Day: October 14, 2022

This past Thursday night football game wasn’t the greatest of all-time. We got to watch the Washington Commanders take on the Chicago Bears in what was a two-touchdown performance. It was the second straight week that Thursday Night football was incredibly boring. However, we got some excitement towards the end of the game when the Bears had an opportunity to win the game. Unfortunately, Darnell Mooney wasn’t able to hold onto the football when he was across the plain. He eventually fell out of the end zone as he finally gained possession, getting ruled down at the two-yard line and losing the game. 

Mooney was asked about the final play quite a lot after the game. He didn’t pull any punches when answering these questions. He said, “If I just catch the damn ball the first time, we win the game. At that period of time, I’m literally just telling myself, just please, give me this ball. Give me this ball. I just got to close the game for us. If I want to be that player, I want to be that guy for our team, I got to make that play.”  

It was an awful outing offensively for both teams, and there’s enough blame to go around for literally everybody that played last night. In my opinion though, Justin Fields should not be on the line for this loss. He overthrew a touchdown early on in the game, but still gave them a shot to close it in the end and threw a beautiful deep ball to give them seven. Fields had completed 14 out of his 27 passes for 190 yards and a touchdown with an interception. He did lead the team in rushing yards though with 88, something that he should be doing more often. 

Bears Coaching In Question As Well

Chicago’s head coach was asked about his development once again. He said, “I think he took a step forward. I really do. Because, the toughness. For me, the ability to take the ball and drive it down at the very end to give us a chance to win it, that’s to me what was the improvement. Ok? Were there other moments that we need to clean up and offense needs to clean up? Sure. But we had the drives down there and if we punch those in, the game’s a different game. That’s 21 points. So, for me, that was really inspiring to watch him do that at the very end, to take us down to win it at the very end. And again, we came up short. We’ve got to do a better job next time.”  

His head coach made sure to cover all the bases after the game. If Chicago would have been able to capitalize on their previous goal line opportunities, they would have certainly won the game by this point already. One thing that his head coach needs to realize though is that they need to design Fields more opportunities to shine. Look at guys like Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray and Jalen Hurts for example. They get designed plays to run the football and a chance to make plays, while Fields is pretty much just locked into a run first football scheme. It’s going to be interesting to watch how the Bears move forward after this.