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The Detroit Lions drumline goes to work at Ford Field. The Bears try to end a five-game losing streak Thursday. Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK

First Quarter

Bears can't stop a pass to the sidlines to Amon-Ra and it's already in field goal range at the Bears 35.

  • Montgomery running leaves Lions in easy conversion of third-and-4. Jameson Williams with the catch and Kyler Gordon can't tackle him before he gets to the sticks.
  • Goff starting at his 30. Bears run defense looks like it usually does now, giving up 10 to Montgomery on first down.
  • Bears kick off so they will get the third-quarter possession. Don't know if that's good to give the first possession to that Lions offense though.

Pregame

The road aspect of this game is even tougher for the Bears than the short work week. Matt Eberflus hasn't had a team win on the road in over a year now. It was Nov. 27, 2023 with the 12-10 win over Minnesota. The only other wins were over Washington on the Thursday night after Dick Butkus passed away, and in a night game against the Patriots in 2022, when they prevented George Halas from being passed up in wins by Bill Belichick against New England. All of those were bad opponents. The Bears haven't beaten a winning team on the road since the win over the Raiders in 2021 when John Gruden was about the be fired. The Raiders were 3-1 on that day and went on to make the playoffs after Gruden's firing. They won 20-9 thanks largely to Khalil Mack. This, alone, is an indictment of his coaching, and then there is the 5-18 record in one-score games.

Two wins so far for Matt Eberflus in the division. How many coaches do you recall in the NFL who started out with so few wins in division, on the road and overall for that matter, in their first 45 games but managed to turn it around and become great successes? If it was going to happen, there would have been obvious signs by now. Instead, there are only maddening defeats and that's kind of what his legacy was as a defensive coordinator too.

It's kind of wild the Vikings brought in Daniel Jones during the season the way they did. He could be a better option in the future than Sam Darnold. They're going the cheap way at QB. But when your coach is a QB savant you can do that. The Bears thought they had this with Shane Waldron. He didn't know how to coach up a rookie.

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This article first appeared on Chicago Bears on SI and was syndicated with permission.

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