The Bears were up 2 scores.
They lost because they couldn’t stop Detroit from scoring 2 touchdowns in 2 minutes.
You can blame Eberflus for his defensive play calling, but this is ridiculous “hindsight is 20/20” bullshit.
When you are the only one having this take, you really need to think “Am I wrong? or is Every other person wrong?”
Because the fact of the matter is, if Dan Cambell had been in that 4th and 1, he would have put his offense on the field to try and put the game away. Being up by 9, a TD pretty much seals the win, a FG opens a window for them to make a comeback.
Then up by 12, you go into prevent defense. The defense had been balling out all game and instead of staying aggressive you go into a cover/prevent defense and Goff carves it up in under 1.5 min scoring a TD and bringing them within 5.
Next series you run 2 predictable up the center runs, when the Lions had been stacking the box with everything but their corners for the whole second half. You predicatively get stuffed and need a home-run play to get the First Down to ice the game. Instead you have to punt.
You once more fall back into your cover/prevent defense and once more the Lions ram it down your throat, scoring a TD and leaving around 24 seconds left on the clock.
Now you are down by 2, need a FG, and have to drive the whole field in 24 seconds…
This loss is not on the players, could they have done better? Yes, Scott could have kept running and catch the ball, Fields could have thrown a better deep ball earlier to DJ for a second TD, JJ could have had a pick 6 and another pick. But hell the players played very good against a good team for 56 min, and the coaching was good for 56 min. But the coaching staff sucked and played conservative for 4 min and lost the game.
The Bears were up 2 scores. They lost because they couldn’t stop Detroit from scoring 2 touchdowns in 2 minutes. You can blame Eberflus for his defensive play calling, but this is ridiculous “hindsight is 20/20” bullshit.
When you are the only one having this take, you really need to think “Am I wrong? or is Every other person wrong?”
Because the fact of the matter is, if Dan Cambell had been in that 4th and 1, he would have put his offense on the field to try and put the game away. Being up by 9, a TD pretty much seals the win, a FG opens a window for them to make a comeback.
Then up by 12, you go into prevent defense. The defense had been balling out all game and instead of staying aggressive you go into a cover/prevent defense and Goff carves it up in under 1.5 min scoring a TD and bringing them within 5.
Next series you run 2 predictable up the center runs, when the Lions had been stacking the box with everything but their corners for the whole second half. You predicatively get stuffed and need a home-run play to get the First Down to ice the game. Instead you have to punt.
You once more fall back into your cover/prevent defense and once more the Lions ram it down your throat, scoring a TD and leaving around 24 seconds left on the clock.
Now you are down by 2, need a FG, and have to drive the whole field in 24 seconds…
This loss is not on the players, could they have done better? Yes, Scott could have kept running and catch the ball, Fields could have thrown a better deep ball earlier to DJ for a second TD, JJ could have had a pick 6 and another pick. But hell the players played very good against a good team for 56 min, and the coaching was good for 56 min. But the coaching staff sucked and played conservative for 4 min and lost the game.