Bears and Jaguars Live Blog: Bears 35, Jaguars 16 4th

Reporitng and analysis in game as the Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears try for their third straight win in London against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Chicago Bears tight end Cole Kmet celebrates after scoring on a 31-yard touchdown reception against Jacksonville in London.
Chicago Bears tight end Cole Kmet celebrates after scoring on a 31-yard touchdown reception against Jacksonville in London. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
In this story:

Fourth Quarter

Former Pats QB Mac Jones is in to mop up with 3:21 left. Williams is 23 of 29 for 226 yards with four TDs, one interception, a 124.4 rating. Swift is at 91 yards.

  • Chip shot by Santos comes up short, looked like it was blocked after a high snap by Kmet.
  • Keenan Allen snares the slant with hands of glue. High throw perfectly placed for him. First down. Clock continues ruinning with a pair of Roschon Johnson runs for short yardage and Jaguars let the clock run. They have two timeouts left.
  • Jaguars use a timeout as a third-down run is fumbled by Swift but recovered by Jenkins short of the sticks by 3 yards. Fourth-down gamble? It's probably worth it here.
  • Swift with 3 yards, looked like he would get 7 or 8. For some reason they pass on second down and it's batted down. They should be running clock.
  • Khalil Herbert with the recovery on an onside kick attempt to set Bears up in good field position. At the 44 of Jacksonville.
  • The Bears defense won't want to give up that next TD so they can keep their streak alive. No one with more than 20 points in 11 straight games against them.
  • Gabe Davis catches a quick timing throw for the TD with Byard on his back and Jacksonville two-point pass is high leaving Bears well ahead. The Jaguars finally got their touchdown but the tradeoff is there is only 6:58 left. Bears 35, Jaguars 16
  • Blackwell bats down third-down pass at the goal line. Fourth-and-goal coming.
  • First down pass at the 6 to Kirk and then an incompletion. Clock is down to 7:11.
  • Easy TD pass to Thomas and the rookie drops the ball. He got open behind Byard and Blackwell but drop.
  • A fourth-and-1 run up the middle picks it up at the 29 of Chicago. Jacksonville continues throwing under the coverage and moving it while eating up clock. Now 8 minutes remaining.
  • Good play call, a screen, got the first down and took pressure off of Lawrence. Bears are playing back in zone and rallying to the ball. Jaguars at the Bears 36 and have third down. Long ball to Gabe Davis and he has half a step on Jaylon Johnson but can't haul it in.
  • Sweat badly held on the next play with no call and Lawrence throws it quickly for a deep incompletion. They're coming for Lawrence.
  • DeMarcus Walker on the sack. Sweat arrives and lends a hand but Walker should get that one.
  • Caleb now 22-of-27 for 218 yards with four TDs and one interception. A 124.5 passer rating. Swift needs 13 yards for his first 100-yard Bears game.
  • DJ Moore to the half-yard line on an end-around and the Bears have second-and-goal. Bears go big with Doug Kramer at fullback and Swift plows straight into the end zone. Bears 35, Jaguars 10
  • Caleb at the improv. Finds Cole Kmet for a big gain inside the 10 on the run when it looked like he was going to throw the ball away.
  • The Bear Raid Siren sounding in London! Appropriate. Chris Williams with his first Bears sack and it sets up Josh Blackwell for a pick on third-and-long on the next play. Tremaine Edmunds and Blackwell right there and Lawrence threw it short to Blackwell. Bears ball.
  • Four TD passes by a Bears rookie first time since Cade McNown in 1999 in a dual against Daunte Culpepper.
  • First play a lob to the corner and they're not taking this TD from Allen. Keenan Allen with the second foot down for the score. Perfect Kmet snap. Bears 28, Jaguars 10

Third Quarter

  • Power game taking over. Straight up the middle to the 8 by Swift, then he squirts through two tacklers to the 3 on first down as the quarter ends.
  • DJ Moore gets up with assistance from team medical people after being hit in the head and Jaguars are called for holding on a 2-yard completion. Bears have it at the 26. Darby again.
  • Williams wisely dirts a screen not setting up well and it's third-and-10 in field goal range.
  • Bears at the 31 after Swift breaks an 18-yard run around right end on a simple pitch. The line got out front and got it blocked and Swift made a rapid cut.
  • The sack is wiped out by 12 men on the field but it's still third down. Then Jacksonville gets caught hlolding, Ronald Darby as he obviously grabbed Keenan Allen.
  • Questionable play call, all the receivers but one deep and Williams get sacked as blocking breaks down for a loss of 4 on first down. A screen nets 6 and Bears face third-and-8 and Javon Walker sacks Williams.
  • Big Dog gets the first down and official looking right at it doesn't mark it a first down but they change it and give the Bears the first down on a 2-yard out.
  • Swift cuts back with a pitch right and gains 8. Well blocked. Could have had the first down.
  • From the 21, Lawrence scrambles and hits Gabe Davis for the TD with 6:02 left in the quarter. Gervon Dexter had his hands on Lawrence but couldn't reel him in and Elijah Hicks couldn't get over to Davis in time. Bears 21, Jaguars 10
  • Bigsby gets the first down but the Jaguars hold on first down run to the 5 and flags are biting Jacksvonville again. The hold was the block that made the run. Obvious call.
  • Lawrence getting in a groove and going no-huddle has it at the Bears 24 and Jaguars get a pass for 8 to Gabe Davis. Then a TD-saving PBU by Kevin Byard one on one in the end zone.
  • They pick on Jaylon Jones for a short third-down pickup. First time he has been a liability in coverage.
  • A terrible pass by Lawrence. He has Thomas wide open and he throws it so bad that T.J. Edwards has it his his back in trail coverage.
  • A 15-yard WR screen to Kirk. You have to wonder if they could have pulled that off against Gordon because they ran it right at Blackwell.
  • Another Bears DB off the field. Gordon hurt chasing Trevor Lawrence out of bounds on a 4-yard scramble. Josh Blackwell in.
  • Jaguars go to the run first and Bigsby gets just 2 against a risky Bears run blitz. They ran away from the blitz but still didn't get yardage.
  • Eberflus always talking about complementary football and it was the perfect execution of this as T.J. Edwards' Peanut punch was turned into a Bears TD.
  • Perfectly placed laser shot by Williams over the middle with Allen leaping and hauling it down at a point where no one else could get it. TD and another high Kmet snap but good enough like the kick. Bears 21, Jaguars 3.
  • Illegal shift against the Bears on TD pass to Keenan Allen. Third-and-goal from the 9.
  • Screen inside to the 8 by Swift. Perfectly set up and executed. Then a slant to Moore at the 4.
  • There it is. Keenan Mr. Third Down Allen. First down conversion to the Jaguars 24 and both Savage and Jarrian Jones are hurt for Jacksonville covering on the pass.
  • Only 2 yards on a Swift second-down run after no gain on a short pass to Swift and Bears face third-and-8. Definitely two-down territory.
  • First down long pass to Engram results in a fumble to the Bears but he might have been down. Replay shows Edwards got it out first before the knee hit. Bears' sixth fumble recovery. There's the Peanut Punch. Bears at the Jaguars 41.
  • Bears defense held Jaguars to 31 yards rushing in the first half. Return to the 33.
  • Williams 12 of 15 for 128 yards and two TDs with a pick for a 114.0 rating at halftime. Also the leading rusher in the game with 56 yards on 14 carries. Cole with four catches for 43 yards, two TDs and two kind of OK long snaps on PATs. They better get him back out there warming up on long snaps at halftime.

Second Quarter

  • They need a touchback here, no more 40-yard returns by the running back. They manage to get it done. Half ends.
  • Somehow the Jaguars leave the best red zone receiver wide open. Kmet with a TD catch and a high long snap but they get it down and kicked. Bears 14, Jaguars 3
  • Williams scrambles to the 2 but with 17 seconds left they have to use the last timeout. Can't have a sack now.
  • Keenan Allen surfaces on the slant in field goal range and Bears call a timeout. It was a tight window but Caleb drilled it in with 35 seconds left at the 24.
  • Caleb throws it away when no one is open . Needs to make that decision faster. He could have easily been sacked.
  • Rome Odunze for the first down on a pass over the middle at the Jags' 39. Similar to other gain he had but they defended it better.
  • Big scramble by Caleb to midfield and it's the TWO-MINUTE WARNING!!! He waited a long time for someone to get open, got hesitant but Darnell Wright took the edge rusher deep and in behind Caleb so it opened up the right side of the line for the scramble. Bears at their 49.
  • Swift burns around left edge for the first down and gets them out of a hole.
  • Swift takes a draw, a play the Bears used well in the past but doesn't wait for the blocking to form and runs right into the defense. The hole was opening if he had just waited.
  • DBs snuff out Engram on a tight end screen and the Bears get it back at their 15 after a punt. Defense delivers again to help out Caleb but that pick was really tough because it was a scoring opp.
  • Jaguars looking at third-and-3 from their 36 after the turnover and two runs.
  • Third and an inch and the Bears get greedy, try to throw deep and Moore gets open but is badly underthrown by Williams for the first interception made by a Jaguars player this year. Cisco on the pick.
  • Big catch to midfield by Rome Odunze over the middle, followed by a 9-yard gain on pass to Moore. Bears facing third-and-1 after Roschon couldn't get a yard off guard.
  • Another great play in the passing game by Roschon as he tips a high pass on a screen to himself and catches it before heading upfield for the first down. On his other one he avoided going down to the turf for 16 yards.
  • Coffin corner punt leaves Bears back at their 5 but Caleb RPO run gets it out to the 10. Swift gets stuffed on second down and it's a passing situation again.
  • Review overturns the fumble and says it's an incompletion. Jacksonville has it back and it's second down. The Bears defense stiffens and forces a three-and-out anyway,
  • The league leaders in recovering opponents' fumbles have done it again. Tremaine Edmunds knocks it out of Etienne's hands after a short catch and then recovers it himself. Bears ball. The Bears stressed this art of stripping the ball all offseason and training camp to complement how they led the league in interceptions last year. The Peanut Punch lives.
  • Tank Bigsby takes a kickoff back 41 yards after a terrible kickoff that was a line drive. It gave them plenty of time to get up the field.
  • That fake double screen was a play Waldron loved in Seattle. Except on the ones he ran in Seattle sometimes the actual pass is a middle screen and not a throw downfield. In that case it's a fake double scree and screen.
  • A 31-yard fake double screen and then over the middle to Kmet for the TD. Fake left to Keenan Allen and then he threw down to wide open Kmet, who ran over two defenders with 11:07 left in the quarter. And Kmet delivers the perfect long snap on the conversion. Bears 7, Jaguars 3.
  • Roschon Johnson on the screen for 16 and Bears have it at the Jags' 31. Very nearly went down.
  • Swift running harder now has 7 on first down with some good blocking on the left side but then on second down it totally caved in. Caleb should have pulled them out of that as the Jaguars had that side overloaded.
  • Caleb on the zone read slowly picks his way downfield for the first down behind a Kmet block.
  • Swift found the cutback. A big gain of 14. Then former Packers safety Darnell Savage holds DJ Moore. Just like he always did in Green Bay but he used to get away with it there. Pass interference puts the Bears at their own 35.
  • Cole doesn't really have a lot of confidence in his long snapping either. He was making fun of it once at practice.
  • Jaguars can't even get a punt off without false-starting. The Bears have lost long snapper Daly to injury and now they'll have to rely on Cole Kmet as a long snapper. Wow.

First Quarter

  • Byron Cowart and Gervon Dexter combined on a sack and Lawrence lets the quarter run out after dumping it down on third down. They weren't about to go for it. Didn't fool anyone. Jaguars 3, Bears 0
  • Again Engram with a first down completion as the pass rush can't be found. At the 35 of Jax.
  • Jaguars start from the 21 and Kyler Gordon gets a TFL on Travis Etienne. Shot in right away.
  • Bears facing third-and-7 and have to call a timeout. Then the pocket closes in on Williams and as he tries to throw, the ball hits Matt Pryor's facemask. Another botched drive and three-and-out. Bears are starting out like against the Texans and Colts. And they lost those games.
  • Caleb Williams throw on the boot pass to Cole Kmet needs to come out quicker because Kmet had more yards ahead then. Instead, a 5-yard gain. Then the scree to DJ Moore loses 2.
  • Six straight times the Bears have trailed first in games. Might want to change that once in a while. Just saying.
  • The Bears did a nice job of shutting down the run on the drive but the play-action pass froze them and they were giving up wide-open passes in the zone.
  • On third-and-goal from the 12 Davis has a TD but it's knocked out of his hands by Elijah Hicks. On replay, he's not catching it anyway. Jaguars settle for a 30-yard field goal by Little to end a 14-play drive. Jaguars 3, Bears 0
  • Another third-down conversion to the 9 on a pass to Kirk over the middle. Jaguars get jumpy again though and on first down receiver Gabe Davis false starts.
  • Jaguars face third-and-inches and a false start rescues the Bears at the 18.
  • The Jaguars set up a perfect wide receiver screen and Brian Thomas used the ground to catch the ball and gain 14 but no replay challenge. Someone should have challenged it.
  • Gordon whiffs on chance at a slot corner blitz sack and Lwrence scrambles to the Bears 40.
  • No pressure on Lawrence and he completes a pass to Evan Engram at midfield for a first down.
  • Kyler Gordon's stop at the line on a second-and-2 run goes for naught as Trevor Lawrence completes an out for the first down on a third-down conversion.
  • Bears punt. The first opponent of the Jaguars not to score a TD on the first drive in four games. That's just normal for the Bears, who haven't scored a TD on an opening drive.
  • D'Andre Swift on two runs to start the drive, didnt cut back on second down when he had at least 5 to 7 yards in front of him and wound up with only a few yards. Then Williams is sacked by former Bears lineman Roy Robertson-Harris.
  • Bears to receive the opening kick and even though it's a touchback they will start at the 25. Penalty for illegal formation on return.

Twitter: BearsOnSI


Published |Modified
Gene Chamberlain
GENE CHAMBERLAIN

BearDigest.com publisher Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.