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Carmen Vitali
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Things were going to take time in Chicago with so much new on the Bears offense. New coordinator, new weapons, new rookie quarterback.
Patience isn’t in the nature of fandom, but it was always going to be rewarded.
Lucky for the Bears, that reward is coming pretty quickly. Chicago blew out the Carolina Panthers 36-10 at Soldier Field on Sunday behind Caleb Williams’ second 300-yard passing game this season. Williams completed 20 of 29 passing attempts for 304 yards and two touchdowns. He recorded a passer rating of 126.2, his best of the season. It was the second week in a row he had a passer rating of over 100. His two 300-yard games are the most by any Bears rookie quarterback ever.
And it’s only Week 5. The Bears now sit at 3-2.
I’m still not suggesting this is a finished product. Carolina is going through… a lot right now. They aren’t a great team. But the Bears did what they were supposed to do against an inferior opponent and increased their NFL-best home win streak to eight.
Perhaps most encouragingly, it was also another well-balanced outing for the offense. The Bears ran the ball 36 times, including Williams’ scrambles. Williams threw the ball 29 times. And while Chicago used the run to get some tough yards, Williams used his arm to throw down the field — and connect. Through the early window, Williams had the second-longest yards per attempt average at 10.5. His total EPA for the afternoon was 16.6, the highest of his young career, according to Next Gen Stats.
Chicago’s offense had six plays over 20 yards, all of them passes, two of them for touchdowns. Both of those scores went to DJ Moore, who had his best game of the season, catching five passes for 105 yards and those two touchdowns. The other three Bears touchdowns (yes, Chicago got into the end zone five times on the day) came on the ground, with Roschon Johnson getting two of the hard-fought,…
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