CHICAGO -- Hey, if the football fans in the Windy City want to overreact, who's going to tell them to cut it out? It's been quite a while since the Bears were fun, and even with the Cubs back in the playoffs this town is fired up about a 3-1 first-place football team that just put 48 points on the Bucs on its way into the bye. Mitchell Trubisky just quadrupled his season touchdown pass total in one delirious afternoon, and if you're not allowed to overreact to that, what's the point of being a fan?
So let's start with the game I got to see in person as part of my Sunday NFL Countdown duties -- a game that was 38-3 at the half and ended 48-10 as Trubisky buried the Bucs' weeklong QB controversy with six touchdown passes of his own against a Tampa Bay team that couldn't do a thing right no matter who was taking the snaps.