An amazing ending at Monday Night!
By Jill Woods
This is one of the few amazing things that can happen in a football game, when the Bears beat the Cardinals after losing the game for 20 points.
On the first quarter of the game, the team was not in a good shape; Rex Grossman overthrew a wide-open Bernard Berrian for a sure TD, but almost throwing an interception, play that cornerback Robert Tate frustrated. Cardinals were 23 and they only needed one third down conversion to get the 77 yards in order to get the first touchdown of the first quarter of the game. After three plays the Pro Bowl wide-receiver Anquan Boldin was placed in the field who scored and gave Arizona a 14-0 score. It seemed like nothing during this first stage of the game was going right.
The second quarter looked like Grossman’s bad luck will continue, when he made a terrible throw which was intercepted by the linebacker Gerald Hayes. One of the most important facts that is good to mention from this second stage is the 19 yard Leinart completion to Boldin that placed the ball at the Chicago 13, and rackers finished that possession with a 28-yard field goal as time expired. The positive situation during this part of the game was that Rackers missed 52-yard field goal on a drive that started from the Bears, and the negative one could be the rain of interceptions.
As of the third quarter Arizona started the action making Grossman and his teammates to put more enthusiasm on the game. Into the many plays showed during the match, we all saw the the 12-yard completion to Clark, a 16-yarder to Rashied Davis followed of 11 yarder Davis for a third-down conversion preceded a 17-yard completion to Bernard Berrian that placed the ball to the Arizona
3-yard line. A positive fact that took place in this part of the game was that the defense was enabled to score its first Touch Down of the season thanks to the Anderson sack that gave him 6.5 for the season. But definitely the wrong thing Cardinals did was to block the Bears into their 5-yard line frustrating a Touch Down drive, by forcing two completions taking away the awaited time for the Bears.
The fourth and last quarter brought the most exciting and unexpected ending when Urlacher ripped the ball out of Edgerrin James’ hands and Charles Tilman and ran it back 40 yards. Hester set his second TD punt return of the season which was for 83 yards and gave the Bears a 24-23 victory. Nobody could not understand how Cardinals were able to lose when they was up 20 points.
About the author:
Jill Woods is part of the skill writers’ team on sports for the gambling industry at IAS Sportsbook. Feel free to reprint this article just as it is posted.
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