Right now the Dallas Cowboys look like a lost team
Defense
Now, even though the offense wasn’t on point, the defense wasn’t all that good either. The Bears statistically had the 29th ranked offense. While the Cowboys defense isn’t as good as I thought it would be at the start of the season, it was a respectable 10th in the league.
Today you can just get those numbers and throw them in a big blender. Trubisky made Dallas’ defense look like Swiss cheese as he picked every single player apart. Now, I will give credit to Dallas for forcing an interception and recovering a fumble, but still, come on.
After scoring less than 17 points in a full game six times this season, the Bears were able to score 17 in the first half against the Cowboys. On all four drives in the first half of the game, Chicago was able to march down the field and get inside Dallas’ red zone.
Now, the second half was much better. The Bears did end up scoring two more touchdowns, but they only had two drives that had more than three plays run. You have to respect that performance.
Dallas gave up big plays on both of those touchdown drives in the second half which if were stopped they might have not scored. The first touchdown drive included a 33-yard pass to receiver Cordarrelle Patterson on a third down. There were three missed tackles before the first down line.
The second touchdown in the second half was the 23-yard run by Trubisky. He made a great read and ran the ball, but safety Xavier Woods missed an open tackle which allowed Trubisky to make it into the endzone.
Again, defending the run has been a problem for Dallas, and remains to be their Achilles’ heel. The Bears were very smart in exploiting this weakness, and Dallas did not clean this up.
Bears rookie David Montgomery had a very good game today. He was able to read pretty much every single hole, and he was also able to break a good amount of tackles. He finished the game averaging 4.3 yards per rush.
Trubisky also enjoyed a nice day of running. He managed to run for one touchdown and 63 yards. Dallas did a very bad job of containing a mobile quarterback.
This game in which the Bears scored 31 points ties the most points scored in one game this season for them. This was a terrible game defensively for the Cowboys, and a great day offensively for the Bears.