Week 16 NFL Game Preview: Chicago Bears at Tampa Bay Buccaneers

But if you’re a Bears fans and just hoped that they would somehow pull off a win, then you probably feel pretty good with how things turned out.

Ka’Deem Carey caught a touchdown pass from Jay Cutler and the third-string running back also scored on a 1-yard run to help the Chicago Bears beat the sliding Bucs 26-21 on Sunday.

The Bears play their final game of the season against the Lions (6-9) at noon on Sunday at Soldier Field.

“I think we’ve made strides”, Fox said. They will be looking to capitalize on that success and score again in next year’s draft.

“We still had more penalties than we would’ve liked”, guard Matt Slauson said.

Lovie Smith met with the press on Monday morning, roughly 24 hours after his Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost to the Chicago Bears, 26-21. At the moment that would mean a match up against the Seattle Seahawks, which would be a massive challenge as they have made huge strides in the second half of the season and at the moment look like one of the most risky teams in the league.

“Obviously we don’t want it to happen to us, but it happened”. Porter did gamble and give up one big gain, but generally took Tampa’s outside receivers out of their games with tight coverage both in man and zone. Impact plays like a blocked punt by Jeremiah George and recovered by Howard Jones, and a 50-yard touchdown by Charles Sims couldn’t offset three turnovers that set up 10 points for the Bears. The Bucs aim to redeem themselves after getting a pair of disappointing outings over the past two weeks while Tampa Bay has shown flashes of brilliance despite consecutive losses over the past two weeks.

Winston completed 15 of 29 passes for 295 yards with one costly interception – Jones-Quartey’s goal-line pick that prevented the Bucs from building on a one-point, third-quarter lead.

Cutler was 20 of 27 for 156 yards, one TD and no interceptions.

One aspect of the game restored partly due to young players was the running game.

That’s nowhere near what Bucs coach Lovie Smith expects from his team.

“They’re going to come and try to take our heads off like they’ve been playing well all year, so we’ve got to come and compete”, Winston said.

There’s a saying in football that the best ability is availability. “We’re going to work this week as hard as we work any week to make improvements and play our best ball”.

Details for Sunday’s game are below. A 3-1 start to the second half of the season put the team back into playoff contention before the current three-game losing streak. The Bears won three division titles and appeared in two NFC championship games and one Super Bowl under him…. After an absence of two games, the running game returned in full force against the Bucs regardless of who carried the football.