Del Rio: We haven’t lost confidence in Latavius Murray
Bennett was defending the embattled quarterback after the Bears pulled off a wild 22-20 win over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Leno was filling in for starting left tackle Jermon Bushrod, who missed his first start of the season after suffering a concussion and shoulder injury last week in Seattle. Cutler would go on to find tight end Martellus Bennett for the touchdown.
The most troubling part of the game could be that Oakland finally got good production from defensive line players not named Mack and it was all in vain. Murray juggled a second-quarter pass from the Carr right into the arms of Bears linebacker Pernell McPhee, who returned his first career interception 13 yards to the Oakland 15, setting up the first of Gould’s three field goals.
Here is how the Raiders (2-2) graded out in their 22-20 loss to the Chicago Bears (1-3). He was limited to 49 rushing yards against a Bears team that entered the contest ranked 28th in the league at defending against the run.
The game featured six lead changes, but the Bears’ ability to keep drives going on third downs was a major difference. “How do you think they do us? We feel like we prepared well, we just didn’t quite execute the way we wanted and came up a little short”. On the other hand, he also had made the game-winning scoring drive necessary with yet another big mistake at a crucial time – throwing an interception to longtime antagonist Charles Woodson to ignite a 91-yard Oakland go-ahead drive.
It seemed to be one of those passes that infamously built a Cutler’s reputation, the kind of head-scratching, mind-numbing decision he often makes to cost the Bears a game.
The Jets won the toss and chose to kick off to start the 12th regular-season NFL game at Wembley Stadium, the home England’s national soccer team and recent host venue of two Rugby World Cup matches. Coming off a hamstring injury, Cutlers’ mobility and play was expected to be poor. Cutler set up the score by going 5-for-8 passing on the drive. “My hat’s off to his toughness just battling through that game”. Matt Slauson then moved from left guard to center….
The second half began in repetitive fashion with another uncharacteristic drop from Murray and another sack to Carr, but the Raiders caught a break when Stacy McGee recovered a fumble at the Chicago 31. Cutler enjoyed relatively clearly, as well as having the Bears topped the mounting Oakland Raiders 22overvallen20 on any last-second Robbie Gould arena goal and objective.
It’s unlikely the win will give the 1-3 Bears even a faint reason to believe in a playoff run, though perhaps it does mean that what’s left after the fire sale isn’t as bad as a few feared. I was really, really happy to see smiles in there. We didn’t get that done on offense, so we turned it over to the defense with the lead and we got them to fourth-and-5 and had a shot to end it right there.