It was a wild Halloween weekend. In fact, I think I’ve aged about 15 years since I took my children trick-or-treating on Friday night.

All of that is to say that I hope we never have to watch a ballgame like that one against the Cincinnati Bengals again. But how fun was it to see the Chicago Bears actually come out on top in one of those wild contests?

It was a strange game in which the defense showed some flashes in moments, but looked like garbage for most of the outing. The special teams looked like garbage for the...

The Bears are in the thick of the playoff hunt. Sitting at 5-3 after a last minute victory against the Bengals, it appears the Bears would be buyers ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline. Insiders like Jay Glazer have been noting that the Bears will be aggressive in adding to their roster.

Many around the league believe that the Bears will add to their underperforming DL and injury-riddled secondary. This would appear especially true after giving up 42 points to an aging Joe Flacco.

So, with approximately 24 hours til the deadline, I asked two questions of our staff. What is...

Bears edge rusher Dayo Odeyingbo suffered a torn Achilles in the team’s win over the Bengals on Sunday, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport announced on Monday. As a result, he will miss the remainder of the 2025 regular season.

Odeyingbo was one of the prized free agent acquisitions that Ryan Poles made this past offseason, as the Bears signed him to a three-year, $48 million deal in March. Having spent the first four years of his career with the Colts, the 26-year-old defensive lineman played in and started all eight games Chicago has played to this point.

Production had been tough...

Anyone else still struggling to catch their breath after the final two and a half minutes of Sunday’s game in Cincinnati? It was an up-and-down game that saw eight lead changes, and when it felt like the Chicago Bears had all but salted the game away with just over two minutes remaining, the Bengals scored 15 points in less than a minute. That set the stage for one final offensive drive, in which quarterback Caleb Williams came through yet again.

It was far from a perfect game on either side of the ball, but for the first time in what...

In an offensive shootout that featured eight lead changes and included 31 points in the 4th quarter alone, the Chicago Bears came away with the much-needed victory. Here are my notes.

Offense:

• Kyle Monangai and the run game was easily the highlight in this one. From the offensive tackles mauling defenders in space to the interior OL opening up lanes or Monangai’s vision and power punishing would-be tacklers, the Bears’ run game is back. And they are only getting better. Monangai had 26 carries for 176 yards in this one.
• Caleb appeared a tad off on his...

The Bears head into the 2025 NFL trade deadline on a high note, having defeated the Bengals 47-42 on Sunday in one of the craziest matchups in the team’s recent history. Now that they sit at 5-3 coming out of Week 9, they’re well positioned for what should be a competitive playoff race for the remainder of the season.

It feels cliche or even reactionary to say, but the season genuinely felt on the line in the Bears’ rollercoaster game against Cincinnati. Given how difficult the NFC North figures to be – and considering Chicago has four more divisional matchups...

That was a fantastic and fun roller-coaster-of-emotions type of game, with so many lead changes and improbable moments.

On Sunday afternoon, the Chicago Bears beat the Cincinnati Bengals, 47-42. That was Chicago’s most points scored since 2018, when they put up 48. This was also the first time the Bears had ever won a game after allowing 42 points, and prior to this game, they had lost 50 straight when allowing 30 points.

Offensively, Chicago racked up 576 yards to 495 from Cincinnati, which is the sixth most offensive yards gained in Chicago history, and their most since 1980.

The...

The Chicago Bears fought for all 60 minutes, and in the end, they came out victorious against the Cincinnati Bengals, overcoming a huge Bengals’ fourth-quarter comeback. After this 47-42 win, the Bears’ advance to 5-3 on the season.

This high-scoring game was equally exciting and messy, leaving fans on the tip of their toes. We finally saw breakout games for rookie TE Colston Loveland and rookie RB Kyle Monangai. And the final quarter of this game was easily the craziest of the Bears’ season yet. Let’s get right into Week 9’s Windy City Honors superlative awards:

Worst Outing

Typically, the...

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The Chicago Bears and the New York Giants will meet for Week 10 on Sunday, November 9, at Noon (CT) from the Windy City, and right now, our partners at FanDuel Sportsbook have the home team as a 3.5-point favorite. The point total over/under for the game is 48.5, and considering the (5-3) Bears and the (2-7) Giants have defenses that rank in the bottom third of the league, that number may be a bit low.

Earlier today, the Bears won a shoot-out aganst the Cincinnati Bengals, 47 to 42, while the Giants lost to the San Francisco 49ers, 34...

It’s not hyperbolic to call that Chicago Bears 47 to 42 win over the Cincinnati Bengals one of the craziest games in Bears history. It was a back-and-forth contest with over a thousand combined yards of offense that fittingly came down to the final seconds.

Bears quarterback Caleb Williams continues to show that clutch-gene that you need your QB to have when he threaded a pass to rookie tight end Colston Loveland with 25 seconds left in the game and the Bears down one. Loveland shook off a couple of tackles and ran 35 more yards to the end zone...

It was a barnburner from start to finish, but the Chicago Bears came away from Sunday with a 47-42 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, improving to 5-3 on the 2025 season.

Both defenses failed to put together solid outings, while both offenses were tremendous in the showdown in Cincinnati. The Bears moved the ball consistently with a dominant run game, and a few key plays on defense in the second half seemingly helped them create separation. But terrible special teams play, an allowed onside kick conversion, and horrible coverage kept helped the Bengals score 15 points in 49 seconds.

Then,...