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In terms of offense, this isn’t your dad’s Chicago Bears, but it might be your big brother’s or young uncle’s team.
Their rousing victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in London on Sunday marked the first time since 2013 that Chicago has put up 35 or more points in consecutive games.
That team had Jay Cutler, Matt Forte, Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery and finished second in the NFL in scoring that year.
What occurred Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium smacks of an emerging trend: this is one of the most offensively dynamic Bears teams in a long time. Once again, the catalyst was rookie quarterback Caleb Williams, who threw four touchdown passes and ran for another 56 yards in a 35-16 rout. Indeed, it was—ahem—a “Tea-D” party.
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— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) October 13, 2024
The beneficiary of Williams’s passes was tight end Cole Kmet, who caught two TD passes in the first half, including a 31-yard touchdown reception to score the game’s first touchdown.
Kmet pulled double duty as the Bears’ long snapper when their regular guy, Scott Daly, went down with a knee injury.
Running back D’Andre Swift scampered for 91 yards and a touchdown and finished with 119 total yards.
Keenan Allen, the 12-year veteran hauled in two touchdowns.
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— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) October 13, 2024
But once again, the Bears’ top-five defense in points allowed sacked Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence three times and intercepted him once.
That’s the critical difference between these Bears and that team from 11 years ago. Despite boasting two 1,000-yard receivers in Marshall and Jeffery and a 1,000-yard rusher in Forte, the 2013 Bears had a bottom-three defense, allowing 29.9 points per game that season.
The most points the 2024 team has given up so far is 21.
The Bears are now 4-2 with a three-game winning streak but in the NFL’s toughest division by record. After Sunday’s win, the Bears were still in third place due to the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions, who, entering Sunday, were in first and second place with 5-0 and 3-1 records, respectively.
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