This is great because I was on an airplane during this entire game lol. I remember talking to another Bears fan at the Airport as soon as i got off the plane and he told me how good of a game this was. now I can go back in time and enjoy it thanks!
Will you please replay that Bears @ Bengals match up from 2001? We need this game like water, that was the A-train’s breakout game as a rookie. Minus Cedric Benson’s (R.I.P.) revenge game. We’ve always owned Cincinnati!
2013 Bears weren't great by any means. They had a surprisingly great offense but had an uncharacteristically horrendous defense. It was a bizarro world season for us since they're usually dealing with the exact opposite (great defense with a terrible offense). It didn't help that Marc Trestman made a lot of boneheaded strategic and time management decisions that proved to be costly in the first year of his short lived disastrous stint as coach.
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Bears defense was over the hill and going down hill. Marc Tressmann was a terrible coach in 2013 and 2014. I was happy that he was fired. Phil Emery was a terrible GM too.
Agree about the defense, but as bad as Trestman was in ‘14, he wasn’t awful in ‘13. He generally had the offense humming, and had the Bears off to a 3-0 start. The offense was exceptionally good with MCCown, and if they had a halfway decent defense, they would’ve won 1 of their last 2 games. They got embarrassed at Philadelphia in the penultimate week of the season on a Sunday night, and we all know what happened in the finale against GB. ‘14, however, was an abomination. Trestman showed his lack of leadership throughout, culminating in back to back embarrassments at NE and GB, where they remarkably gave up 50 in each game.
@@vincedidiana5781Trestman made some terrible game management decisions that cost us at least 2 games in 2013. It was clear to everyone watching Jay Cutler hobbling around the field in the 2nd meeting with Detroit that he should've been taken out since he couldn't effectively run the offense. McCown went right down the field when he was put out there for the final drive but it was too little too late by that point. Bears probably win that game if Trestman makes the QB switch earlier. The Bears 2nd meeting with Minnesota was just as maddening. We caught a huge break in OT when Minnesota had a game winning FG waived off due to penalty and then missed their next one after losing a lot yardage. We had Matt Forte gaining huge chunks on each carry on the next possession following that missed kick. Minnesota's defense seemed to be gassed and unable to stop him. Trestman for some reason settles for a 2nd down 47 yard FG attempt rather than letting Forte have at least another carry or 2 to make the possible game winning FG closer and easier. Disaster struck as Robbie Gould hooked the ill advised 47 yard attempt on 2nd down and our swiss cheese defense let the Minnesota offense march right down the field before kicking a point blank ranger FG to end the game. I still feel sick just thinking about that one.
Yes indeed. '13 & '14 Seasons set them back even further with terrible HC and GM like you said. Then Fox came in and did what was easiest...NOTHING. Nagy fired them up for a year with a rejuvinated Vic Fangio built 3-4 Defense that had quality youth, but Nagy turned out to be a fraud. and then Vic was gone. Now in 2022???? time to fucking start all over again....SMH
