It is previous Halloween, and Sam Darnold is seeing ghosts once more. Really, the entire Seattle Seahawks staff appeared spooked because the Chicago Bears got here into Lumen Discipline and stole the host’s sweet on “Monday Night Football” with a 34-17 win that dropped the defending Tremendous Bowl champs to 4-4 whereas elevating the customer’s file to 6-2.
Seahawks normally fare nicely on Monday night time, however not this time
It was positively not Seattle’s night time on “MNF,” a showcase the place it had gone 32-13-0 all-time previous to the Week 8 contest for an NFL-best .711 successful proportion.
The Bears did not care. Chicago QB Caleb Williams and firm gashed the “Darkish Facet” protection for 373 yards in all, together with 126 yards on the bottom and 4 touchdowns that every one got here inside the purple zone with only one turnover.
The night time began with a 17-play, 80-yard Chicago drive within the first quarter that completed with Williams’ one-yard scoring go to Luther Burden III, and the Bears have been forward to remain. In between scores, they collected 22 first downs, together with 13 by way of the air, as Williams completed 24-of-34 for 247 yards whereas being sacked simply as soon as.
He additionally accomplished a 39-yard catch-and-run with Kalif Raymond on Third- and-9 from the Seattle 44 within the fourth quarter, with the Bears forward by simply three on the time, that led to an insurance coverage TD. Chicago additionally held the ball for a complete of 35 minutes of sport time, together with drives that lasted over eight and 6 minutes every.
It wasn’t simply the vaunted Seattle protection that failed on Monday, although. The Seahawks offense was largely stagnant for a lot of the competition, with Darnold ending 17-of-34 for 188 yards by way of the air whereas being sacked 3 times and having a half-dozen of his passes knocked down.
He threw for 2 TDs, one every to Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Cooper Kupp, the second bringing the Seahawks to inside 20-17 early within the fourth quarter after a profitable two-point conversion throw to Tory Horton.
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