Chicago Bears vs Cincinnati Bengals | Week 9 Game Preview

Chicago Bears vs Cincinnati Bengals | Week 9 Game Preview

Cincinnati Bengals back at home coming off a painful loss to a team that hadn’t won a game. Bear down feeling just as sick to their stomachs after they had their four-game win streak snapped to a third string quarterback. Wide open touchdown. Snoop Huntley with a celebration. So much for both these teams to try and clean up and both still have plenty of motivation to try and tidy up. Let’s start with a positive. Bengals offense has been good for 30 plus points back-to-back weeks. 33 versus Pittsburgh followed by 38 versus New York. 4 for9 on third down. Three for four inside the red zone. Flaco on the caper. Flaco touchdown. Joe Flacco still icy hot. 100 plus rating on the back of two touchdowns without being picked off. Two plus TDs in all three of his Bengals starts. No picks. 100 plus rate backto-back games. 40-year-old 66 245 lb dad quarterback. Now he goes after a Bears secondary that was missing three starting corners. Though Jaylen Johnson hasn’t been part of the picture since week one, Bears DBs gave up a 116 rating to Tyler Huntley on 17 of 22 passing, 8 1/2 yards per attempt allowed, a touchdown, no picks. You’re seeing that comfortability. He floats that one just over the outstretched arm of TJ Edwards. Bears now giving up a 98 rating. 7.8 yards per attempt. Only two teams allowing more per try in 2025. 51 yards allowed to Rashad Baitman. 63 to Z Flowers. And now here comes T and Jamar. Chase with a team high 91 yds versus the Jets. Oh boy. And here’s Chase. Open green grass in front of him. Just lethal. It was a Marsha Marsha Marsha game to the extreme. Jamar targeted 19 times versus the Jets. No one else saw four in that game. Higgins the jan of the bunch with just two targets with just two catches, but he made one count for a 44 yd touchdown. Put some air under it deep down the field. Higgins wide open for the touchdown. Higgins has scored in three of his last four. And the Cindy of the bunch 41 yards last week. Noah Fant 40 plus yards backto-back games. Little sidearm delivery gets it to Fence who’s putting together a nice day for the Bengals. Bears with two sacks of Huntley on 22 pass attempts. Only have 14 all year. Flaco only took one sack on 34 week eight pass attempts. Hasn’t been sacked three plus times yet. His line also doing it up in the run game lately, too. 181 rush yards last week. Sami Perine 94 yards, 10.4 per carry, and a TD. The Cincinnati Bengal offensive line just just clear it out. And Chase Brown coming in hot. 73 yds, 6.1 a carry. Also painted it orange. Bengals once again in business. Here they go. Brown boy, they are carving up this Jets run defense. That’s three in a row. Browns popped for 4.7 or better. Why not make it four in a row? Chicago’s now giving up 5.3 a carry overall. Only two teams worse. Bears gave up two touchdowns, 71 yards to Derk Henry, 43 yards and 10.8 per try to Katon Mitchell on four attempts. 53 yds to Huntley. So, not a good day versus the run, which fits their Peter Griffin body of work. Bounces it out and back and just finds wide open highway all the way to the pylon. But what would all of that been had Chicago been up 14 to0 at the end of one quarter instead of 6 to0? Chicago still waiting for Caleb Williams to play the role of gamechanging quarterback. Lots of yards last week, but no touchdowns, a 77 rate, got picked off. Williams has time downfield. Intercepted and the Ravens come up with the big play. Caleb’s rating under 83 of his last four games, INTs in three of his last four, and only two TDs in that span. The team last week one for three in the red zone. They keep kicking field goals in spots they need to be scoring touchdowns in. Williams searching, throwing, incomplete, game over. Yeah, bizarre. Now, that was their first game under 21 points. Had hit at 25 plus during their four-game win streak. Two of those wins though could have easily gone the other way. The narrative and feeling surrounding Williams would be much different if they were sitting at 2 and five. And Baltimore’s defense and secondary had made everyone look like a superstar up until last week. So is Cincinnati’s though. So another crack at it for Caleb. Boy, he thought about it. Now tosses to the end zone and he’s got Taylor. Bengals defense gave up 39 points in three quarters to a Jets team that hadn’t scored a touchdown in nine straight quarters. They’ve given up 27 plus points in every week saved week one. Justin Fields was on the bench after back-to-back horrendous showings. Then the Bungle secondary gives up a 99 rate to him on 240 plus yards. Didn’t pick him off. Let him lead a dramatic comeback. Fields does indeed look right. Goes towards the end zone. It is caught. Their play against the pass in 2025 as bad as Chicago’s. And they don’t have a pass rush, especially without Trey Hendrickson, who tried to go last week but got hurt again. didn’t sack Fields once on 32 pass attempts, only hit him once. He’s a guy that took nine sacks in one game a few weeks earlier. Look at how much time in a critical down that Justin Fields has. No panic. Be calm. Caleb only took one sack in their loss. Didn’t face much pressure. That wasn’t his problem. And neither was Roma Dun who went for 115 yards. He’ll throw it. It’s complete for a first down. Romo Dun DJ Moore racked up 73. Williams step and throw and he hits his man over the middle DJ Moore. No one else with 40 yards. Rookie tight end Coloulston Lovelin a career-high 38 cuz Cole KT was out hurt. DeAndre Swift 26 receiving yards, 45 on the ground with a score. Bears finally get the touchdown they’ve been looking for all day. Swift had carried their offense in their last two wins with 100 plus rush yard games. Bengals defense gave up 133 yards to Bree Hall on 7.4 four per carry, two touchdowns. Also gave up a 50-yard run to Isaiah Davis, giving up 254 rush yards, 6.9 a run to the Jets overall. When you factor in how New York’s offense looked coming in, it makes Cincinnati’s defensive showing one of the worst you’ll ever see. Back to the ground game. This is Hall. The shiftiness. Hall’s got a first down and more. Rubber match time. These two teams tied at six all time. Bears on a three-game win streak versus the Bengals. Let’s hope they recreate their 1992 meeting in some form or fashion. The blocking the 10 and the five in the end. Touchdown. Darren Lewis helped the Bears build a 21-7 lead, but Chicago mistakes gave the Bengals every opportunity to scratch back. Still his feet at the five. Touchdown Cincinnati. Great second effort by Paul. 15 to the 25. Twice the Bears built 14-point leads and twice the Bengals came back and with a minute to go they had a lastditch chance to tie looking throwing into the end zone and tipped in the air. Caught placed down and booted. It’s high enough. It’s deep enough. It’s gone. That’s it. It’s all over. Hey, hey, hey.

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