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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Ep. 21: Bears fall to Giants as injuries pile up

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Alex Brown, Jim Miller and Dave Wannstedt discuss the Bears inability to close out games after falling to 2-8 with a loss to the New York Giants. Plus, with injuries to Leonard Floyd and Josh Sitton among others, who can Bears fans expect to see step up against the Tennessee Titans with a number of injury voids to fill? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome into the Bears Post game edition of our Bears Talk podcast as they fall to 2 and 8 on the season.

0:11.0

After the 2216 loss of the New York Giants alongside my partners on Bears Post Game Live and pregame live as well.

0:18.0

Alex Brown and Jim Miller.

0:20.0

I'm Chris Bowden.

0:26.4

A game very much for the taking after the Giants were able to go ahead on their opening two drives the second half.

0:29.7

It just sat there at 2216 for the remainder of the game.

0:34.1

Props for the defense for hanging in there after those two rough opening drives.

0:38.8

But I think a combination of injuries on the offensive line and being unable to run the ball, a big factor. And then once the Bears did get the ball back with about three and a half

0:43.4

minutes to go, on receiving the punt, a Prasinski penalty on the punt return, then after getting

0:51.5

down to the New York 43, a Larson hole. That sets them back 10 yards.

0:56.3

You make up 23 more yards on a pass to Josh Bellamy to get back to the New York 30, then

1:01.8

Cutler sacked for minus 14. And then there's a Cam Meredith illegal shift before the Landon

1:08.4

Collins interception that sealed it right there for the taking, but how much is this execution?

1:13.7

How much is it coaching?

1:14.7

How much of his injuries as well?

1:16.2

Just a hodgepodge of all out of the end.

1:17.6

Yeah, well, I think, you know, guys got to fill in all the time.

1:21.0

You know, we've seen starters that are losing their jobs around the National Football League right now,

1:24.7

i.e. an experienced guy like Tony Romo, a Dak Prescott,

1:27.7

basically. So it doesn't matter who's got to fill in there. You've got to make the plays

1:31.9

that matter. And for the bearers, at that point, what is there, five games they've been in or had

1:36.3

the lead coming out at a halftime, right, and they've lost three of them. Yep. So you've got to be able to finish. It was there for the taking. Defense bowed their neck. Offense had the ball.

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