Anthony Heron

Goes back four.

Four-man rush.

He's chased.

He's flushed.

He's all the way back to the 40.

I was in the green room at the Big Ten Network last night, and then when the moment happened that Caleb Williams went deep through the bomb to DJ Moore, at that point I was all yelled out.

I was just exhausted by then with all the different screens and the stimulus and the notes, and just seeing that, I was actually quiet at that point.

The touchdown at the end of regulation, I let out the big yell.

The touchdown that closed the show...

I let on an exhale because I didn't know what else to do.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

That was a really nice way for Dennis Allen, for the Bears defense, to close out the season with a performance that you can wonder, all right, what if you would have gotten more of that from throughout the year?

Because I certainly didn't predict, and I think most of us probably didn't, that the Bears defense would be able to stymie

the number one offense in football for the bulk of the game in the way that they did.

And there was certainly some assistance I think they got in that where Sean McVay just didn't seem to call a great game.

See, maybe the top offensive mind in the sport, he basically just kind of gave up on the rushing attack for chunks of the game.

I feel like there were some reasons for that.

It seemed to me like whenever the Bears would stem to a five-man front, get Tremaine Edmonds off one edge, I think that

Matt Stafford seemed to me, and I'll go through a second viewing of the game at some point, but my impression just kind of watching the TV copy live in real time was Stafford was making some adjustments to go to some pass plays as opposed to running into a five-man front that the Bears showed on occasion.

But McVay and the game plan going in didn't necessarily seem to suit the opponent that the Bears had.