The Texans’ defense continued to struggle with Alshon Jeffrey and the Bears’ passing game but was able to hold the Bears off the scoreboard.
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Texans: Houston hosts Kansas City next Sunday, looking for a win to erase the memory of last season’s 30-0 Wild-Card loss to the Chiefs.
If push comes to shove, it’s not a stretch to think the Bears will support White, even though Cutler is the quarterback. Hopefully, the potential that the team showed against the Bears today will continue throughout the season. If Fox is going to get all huffy about whether Adam Gase took the offense to Miami, then Dowell Loggains had better show that Fox’s game-shortening offense is still around. “He slid in, we kind of juggled two guys”.
“Yeah, I think at the time if I had the ability to see what people get to see at home, with yellow lines and blue lines and all the things …”
“Now, it’s just getting on the same page”. “The thing I love about Will in that situation is he came back in the second half and made a couple big plays for us”. But there is clearly plenty of work to do heading into their matchup against Philadelphia on Monday night.
The No. 7 overall pick in the 2015 draft, he missed his rookie season because of a stress fracture in his left shin. “You kidding me? I just hope we can win a damn game!”
Other than four Blair Walsh field goals, the Vikings’ defense scored twice in the final two periods – once on a 77-yard interception return for a touchdown by linebacker Eric Kendricks, and the other on a 24-yard fumble return for a touchdown by defensive end Danielle Hunter – to take the lead and pull away for good. White could really use a big play that puts him in the spotlight.
The Bears actually looked capable of pulling off an upset at Houston before being thoroughly outclassed in the second half of a 23-14 defeat. All of his four catches and 105 yards came in the first half, he only saw two targets after the second quarter.
“I love everything about him”, Osweiler said of Fuller. At least five games past year were decided by one score or less. “I thought they spit the ball out pretty quickly”.
J.J. Watt is still a headlining defensive talent, but health will remain crucial for the defense which lacks talent opposite of Watt.
That’s something that’s going to have to change if the Bears are going to make a jump – and if Cutler is going to stay upright. The Bears at least have two elite guards with Sitton’s arrival and Kyle Long back inside with Massie’s signing after filling in at right tackle a year ago. “Brock’s a very good athlete and has a good head on his shoulders”, Fox said. “It’s Cody’s first game out there”. We don’t want to make excuses at all. “There was nothing up front or on the back end or anything defensively that we weren’t prepared for”.
“I’d say it’s just time and experience”, said Cutler when asked about improving the line play.
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The Bears have been haunted for a while by the decision to select Shea McClellin (19th in the first round) instead of Whitney Mercilus (26th) in 2012 and they are feeling it acutely after Mercilus turned both starting Bears tackles into turnstiles in the second half. They did register eight quarterback hits and two sacks in the game, but Floyd was routinely swallowed up by blockers and players like Jonathan Bullard had difficulty making adjustments in his first career National Football League game.
