5-3...Wheee!!!!
5-3...Wheee!!!!
Hey, Buffalo Bills, We Made You Ill, Buffalo Bills
November 4, 2018
The Chicago Bears Go To Buffalo and Come Home Better People
The Chicago Bears beat the Buffalo Bills 41-9 in Orchard Park, New York on Sunday to improve to 5-3 and in the process made no one in Buffalo regret having worn a Nathan Peterman mask for Halloween.
The Bears won with a merciless defense, an adequate offense, and a sense of urgency not seen in Buffalo since seen the best days of Ted Nolan.
The Bears "D" intercepted Peterman three times though those picks really weren't Peterman's fault as Buffalo's receivers often mistook this contest for a ping-pong match, battering that old football all over the place or dropping it like it was too hot to touch.
The Bears defense thus scored twice and so, really, didn't even need their offense.
That's good because Mitch Trubisky's crew was not great. Trubisky completed just nine passes for 135 yards and one touchdown in garbage time and Jordan Howard led the rushing attack with 47 yards, but did score two touchdowns including one in which he ran over a Buffalo defender decidedly, obnoxiously and repeatedly.
Entering this game some Bears supporters thought head coach Matt Nagy's team might actually overlook the hapless Bills but who the heck are the Bears - without a playoff appearance since 2010 - to overlook anybody except short people and Donald Sutherland?
Sutherland is from Canada and that's near Buffalo and the fact that Sutherland has never won an Oscar is embarrassing to Canada, Buffalo, the film industry and probably Elliott Gould, too.
OK, Donald did win an honorary Oscar this year but honorary Oscars are like hemorrhoids, everyone gets at least one eventually.
How good are the Bears? Certainly this is the best team they've put together since at least 2012 and when you consider Trubisky is still learning and Kyle Long, Khalil Mack and Allen Robinson are still hurt then, whoa brother maybe the Monsters of the Marvelous could be good enough to lose in the playoffs to the Saints, Rams, Panthers or Golden State Warriors.
But those are worries for another day. Like maybe tomorrow. The Bears have been more fun this season than the entire John Fox and Marc Trestman eras combined. They're flying to the ball, having fun playing loose, scoring points and winkin’ at the ladies.
It’s November and the Bears are still worth talking about. That’s worth writing about. And bears watching. --TK
Sunday, November 4, 2018