Bears and Packers In-Game Blog

Live updates and analysis with an in-game blog on the Bears game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football as Chicago tries to end a five-game losing streak to Aaron Rodgers.

• INT and Packers kill the clock. Packers 45, Bears 30
• Khalil Herbert with the onside kick recovery and Bears on the march after a completion to Damiere Byrd. Packers put a halt to it with a Preston Smith sack and 1:07 remaining. Beat Jenkins.
• Cairo Santos pulls the Bears back within two scores. Packers 45, Bears 30
• Jenkins with another penalty, this a false start, after pair of first downs.
• Davante Adams completes a 71-yard drive over 8:38 and 13 plays with a 3-yard TD catch against Jaylon Johnson. Johnson faked completely off balance. Packers 45, Bears 27
• Packers working on clock with Dillon running and short passing. Tashaun Gipson with a gutsy tackle on 250-pound back. 
• An awful call against the Bears on a muffed punt they recovered. Kindle Vildor called for not coming right back to the playing field after running off of it. He did come right back in on the replay. Someone with a vivid imagination on the officiating crew.
• Shanked punt gives the Bears better field position at the 27 as quarter ends. Packers 35, Bears 27
• Crawford has a concussion and Peters an ankle injury. Bears are actually lining up Eddie Jackson in the slot. Trevis Gipson with a sack of Rodgers. On third-and-5 at the Bears 49 Rodgers overthrows Lazard and Bears finally force a punt. 
• Fields risks his rib injury with a jump pass as Kenny Clark hits him. Incomplete and Bears punt again. 
• Bears can't run a play without a penalty flag now and they flag Teven Jenkins again, this time for holding on a wide receiver screen. It's a tough spot for him but you have to wonder what all these people were thinking whining that he wasn't playing when they had a perfectly good tackle in Jason Peters.
• Herbert tiptoes and stops on the return, gets nailed and fumbles but Cole Kmet recovered it. This is a real problem for Herbert both on returns and on running plays. He doesn't hit it hard.
• The Bears defense is unable to stop run or pass in this game and there's not much else they are asked to do.
• Mason Crosby from 20 yards. Packers 38, Bears 27
• Packers face fourth-and-goal at the 2 and bring in field goal team with a chance to make it a two-score game.
• Lazard takes a jet sweep for a first down and then Artie Burns gets flagged for a late hit. First down at the 8.
• Rodgers gets it to Marcedes Lewis for 12 on first-and-20 to the Bears 30.  DeAndre Houston-Carson injured on the play. 

• Rodgers to Adams, it's like playing catch now against this porous and depleted Bears secondary.

• Pat O'Donnell punt is low and short and Packers have good field position in Bears territory at the 48.

• On third-and-6 at their own 12, Fields gets away from two pass rushers but underthrows wide open Jimmy Graham.

• Holding sets Bears back to the 8 and their running game now is no longer working. It's not easy when you take a tackle playing as well as Jason Peters was out of the lineup.

• Packers score on first play with a 23-yard pass from Rodgers to Jones. Packers 35, Bears 27

• Strip sack by Preston Smith as Teven Jenkins was beaten and was holding.  Packers ball at Bears 22. Jenkins looked horrible on the play. Preston Smith was even chipped by Jimmy Graham first and Jenkins didn't even get a block on him.

• Bears defense looked passive the entire drive. Played on their heels and got blown off the ball by the running game. If they are going to play defense that way the rest of the game then the offense is going to need 45 points.

• Dillon plunges for a yard. Then Aaron Jones in for the TD. Nine plays, 75 yards. Packers 28, Bears 27

• Another Dillon power run up the middle this to the 4-yard line. 

• Rodgers picks Bears apart, throws short to Scantling and he runs for the first down to the 14.

• Dillon lows for 8 off left tackle.

• Bootleg pass to Adams, who had gone in motion and it's first down at the Bears 32.

• Packers at their 41. Rodgers hits Adams for a first down out of bounds to the Bears 47.

• Dillon bowls over Tashaun Gipson and goes for 11 to 36, then for a first down.
• The punt return for 97 broke the team record of 95 yards set by Johnny Bailey against Kansas City Dec. 29, 1990.

Second Quarter

• With 5 seconds left, the Bears send in Cairo Santos for a 44-yard field goal try.  Bears 27, Packers 21.

• Then Fields scrambles again to the 29 with 10 seconds left.

• Fields scrambles for the first down after Preston Smith beat Teven Jenkins and put on pressure from behind. All the way to the Packers 32.
• Crawford leaves the field with an injury. Bears will be leaning on Marqui Christian or maybe DeAndre Houston-Carson at nickel.

• Herbert breaks one on the kick return against the 23rd ranked kick return unit all the way to the Bears 42 with 38 seconds left.

• Eddie Jackson might have been able to tackle Adams on the play but Crawford not only couldn't cover Adams but took Eddie out on the play.

• Rodgers hits Adams with Crawford trying to cover him for a TD with 44 seconds left. A 75-yard drive in 48 seconds. Bears 24, Packers 21

• Rodgers hits Lazard for a first down to Bears 38 with 51 seconds left.'
• The worst punt coverage in the league strikes again for Packers. This time Grant fields it at the 3 and is trapped, goes around left end for 97-yard touchdown.  Bears 24, Packers 14
• Davante Adams and Jaylon Johnson shoving on third-and-4 incompletion. Adams should have been flagged for offensive interference.

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