Too often this season the Bears lament is that they failed to finish, whether plays or games. Losing Sunday to the Green Bay Packers traced more to not starting, at least not soon enough.
The Bears rang up 27 points, their highest point total of the season, and 449 yards, second to the 522 at Indianapolis, on a Green Bay defense that was allowing 347 yards per game. They dominated the Packers in the fourth quarter, but the yards and points were anything but garbage-time stats, with the Bears tying the game in the final minutes before watching the Packers close out the game with a field goal at the expense of the defense.