When asked what he tells quarterback Caleb Williams after he has an interception-ridden string of possessions, Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson said, “We get back on the horse and keep going.”
In a game where the Bears did more than enough to lose, they kept getting back on the horse and going, all the way to the last drive, when Caleb Williams found Colston Loveland for a 38-yard catch-and-run that set up a Cairo Santos game-winning 38-yard field goal.
As I sat here this evening and tried to flesh out my thoughts for this one and make sense of a win that featured five turnovers by the Bears offense, I remembered a conversation that I had with my colleagues Luis Medina and Matt Rooney on the Bleacher Nation Bears podcast before Week 1, where we went over the schedule. When we landed on tonight’s game, it felt like a back-and-forth affair in the making. I even went back to my schedule predictions post, and I felt the same way, with the Bears winning 28-24.
Turns out, I was one point off for the Bears and, admittedly, four interceptions for Williams. But what I didn’t foresee, and I’m probably not alone, is Chicago winning a game in which Williams played the way he did for much of the game, and the defense doing the heavy lifting until the final drive.
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FULL STORY: Back on the Horse: How the Bears Survived Five Turnovers to Beat the Bucs (via Patrick K. Flowers)
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