TAMPA, Fla. — Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields threw an interception to Tampa Bay Buccaneers outside linebacker Shaq Barrett with the game on the line Sunday, and Barrett returned it for a touchdown in a 27-17 Bucs victory.
The Bears were trying to put together a tying or winning drive in the final two minutes from their 6-yard line when Fields’ short pass to Khalil Herbert found its way into Barrett’s arms. Barrett returned it 4 yards for a touchdown to put the game away.
The Bears put together a six-play, 75-yard drive on their first possession. It involved two big plays to wide receiver DJ Moore and was capped by Fields’ 1-yard touchdown run.
But the offense dried up from there until an 80-yard drive midway through the fourth quarter. Fields hit wide receiver Chase Claypool with a 20-yard touchdown pass to cut the Bucs lead to 20-17.
The Bears defense stopped the Bucs on the ensuing drive to give Fields a shot at leading the Bears to a win. But after a Bucs neutral-zone infraction and an offensive pass interference penalty on Claypool, Fields threw the interception.
Fields completed 16 of 29 passes for 211 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions, the second on the drive after Barrett’s touchdown. He took six sacks, including four in the second quarter to kill drives. One of those drives ended with Cairo Santos’ 52-yard field goal.
The Bears now head into a Week 3 meeting with the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium with an 0-2 record.
The Bucs extended a 13-10 halftime lead when wide receiver Mike Evans blew by rookie cornerback Tyrique Stevenson to catch a 32-yard pass from Baker Mayfield for a 20-10 lead. Evans had a 36-yard catch earlier in the drive, a play that included a missed tackle by safety Elijah Hicks.
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Herbert had a 23-yard gain and Moore had catches of 12 and 22 yards to fuel the Bears’ fourth-quarter touchdown drive that made it a three-point game.
Christian Izien intercepted Fields in the final minute of the fourth quarter after Barrett’s touchdown.
The Bears lost safety Eddie Jackson to a foot injury in the first quarter and wide receiver Darnell Mooney to a knee injury in the third quarter. Safety Jaquan Brisker left the game with an illness but returned in the second half.
Here’s how the game unfolded.
Bears running back D’Onta Foreman will be a healthy scratch Sunday against the Buccaneers after he had five carries for 16 yards and two catches for 8 yards in the season opener.
The Bears have two other running backs they can rely on: starter Khalil Herbert and rookie Roschon Johnson. Coach Matt Eberflus said Friday that Johnson was doing “really well” after he had five carries for 20 yards and six catches for 35 yards in Week 1.
“He’s very smart,” Eberflus said. “We like where he is in terms of his makeup, his mind. He has great spirit. The guy brings great energy. We like where he is and we’re just going to keep adding things to him as he builds.”
Early Sunday, the Bears announced right guard Nate Davis would miss the game. A source told the Tribune on Saturday that Davis is out because of a death in his family.
That means the Bears must figure out the best interior offensive line combination without their two starting guards. Left guard Teven Jenkins is on injured reserve. They have Dan Feeney and Ja’Tyre Carter as reserves along with guard/center starters Cody Whitehair and Lucas Patrick.
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Wide receiver Equanimeous St. Brown is also a healthy scratch for a second straight week. With Foreman down, the Bears will carry six wide receivers, including Velus Jones Jr., who will make his season debut. After Eberflus left open the possibility that Chase Claypool would be inactive, Claypool will play Sunday.
Defensive lineman Khalid Kareem is inactive, as is cornerback Josh Blackwell, who has a hamstring injury.
Tyson Bagent will serve as the emergency third quarterback in the event Justin Fields and Nathan Peterman are injured.
For the Bucs, running back Ke’Shawn Vaughn, tight end Payne Durham, offensive lineman Brandon Walton, defensive lineman Calijah Kancey, outside linebacker Markees Watts, linebacker Sirvocea Dennis and cornerback Carlton Davis III are inactive.
The Buccaneers outgained the Bears 292-114 in the first half Sunday and went into halftime with a 13-10 lead.
The Bears defense played for much of the half without starting safeties Jaquan Brisker and Eddie Jackson, who left the game on the same drive in the first quarter, leaving Elijah Hicks and Quindell Johnson at safety. Jackson suffered a foot injury and was ruled out for the game. Brisker was questionable to return with an illness.
Bears quarterback Justin Fields completed 6 of 10 passes for 95 yards and was sacked four times in the half. Roschon Johnson had three carries for 32 yards.
The Bears talked all week about getting DJ Moore more involved in the offense after he was targeted only twice in Week 1. That initiative showed up in their opening drive when Moore had catches of 33 and 31 yards on the way to a touchdown.
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The latter catch put the Bears at the 6-yard line. After a 5-yard Khalil Herbert run, Fields rolled out to his right and sprinted into the corner of the end zone for a 1-yard touchdown run and a 7-3 lead.
But the next two Bears drives went for minus-13 yards combined. The Bears got to the Bucs 24-yard line on their fourth drive, but Fields took sacks twice in a three-play span and they settled for a 52-yard Cairo Santos field goal.
The Buccaneers took a 3-0 lead on their opening drive on Chase McLaughlin’s 26-yard field goal. On third-and-12 at the 15, Baker Mayfield’s pass to Chris Godwin went for only 7 yards. Godwin was open in the end zone one play earlier, but Mayfield misfired.
After the Bears took the 7-3 lead, defensive end Rasheem Green blocked McLaughlin’s 40-yard field-goal attempt on the Bucs’ second drive. The Bears got the ball at the 50 but lost 14 yards in three plays, including two sacks of Fields. Moore was open in the middle and clapping his hands on the second sack on third down, but Fields was taken down for a loss of 11 yards.
The Bucs took a 10-7 lead on a 4-yard Rachaad White touchdown run in the second quarter. The drive included a 70-yard pass play from Mayfield to Mike Evans, who made the catch after appearing to push off against cornerback Tyrique Stevenson.
The Bucs went into halftime with the lead when McLaughlin hit a 25-yard field goal as time expired.
Mayfield completed 13 of 19 passes for 202 yards in the half.
Here’s a look at our pregame coverage.
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The Bears have dropped their last three games in Tampa by an average of 34-7. Their last road victory against the Buccaneers came in 2015, a 26-21 win.
A look at more eye-catching facts and figures, including the fact that the Bears haven’t won a game since Oct. 24 of last season.
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Willie Thrower lived his life as a footnote in the history books of one of professional football’s most storied franchises.
A quarterback whose “name is synonymous with his skill as a player,” as the Pittsburgh Courier declared in 1953, Thrower was the first Black quarterback to play at a Big Ten school and in the modern NFL. He made his professional debut for the Chicago Bears on Oct. 18, 1953, with less than five minutes left in a game against the San Francisco 49ers at Wrigley Field — six years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
The game was Thrower’s lone NFL appearance after notable high school and college careers. Now, 70 years later and 21 years after his death, his family and historians want people to know his name — and his story.
The Bears said Wednesday they don’t plan to pursue legislation to help build a new stadium during the Illinois General Assembly’s fall session.
That means proposals drafted by legislators this spring to help the Bears create a “megadevelopment” in Arlington Heights, where they purchased the former Arlington International Racecourse site, will likely not be on the agenda in Springfield during the two-week veto session that begins in late October, slowing a potential move to the northwest suburb.
The Bears have left the door open to staying in Chicago while also indicating their willingness to listen to proposals from other suburbs.
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