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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Ep. 88: How important was Bears’ win over Bengals?

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Where has that game plan been all season!? Laurence Holmes, Alex Brown and Jim Miller break down the Bears 33-7 win over the Bengals on Sunday. Mitchell Trubisky had his best game as a Bear as Jordan Howard continued to change the franchise’s record books. Plus, Adam Shaheen and Kyle Fuller had big performances that could cement them as part of the Bears future which starts this Saturday with the division-rival Lions.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Under Center podcast.

0:07.0

I'm Lawrence Holmes, along with Jim Miller and Alex Brown.

0:09.0

The Bears coming off a 33 to 7 win against Cincinnati.

0:14.0

Where is this game playing been?

0:17.0

Yeah, who knows?

0:18.0

I mean, this is what I think we've been calling for.

0:20.0

You know, you look at their dominating wins, whether it's against Pittsburgh, they ran the football.

0:24.0

Baltimore, they ran the football. Cincinnati today, they ran the football.

0:28.2

Ironically, it's all against AFC North teams, but this is what we thought they were going to do all season long.

0:33.1

It really, really came to fruition today because it just got everything.

0:37.2

It's probably the best their offenses looked all year.

0:39.5

For me, it was.

0:40.5

Well, with this run game doing what it did,

0:42.3

and you had Jordan Howard and Tari Cohen averaging over six yards a game,

0:46.0

how does that benefit a quarterback who's still trying to learn?

0:49.5

I think for him, because everything, like we said,

0:51.6

it takes pressure off him where he's not in third and long situations. You kind of stay on schedule that we always talk about. It opens up the

0:58.1

play action windows where just the windows are a lot bigger where you're confident and making

1:02.6

throws off of the play action passes. They hit him on some quick plays as well. Unfortunately,

1:07.5

some plays did get called back. But they, you know, what I was harping on in the post game show, they did empty today, they did regular, they did heavy sets, they did three wides.

1:16.4

They pretty much presented all the personnel groupings that you want to present to create a lot of problems on defense and continue the pressure.

1:24.6

Plus, like I said, at halftime when we broke it down, Lawrence, is that

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