Tennessee (-2 1/2) @ Bears (11-27-16)

[oldunclemark]

1 p.m. EST Spero Dedos and Solomon Wilcotts (who are here only because there's no Colts game Sunday) on CBS

 over-under 44,   Mid-40s and cloudy in front of a lot of empty seats in Chicago

 

Titan QB Marcus Mariotta (228 of 355, 2,772 yards, 23 Tds, 8 INTs) will again look for TR Delanie Walker (46 catches, 607 yards) when hes not handing it off to HB DeMarco Murray (212 carries, 1,000 yards, No,. 1 in the AFC)  

Bears QB? Well, who is it. Wit jay Cutler and Brian Hoyer both out,

Matt Barkley, the USC flash..will make his 1st NFL start (whether he wants to or not) without Alshon Jeffery (40 catches, 630 yards) who is suspended and TE Zach Miller (47 catches, 486 yards), who broke his foot last week.  Better hand it off to Jordan Howard (131 carries, 682 yards)

Titans have 30 QB sacks so just because Barkley starts doesnt mean he'll finish the game.

Of the 22 players who began the season starting for the Bears, 13 are out this week.

 

For Tennessee (5-6) to have any chance to win the AFC South, they must win this game. With a loss to Houston and 2 to the Colts already, the Titans lose most tie breakers.

Titans also have Denver and KC still to play....and they have to pass the Colts....not just catch them

For the Bears, if they don't beat the Titans this week or the 49ers next week, they will go 2-14 for the firs time in team history.

..and even in next year's draft, losing wont help the Bears , they only get one pick in the first round..and there's no one player who can save them

[oldunclemark]

lots of movement here.......Tennessee is now (-5)  or (- 5 1/2) in some places..

....no respect for Matt Barkley

[2006Coltsbestever]

Titans will be 6-6 after this one. I don't see the Bears helping us out here  

[oldunclemark]

Matt Barkley isn't terrible...7-0 early.....Bears have a chance today

[2006Coltsbestever]

3 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:

Matt Barkley isn't terrible...7-0 early.....Bears have a chance today

That is the game I am watching here in Indy. I am following the Texans game and that is still 0-0

[oldunclemark]

uh, oh.....7-7 very quickly in Chicago

[oldunclemark]

Okay...14-7 Titans...the tide has turned

[2006Coltsbestever]

Rivers just threw a 50 Yard TD pass, 7-7 in that game.

[2006Coltsbestever]

This was pretty much a given, great thing is they already have 6 losses and we own the tiebreaker over them no matter what happens.

[oldunclemark]

14-10 4th quarter....Texans struggling again

[oldunclemark]

27-7......Titans..Matt Barkley's highlight came early

Just now, oldunclemark said:

14-10 4th quarter....Texans struggling again

 

[oldunclemark]

Bears rallying/...27-14.......'Miracle' Matt Barkley??

[oldunclemark]

  27-21..now 3:00 left...Barkley 3 TD passes..Bear  receivers have dropped 7 balls

[snkdy]

I'm very impressed with Barkley.

[RockThatBlue]

Nice catch.

[RockThatBlue]

Wow...dropped a TD.

[oldunclemark]

300 yards for Barkley..Bears at the Titans 10..:30 left

[oldunclemark]

Some Bears backup dropped the game winning TD...4th down

[mahagga73]

Dropped pass on GW TD.

[RockThatBlue]

Titans win.

[mahagga73]

2 dropped TD passes .

[oldunclemark]

another Bear loser dropped ANOTHER game winner......Titans win 27-21

[RockThatBlue]

Bears WRs played worse than ours did. Yikes.

 

 

[mahagga73]

I've never seen so many drops in one game .

[oldunclemark]

  after week 12

 

Houston (6-5)

Tennessee (6-6)

Colts (5-6)

 

.....wow

[oldunclemark]

1 minute ago, mahagga73 said:

I've never seen so many drops in one game .

maybe 9 drops..

and those are NFL players.

 

..at least until Monday morning

[2006Coltsbestever]

2 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:

  after week 12

 

Houston (6-5)

Tennessee (6-6)

Colts (5-6)

 

.....wow

I am feeling much better about this right now than I did after Thursday. We just need Andrew healthy + others as well. Looking at the teams schedules it's anyone's Division now.

[Gavin]

Barkley was by no means great in the game. He made a couple bad decisions but he was by no means the reason the Bears lost the game. All things considered he did not play bad in the game. His receivers just did not step up and make enough of the plays they should have made. Multiple drops but more then that were balls that wr's should have caught but didn't. Have to tip my hat to Barkley on this one under the circumstances I think

[oldunclemark]

1 minute ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:

I am feeling much better about this right now than I did after Thursday. We just need Andrew healthy + others as well. Looking at the teams schedule it's anyone's Division now.

we have the ultimate tie breaker on Tennessee..you're right....

   The Houston loss was the big deal...what we needed...

 

Houston ends the season at Tennessee..

...we just have to get healthy and win one on the road

[oldunclemark]

2 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Barkley was by no means great in the game. He made a couple bad decisions but he was by no means the reason the Bears lost the game. All things considered he did not play bad in the game. His receivers just did not step up and make enough of the plays they should have made. Multiple drops but more then that were balls that wr's should have caught but didn't. Have to tip my hat to Barkley on this one under the circumstances I think

You're selling him a little short.... Barkley was very good....

....and outstanding late.  he looked like he did in college

 

[oldunclemark]

Matt Barkley  28 of 54, 316...3 Tds, 2 INTs.......It was Tennessee....and it was numbers rolled up who they were behind..

...but he did almost all he could in his debut start

[oldunclemark]

Officially...(if that kind of thing can be official) 10 dropped passes....for the Bears.

....Tennessee got a gift from the football Gods

[King Colt]

The history of the Bears contains two, maybe three quarterbacks, the rest are virtual unknowns.