Bears 34, Seahawks 17.
Eyes opened everywhere.
Super Bowl thoughts rattling around the heads of Bears fans everywhere.
Is it 1985 all over again? Holy cow, that was impressive.
Let’s get to the grades: QUARTERBACK — A Seventeen plays.
Eighty yards.
Eight and a half minutes.
Against the top-ranked defense in the NFL — and in one of the toughest environments for a road team in sports — Caleb Williams calmly, coolly directed the first touchdown drive allowed by the Seahawks on an opponent’s opening possession in 27 games.
It was a monster drive that said, “We’re here.
More importantly, I’m here.
Get to know me.” Williams got Colston Loveland going, then Luther Burden, then Rome Odunze.
He kept the ball out of harm’s way.
On his best play, he stepped his tree-trunk legs out of the grasp of Pro Bowl tackle Leonard Williams’ and hit Odunze for 22 yards on the third-quarter drive that put the Bears up 20-9.
“Superstar” is the word now — go ahead and use it freely.
RECEIVERS — B-PLUS Outside of tight end Loveland’s fourth-quarter fumble that set up the Seahawks for a 25-yard touchdown drive and two-point conversion to make it a 20-17 game, it was a great night for the pass catchers.
Odunze claimed the deep middle as his territory, even making another of his apparently signature catches by reaching far behind his body — against its momentum — to snare a bullet.
Burden, who had a 1-yard touchdown among his seven catches, continues to be open whenever Williams looks for him.
Loveland, who also had seven catches, has put his slow start to the season deep in the rearview mirror.
You just can’t put the ball on the ground, though.
RUNNING GAME — B What a grind it was to get anything going on the ground against a....
