San Francisco 49ers Report Card: Chicago Bears

But instead of curling up in the fetal position, the 49ers defense fought back and, along with quarterback Blaine Gabbert’s 44-yard touchdown run and 71-yard walk-off touchdown pass to Torrey Smith, helped lead San Francisco to an improbable 26-20 overtime victory against the Bears.

“I feel bad. I have a job to do, and I didn’t do that today”, Gould said.

The 49ers improve to 4-8 with the victory; the Bears drop to 5-7.

Any talk of the Bears reaching. 500 mark after starting the season 0-3. Gould was wide left on a 40-yarder in the third quarter.

Cutler misfired on a couple of throws with Alshon Jeffery and Joshua Bellamy open in the San Francisco secondary in the fourth quarter.

“It was just a quick screen”, Cutler said. If you let the adversity affect your play, we would not have had a shot like we did today.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) – The Chicago Bears understand their playoff chances essentially got tossed into Lake Michigan. Completing 14 of 25 pass attempts for 130 yards with a pick-six before exiting, he led the Bears’ offense down the field on the ensuing drive as running back Kadeem Carey punched in the score to give his team a 20-13 lead late.

Blaine Gabbert did something.

While the pass rush did a nice job of applying pressure to Gabbert throughout the game, it failed to contain the former first-round quarterback on a 44-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter. That streak includes the entire Marc Trestman era, when Chicago’s traditional ground-and-pound game often tended to disappear, prompting John Fox’s new regime to promise to reverse that this season.

After that, Gabbert & Co. came to life. The 49ers benefited from Bears mistakes, but Gabbert made huge plays to tie the game up, and get the win.

“Robbie is one of the best kickers in football”, Ditka said. Now with the playoffs out of the picture, the Bears will not have the pressure to keep playing hard from people outside the locker room, but I hope they keep fighting and finish strong.

I suspect the decision will hinge on whether Pace believes Wilkerson makes them a Super Bowl contender or whether they’re still a year away. Six of their first 10 possessions were three-and-outs, and there was only one scoring drive among them. He had 84 rushing yards and a touchdown on 21 carries, and 39 receiving yards on five receptions.

Smith was mobbed by a group of teammates in the end zone while the Bears trudged to midfield for postgame handshakes.

“It was set up by all the throws we had underneath early on in the game, all the runs we ran out of that formation”, Gabbert said.

Kaepernick was benched in San Francisco in favor of Gabbert then underwent season-ending surgery on his left (nonthrowing) shoulder. Matt Forte and Jeremy Langford have kept the Bears’ offense running efficiently, and Jay Cutler has limited his turnovers.

“I would say (our defense) wasn’t well executed”, Fox said. I know he struggled a little bit, but it s like anything. Goldman was the Bears’ second-round draft choice last spring. The 49ers also found themselves short-handed at outside linebacker when their best pass-rusher, Aaron Lynch, sustained a concussion in the second half.

As tough as this season has been for the San Francisco 49ers, linebacker NaVorro Bowman sees the plan coming together.