🚨INSTANT REACTION: Bears Defense & Run Game DOMINATE Saints In 4th Straight Win

🚨INSTANT REACTION: Bears Defense & Run Game DOMINATE Saints In 4th Straight Win

The Bears have won four, count them, four games in a row for the first time since 2018 as they take down the Saints 26-4 in week seven to improve to 4-2 on the season. My name is Harrison Graham. This is our Chicago Bears now postgame show. Plenty to discuss, a lot of positives. Not a great day for the quarterback. We’ll get into that as well, but uh the vibes are high. I mean, four straight, four-2, Vikings lose, you leap frog them in the standings. Let’s get the Dubs in the chat, baby. They have not won four games in a row in seven years. We can nitpick some things and there’s certainly some of that that is worthwhile doing, but I mean, we’re just starving for wins here. So, to win four in a row, that’s uh that’s got me pretty fired up. Get the dubs down in the chat. So, 2614. Um again, we’ll get to Caleb as we go. really good game from the uh uh from the running aspect offensively. Swift had a huge day. So did Kyle Manungi who had a career kind of a breakout game for the seventh round rookie. But I think we got to give our flowers to the defense. This is the fourth straight game the defense has three or more takeaways. The Bears now lead the NFLs in takeaways, I believe, and they’ve played one less game than most teams. They’ve already had their by-week. Dennis Allen has this unit cooking. Spencer Rattler the first 28 minutes of the first half at one point he had negative7 passing yards. Now to his credit he heated up into that second quarter put together that 91 yardd drive started the third quarter had another drive had a couple other moments as well. The raw statline doesn’t look horrific but four turnovers should have been five. Kevin Bard had an interception and Nan Wright who was stuck in midair ended up clocking him. friendly fire, not on purpose. Obviously, that one was dropped, otherwise it would have been a fourth pick and a fifth turnover from Rattler. Uh Dennis Allen had him in jail for most of this game. Um they have seemingly fix the run defense at least the last two weeks. Alvin Chimera couldn’t get anything going. Kendre Miller did leave early with an injury. Uh so that is at least worth mentioning, but he only had one carry. Um the run defense as a whole today, 17 carries, 44 yards, that’s 2.6 average. Uh, that’s a dominant performance. And these two linebackers with TJ Edwards playing the mic, Tummaine Edmonds playing the Will, the opposite of what they did in the Matt Eberlu scheme. For two weeks now, it’s looked really, really good. Uh, TJ was able to deflect the ball up, which Tmaine picked off. They’re both shooting the gaps uh, in the run game. There was one play where Edmonds uh, picked the wrong lane and they were able to convert a a third down. But like you know throughout the course of playing 50 60 plays you’re not going to play a perfect game uh as a player. Uh the defense is playing really really well and I thought especially in the first half they were getting good pressure on Spencer Rattler. Montes Sweat had a strip sack early in the game uh after the Bears went three and out offensively. He strip sacks Rattler uh which uh created a turnover and three points for the offense. So good to see him flash early in the game. Dominique Robinson had a nice TFL. He’s flashing like on average every other week now. So, he’s playing pretty well, at least for what the expectations are uh this year up to this point. I thought Jaquan Brisker uh lit some people up a couple of times. Had an unfortunate roughing the passer, which you know, he’s trying to deflect the Rattler pass. He gets a roughing. Third and 26. I think that’s one of those if you’re Dennis Allen, like don’t even risk a penalty there. Just play coverage. Um, you know, if I’m gonna nitpick anything Dennis Allen did that play and the end in the start of the half, which coaches talk about all the time, the defense kind of got worked by the Saints offense, but other than that, just a dominant performance. And by the way, that’s with Tyreek Stevenson going out with a shoulder injury, did not return. That is something to monitor. Deshawn Wright was beat up at one point. He luckily came back into the game uh as well. Uh, so you were pretty thin at corner for for a good stretch there late in this game. And you know, Cullen and I on the watch party are like, man, you just got to survive here. You got to find a way uh to uh just get through this game and they were able to do it. Kevin Bard, guys, he is playing at an extremely high level. Extremely extremely high level. Had another pick. Should have been two again if Nan Wright and him don’t accidentally have a friendly fire situation. Uh couple breakups. He’s just all over the place. He looked old and slow the first couple weeks, but since that Raiders game, he’s been awesome. So, shout out to Kevin Byer. This defense, man, they’re going to give up some plays. That’s just kind of the way it’s designed. But, they are getting a lot of takeaways and a lot of opportunities at takeaways, which is really, really nice to see. And, you know, when the offense, especially the passing game, is not firing on all cylinders, it’s nice to uh to have the defense pick them up here in this one. All right, sub for Bears Dubs. That’s four in a row. Thank you guys so much. we cross 135,000 subscribers here on the channel. If you want free and daily Bears content, we are the channel for you. We’ll have an additional bonus video tonight for you guys since the Bear play Bears played in the noon window. So, be on the lookout for that. We’ll kind of take a deeper look at what happened today. So, hit that subscribe button. Coming up here in a second, we’ll take a look at the offense run game. Really good day. Not a great day for Caleb. That’s okay. We don’t need to hit the panic button, but uh we do have to evaluate these things. But do want to tell you guys first about our awesome sponsor, Prize Picks. You and I make decisions every day, but on Prize Picks, being right can get you paid. Don’t miss any of the excitement this season on Prize Picks, where it’s good to be right. I’ve missed my last couple lineups. I was hot, but now your boy’s gotten a little cold, but uh we’re going to get back on the saddle. We’re still up over $500 this season. And Price Pix has a cool feature. Follow other Price Pix players directly on the app and copy their lineups in one click. Whether it’s a friend, celebrity partner, or just someone whose picks you like, hit the follow button. Check out every lineup they create in the new feed tab on prize picks. The way prize picks works is simple. You pick more or less on two to six player lineups. And if you hit, you win money, sometimes up to 2,000 times your entry. That’s right, $10 can turn into 20,000. Had a four player lineup today. Uh I had more on Dwan Johnson and Luther Burton receiving yards. Those both hit, but uh Caleb Williams only threw for the one in the 150s. So really didn’t come close to hitting more on that. I also thought Alvin Chimera would have a few more stronger runs. Only had 28 yards, which hey, I’m thrilled about all good here, but took the more on that. Did not happen. Prizefix.com/ns. Download the Prize Pix app today. Use our code cls to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. That’s code cls to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Prize Pix, it’s good to be right. All right, let’s talk about the offense uh in this Bears 26-14 win. Uh we’ll talk about the quarterback first, then we’ll get to the run game. You know, just really early on in this game, just for whatever reason, the passing game has just been off. You had this Drew Dolman thing a couple of times where they get down deep in the red zone where it seems like Caleb’s not ready for the snap based on the cadence, but Dolman snapping it anyway. I’ll be curious to see what Ben Johnson is saying about that in the postgame press or maybe by the time you watch this there’s an explanation there. But uh that exchange was off a couple of times. Pre- snap penalties still were a problem today. I think they had four false starts. Um you know and Caleb a few times I thought he just tried to do too much. It kind of reverted back to rookie year Caleb because even this year when Caleb has not played his best. One thing he hasn’t tried to do too much is kind of the hero ball dance around. He did that on several occasions today. Now, you like that he can do that and keep plays alive. That’s a part of his arsenal, but it felt like it was too he tried to do it too much today. Um, and so, you know, Ben Johnson has said it’s not just going to be a linear improvement all season. There’s going to be bumps in the road. I would call today a bump. I I I thought the Saints did a good job of adjusting. You know, early on at times they would bring blitzes and Caleb, they showed a graphic on the screen. He was five for five against the blitz, seven for 17 against it at one point. So once uh uh the Saints kind of figured out, okay, if we drop seven, drop eight and can drive the pocket back a little bit with four, cuz they were doing I did not think the pass pro was nearly as good as the run blocking today. Uh he didn’t seem to uh to find the solutions, at least not often enough. So look, you only turn it over once. Rattler turn it over four games. In a game like this, that matters. You’ll take it. But this is this is like a coach’s dream, right? where you win by 12 fairly comfortably and you have a lot of teach tape and I would guess there’s a lot of teach tape for Caleb Williams today. Uh we’ll see if he can bounce back. No one’s hitting the panic button here. At least I’m not. I’m not spamming Beij in the chat like some of you guys are. But I think it’s also fair to say that this was not a very good performance for him. That’s just that’s just reality. And uh you know when you can do that in a 12-point win, that’s uh that’s very very nice. Okay, let’s talk about the running game now. uh just dominant. DeAndre Swift seems to be running with more intent. Uh I think he’s been more decisive on uh where the holes are and hitting those and obviously uh getting big chunks. 6 and a half average after 7.7 last week. That is excellent. Uh 23 long uh today on 19 carries for a buck 24. Uh you you feel good for this guy. This guy’s in the building at 5:45 in the morning every single day. That’s been well documented. Uh Ben Johnson has been thrilled with him and he did not waver with uh his evaluations of Swift. Even when the run game was strong, he was like, I don’t think this is a Swift problem. He he felt like that just the timing of the plays, the offensive line. And you know, I said it even though I thought Swift wasn’t super decisive early in the year. I thought the pass bro was better than the run blocking. And now that’s kind of flipped a little bit. So hopefully it can all click at the same time uh moving forward here. But really good stuff from Swift. And we got to shout out uh Cullen Brown’s first draft crush, Kyle Manungi. 13 carries, 81 yards, first career touchdown, had a long of 24. Him and Swift combined for 205 yards on 32 carries. Really good stuff. He’s dragging defenders, physical. He’s also got enough juice you can run outside the tackles with him as well. Uh caught a checkdown at one point. So, uh, really nice breakout performance from him, uh, in a game where running the football was going to be pivotal because of the pass game clunkiness, I’ll call it. So, really nice to see those two get going today. And, uh, look, the only negative is the pass game game wasn’t firing on all cylinders today, but it was still enough good enough, especially in terms of ball control, not putting the ball in harm’s way very often, uh, to come out with a win again a team that has been very scrappy. They smoked the Giants a couple weeks ago. They’ve been in a lot of one-sore games. This game never got down to one score in the fourth quarter. So, uh, overall many more positives than negatives as the Bears have won four in a row. It’s going to ramp up a little bit now. You got two road games against the Ravens who, yes, they’re one and five, but Lamar’s coming back, Roan’s coming back with the Steelers losing the other night. They are going to empty the tank next week coming out of the by-week. This is a tough spot. They’re coming off a buy, getting some guys healthy. Um, you know, I I would be pretty confident that the Ravens are going to be a betting favorite in this. Uh, so who you got? Chi for the Bears, BAL for the Baltimore Ravens. If the Bears can go into Baltimore and win this game, I don’t care what their record is, that would be really really impressive because Baltimore needs this game a lot more than the Bears do. Who would who would have thought that, by the way, when the schedule came down or came out that the Ravens need this game much more than the Bears do? And hey, that’s a testament to the Bears, but also uh to where the Ravens are at this point in the season. All right, Bears 26, Saints 14. There’s my wrap-up show as Chicago again, fourth straight victory. They improved to 4-2. And I can’t remember if I said this, but the Vikings lost. So, they fall to three and three after their loss to Philadelphia. So, Bears leaprogged them in the standings. Uh Packers and Cardinals just kicked off and the Saints play the Bucks tomorrow night. So, who knows? If they get a little more help, uh I think technically they could actually be in first place. uh when we wake up on Tuesday, which would be crazy to say. We’ll see what happens. Hit that subscribe button and as always, bear down.

Chicago Bears vs. New Orleans Saints Instant Reaction: Dennis Allen gets revenge on the Saints as the Bears defense dominated with 4 takeaways from Spencer Rattler. Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/CLNS and use code CLNS and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Caleb Williams mostly struggled as he threw for just 172 yards and an interception. Luckily, Ben Johnson has solved the run game woes as D’Andre Swift rushed for 124 yards and 1 TD while Kyle Monangai had 81 yards and 1 TD as well. The Bears rushed for 222 yards on 5.6 yards per carry as a team. Chat Sports host Harrison Graham brings you today’s Bears-Saints post game show.

Bears Box Score & Stats:
– Caleb Williams: 15/26, 172 YDS, 1 INT, 61.7 RTG
– D’Andre Swift: 19 CAR, 124 YDS, 1 TD; 1 REC, 14 YDS
– Kyle Monangai: 13 CAR, 81 YDS, 1 TD
– DJ Moore: 3 REC, 43 YDS
– Rome Odunze: 2 REC, 31 YDS
– Tremaine Edmunds: 9 TKL, 1 INT
– Tyrique Stevenson: Left with injury
– Cole Kmet: Left with injury

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