Hey, we can’t complain about there not being a touchdown this time. The Washington Commanders and the Chicago Bears played out yet another dreadfully boring Thursday Night Football game, with the Commanders winning 12-7.
You know, with the Monday Night Football game and the Sunday Night Football games being thrilling, divisional battles this past week, I think we can now blame Amazon alone for picking the absolute worst games to broadcast.
I don’t know what they were thinking by putting on the Commanders vs. Bears matchup as their primetime game, even though this week will showcase the Steelers vs. Buccaneers, Cowboys vs. Eagles, Chiefs vs. Bills, Cardinals vs. Seahawks, Broncos vs. Chargers, and the Bengals vs. Saints. Sure, they probably have to play second fiddle to CBS, FOX, NBC, and ABC/ESPN as they are the ‘new kids on the block’ for broadcasting, but that only amounts to four of the six matchups I just listed being unavailable to them.
If I was in charge of Amazon’s broadcasting department, I would have picked the Steelers vs. Bucs, the Cardinals vs. Seahawks, or the Bengals vs. Saints matchups over the Commanders vs. Bears. Not only have the Commanders and Bears been irrelevant and terrible (mostly) over the last fifteen years, but they aren’t even remotely rivals.
Unlike the Steelers vs. Bucs and Bengals vs. Saints matchups, which were matchups that featured two predicting good teams going up one another, or the Cardinals vs. Seahawks game, which is a matchup between divisional rivals, the Bears and the Commanders have no history with one another.
Aside from them both being old franchises, these teams never faced off in the Super Bowl, they never had a heated game back in the 1980’s when they were dominate, and they’ve only faced each other 6 times in the last twelve years. You don’t need me to tell you that this game had “BORING” written all over it before kickoff.
And the Bears and Commanders lived up to that sad fact.
This game didn’t have a touchdown until the 3rd Quarter, when Justin Fields unleashed a cannon throw 50 yards into the endzone, where his receiver Dante Pettis to put the Bears up 7-3 with 6 minutes to go in the 3rd Quarter. Even though the Bears ended up losing this game, Justin Fields really impressed me.
He was getting mauled on EVERY SINGLE dropback, but still managed to throw 14/27, 190 yards, a TD, and 1 INT. Plus, he also rushed the ball 11 times for 88 yards, which kept the Bears in this game. Without him, I don’t even think Chicago would have made it past the 50-yard line.
And it’s the same story for the Commanders, but with rookie RB Brain Robison Jr. Only his second game back after getting shot in the offseason, Robison took the Commanders offense onto his back and rushed 17 times for 60 yards and a touchdown.
Though, it looks like Riverboat Ron was right about his doubts with Carson Wentz as the former Colts and Eagles quarterback only threw for 12/22, 99 yards, 0 TDs, 0 INTs. That still doesn’t justify why he choose Wentz in the first place.
Anyway, the game came down to a 4th and goal on the 7-yard line, with the Bears down 12-7. Fields lobbed a pass to Darnell Mooney at the pylon, as the Bears receiver beat his coverage. Unfortunately for the Bears faithful, who had been booing and jeering the offense all night long, the Mooney bobbled and then caught the ball at the 1-yard line, thus ending the game as Chicago had no timeouts left.
I’m glad this game went down to the wire, or else I would have gone crazy. Both of these teams are awful, and it was a mistake to put them on primetime.
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