Natural calamities, the Titanic’s sinking, and Thursday night’s events involving the Washington Commanders are just a few examples.
Despite having a 14-game losing run, the Chicago Bears destroyed Washington, winning 40-20 in a game that was really not all that close.
From the initial kickoff of the game, the first half belonged entirely to the Bears. Washington Commanders moved 75 yards and scored its first touchdown in just six plays. Early in the second quarter, the Bears scored another 10 straight points to go up 17-0 before Washington answered with a field goal.
Chicago had a 27-3 edge at the break. Again, read that.
Washington had a few stops and started running some offense in the second half, but it was too little, too late. Sam Howell, the quarterback, had a solid game, but there wasn’t much else to admire about it.
The readiness of Washington for this game raises serious concerns, particularly on defense. Chicago has now defeated the Commanders four times in a row with at least 30 points.
‘No fire or intensity’
The discussion has already started for at least one member of the Commanders’ new ownership group. In the moments following Washington’s humiliating defeat, Magic Johnson turned to X.
Johnson said on X, now known as Twitter, that “Tonight the Commanders played with no intensity or fire.” “We didn’t play well in the first half and were down 27-3 at the break. We lost 40-20 because it was too difficult to crawl out of the hole.
On fourth downs, Ron Rivera made a number of dubious decisions. Rivera decided to kick a field goal in the second quarter on 4th and 4 from the Chicago 33-yard line with a 17-0 deficit. In the third quarter, with Washington behind 27-11 and facing a fourth and two from the Chicago 13, Rivera made another field goal.
Both decisions, but especially the one made in the third quarter, were disliked by the analytical models.
In the end, in the
With three touchdowns and 230 receiving yards on eight catches, Moore utterly decimated the Commanders. It was clear that rookie first-round pick Emmanuel Forbes was benched during the second half of the loss because Washington’s secondary struggled throughout the game with coverage and tackling.
Josh Harris has been the new managing partner in Washington since July, and his ownership group has mostly seen excellent news and enjoyable results since that time. That is now over.
The Bears’ loss to them sparks a new discussion about this season and beyond. When you lose by a large margin, those discussions go into overdrive.
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