Who says the Bears aren't all that Swift?

Amazing how running plays you can actually execute helps

You could be forgiven if your feeling at halftime yesterday was that the Bears hadn’t learned anything and were never going to learn anything. Despite some minor tweaks to their offensive “attack” they were still going nowhere fast. Every attempt at doing something smarter like actually running the ball with Caleb Williams taking snaps under the center, was undone by somebody (usually Darnell Wright) false starting. A couple of productive plays were wiped out by a Braxton Jones 15 yard penalty for blocking in the back and Cole Kmet going full Chuggo with a false start or two of his own.

They were still running routes where DJ Moore was supposed to come to a complete stop before he caught a pass, which is such a great use of their biggest offensive threat, and they were still dialing up poorly conceived wide receiver screens at an alarming rate.

The defense, the thing they are supposed to be able to rely on week in and week out was getting gashed in the running game by Kyren Williams.

They led 10-6 at the half, but their lone touchdown drive was three plays and 16 yards and 14 of those came on a Rams pass interference penalty on Keenan Allen in the end zone.

But in the second half the Bears were an offensive juggernaut and The Flus outcoached the hair gel out of Sean McVay.

OK, maybe not. But everything looked a lot better and a lot crisper after the half. The Bears mounted two touchdown drives of over 70 yards, including a crucial TD drive of five plays and 70 yards to push the lead back to nine points after the Rams had cut it to 17-15.

D’Andre Swift had his best game as a Bear (the bar was pretty low, but he leapt way over it) with 16 carries for 93 yards and a touchdown and seven catches for 72 yards. His 36 yard rush in the third quarter is the longest Bears run of the year so far, by 34 yards…probably.