pulse letting rookie David Montgomery chunk up big gains for 135 yards and it could have been more if they stuck with the run a bit more in some occasions, what will matter now is that they keep doing it.

   The defense played a good game that got stained by one drive, where Phillip Rivers threw a long ball to Mike Williams that should have been defended or maybe even picked by Eddie Jackson but played it to soft and got beat by Williams by going up for the rebound, this followed by a long run by Melvin Gordon braking tackles in route to the end zone. The other score was after Trubisky's fumble at Bears territory but the first score was what bothered me, its not the first time this season that the Bears defense gives a big long pass, basically they play against this type of plays to not happen. This hurt the Bears to lose this game basically because the team still is depending on the defense to play solid.

   Then there is special teams, Eddie Piñeros doink was a thing of horror for fans, then came the final play where Nagy decides that the ball is close enough for Piñero to kick it in for the win, despite having 40 seconds in the clock with a time out worried that the offense could lose yards or lose the ball. This goes against everything Nagy told the media last year once Cody Parkey started struggling where he basically said that the offense goes for touchdowns not field goals, so what changed here? Piñero isn't a veteran, he hasn't even kicked in Chicago not even for an entire season, so where did this trust on the kicked and not on the offense that was all fired up at that time come from? It made no sense to me.

   The Bears played a sloppy game all around but they had the opportunity to win that game and build on it, instead it slips through their fingers (or toes?) and now their back to finding themselves out of a hole that is getting deeper. Today to win against the Eagles in Philadelphia will be no easy task, they have been there before and didn't make it. The Bears record is almost at win or go home time, they can still lose a pair of games and still have a shot at the post season but they have to show improvement or they are only kidding themselves.