Fast Recap: Bears drop opener to visiting Packers
The Bears opened the season in disheartening style Sunday at Warrior Field, losing to the opponent Green Straight Packers 38-20.
The Bears followed 7-6 late in the principal half before the Packers scored 17 unanswered focuses to take a 24-6 second from last quarter lead. After the Bears slice the shortage to 24-14 late in the period, Green Straight scored two scores in a :56 range to ice the game.
"Everyone in the storage space's disheartened in that result," said mentor Matt Eberflus. "This damages. This is a division rival. Every one of the folks in there are wiped out to their stomachs, every one of the mentors, everyone, and that is not something that you like. Be that as it may, we additionally know it's the main game and we must improve. We need to move along."
Justin Fields finished 24 of 37 passes for 216 yards with one TD, one capture and a 78.2 passer rating. He likewise scrambled for a game-high 59 yards on nine conveys, lost a bobble on a scramble and was sacked multiple times.
The Bears offense committed five punishments in the game, three premature moves and two for holding. Those miscues slowed down drives and restricted the offense to a 23.1 percent achievement rate on third down (3 of 13).
"We put ourselves behind on offense a lot of times, and I feel that is the reason the third downs were not what they expected to be," Eberflus said. "We must get that tidied up on the grounds that that is something you can improve by being focused and not having those punishments. Last year we were third in the association in punishments so we can tidy that up. That is correctable."
Making simply his subsequent vocation start, Packers quarterback Jordan Love associated on 15 of 27 passes for 245 yards with three TDs, no turnovers and a 123.2 passer rating.
Green Narrows running back Aaron Jones scrambled for 41 yards on nine conveys and one score and got two passes for 86 yards and one TD prior to leaving with a hamstring injury. Beneficiary Romeo Doubs had four gets for 26 yards and two TDs.
The Bears turned the ball over on downs on the game's initial belonging as Fields was halted for no increase on a fourth-and-1 quarterback sneak at the Chicago 40.
The Packers capitalized on the brilliant field position, taking a 7-0 lead on Adoration's 8-yard score pass to Doubs on third-and-objective with 6:08 left in the principal quarter.
The Bears replied by walking to the Green Straight 31. In any case, after consecutive premature move punishments slowed down the drive, they agreed to Cairo Santos ' 47-yard field objective, slicing the shortfall to 7-3 late in the initial period.
After the guard constrained the Packers to go three-and-out, Santos' 29-yard field objective managed the edge to 7-6 with 9:00 leftover in the subsequent quarter. Fields supported the drive with a splendid 10-yard scramble on third-and-7. D'Onta Foreman followed with a 11-yard run and DJ Moore got passes of 11 and 14 yards.
"We had a mood getting going early," Fields said. "Yet, I think the lesson of the story is we messed ourselves up so often: pre-snap punishments, premature moves, property. We put ourselves in third-and-long. Changing over on that for a NFL offense is hard. I suppose in the event that we simply tidy that up and continue to improve, we'll be fine."
Green Cove stretched out its lead to 10-6 on Anders Carlson's 52-yard field objective as time lapsed in the main half. The kick came after Yannick Ngakoue enrolled his most memorable sack as an individual from the Bears, dropping Affection for an eight-yard misfortune.
The Packers opened the final part with an eight-play, 75-yard drive covered by Jones' 1-yard score run, stretching out their lead to 17-6. The critical play on the drive came when Love floated on his left side and tossed a screen pass back to the right to Jones, who hustled down the sideline for 51 yards to the Bears' 7.
After the Bears went three-and-out, the Packers extended the edge to 24-6 on Affection's 35-yard TD pass to Jones on fourth-and-2.
The Bears then, at that point, serious the game's most memorable turnover as Fields was stripped by protective tackle Kenny Clark on a scramble and security Rasul Douglas recuperated the mishandle at the Chicago 18. Be that as it may, the protection constrained a Packers dropkick.
The Bears slice the deficiency to 24-14 late in the second from last quarter as Fields lobbed a 20-yard score pass to Darnell Mooney in the right corner of the end zone, and Khalil Herbert followed with a fruitful two-point transformation run up the center.
However, the Packers addressed promptly as Adoration covered a fast five-play, 61-yard drive with a 4-yard TD pass to Doubs, extending the lead to 31-14. The TD came after Affection associated with completely open tight end Luke Musgrave for 37 yards to the Bears 4.
Handles then, at that point, tossed an ignore the center that was captured by linebacker Quay Walker, who returned the pick 42 yards for a TD to make it 38-14.
The Bears added a late TD on Roschon Johnson's 2-yard run with 2:54 leftover.
The Bears have now lost nine directly to the Packers, keep going winning on Dec. 18, 2018, at Officer Field when they secured the NFC North with a 24-17 triumph.
"It sucks," Fields said. "Contention, Week 1, conflicting with the Packers, I mean it sucks. No one's feeling great. This one damages, I won't deceive you. It most certainly sucks, yet at the end of the day, got to check the master plan out. We have 16 games to go in the standard season. We have a great deal of space to improve, a ton of space to develop. Furthermore, I feel that is the thing we will do however long as we keep that uplifting perspective, keep our mindset, continue to push for significance every single day.
"We'll be fine, however it certainly harms — not just in light of the fact that it's the primary round of the time and it's a misfortune, yet it's a misfortune to [the Packers]. I simply need to express sorry to partners, every one of the fans that were pulling for us. However, we'll return quickly, we'll be great."
Comments
Post a Comment