The Cowboys started the game with the ball and they seemed able to march down the field easly with the notorius trio Murray Romo and Dez who started so well but they slow down in Bears territory and a Willie Young sack knocked them out of FG range. Chicago run the ball on 1st and 2nd down near everytime on powerful formations like the I formation or a strong formation but the Cowboys defense put on the field the aggressivness and the toughness necessary to stop Forte and Bears' inability to pass down field forced them to punt the ball. Dallas tried to run with inside runs on the right side of their o-line with decent result but Romo inaccurancy passing the ball on 3rd down to a wide open in the middle of the field forced them to punt again the ball. The Bears understood that they needed to hyde their intent to let Forte run the ball and started with a shotgun formation but a very attent Cowboys' defense stop again Forte and for the 2nd straight time they punted the ball, Cowboys' LB Bruce Carter deflected the punt and let his team recover the ball near midfield. Dallas rode Murray on their 3rd offensive drive, coacj Garrett made the right choice when he left his offense stay on the field on a 4th and 1 on Chicago's 13 yard line putting 2 TEs on the right side to keep the pressure off the middle to let the Murray's drive be sucessefully, it was the 1st of 2 4th down conversion of that drive, the 2nd has been a 4th and goal from an half yard line converted again by Murray after a good reception by Cole Beasley. Cutler made a great pass down field on a vertical seem to Brandon Marshall who made an amazing circus kind of catch controlling the ball with just 1 hand between 2 Cowboys DBs for an huge gain, the great connection between Cutler and Marshall who is great since the time of Denver continue to be great once again when on a 4th down Marshall made the catch to convert it, Marshall received a big hit and has been forced to leave the field and TE Martellus Bennett punished his former team receiving a TD on a vertical seem to tie the game. Dallas regained the ead after a very decisive drive started with more Murray and then for an esigence of time they continue with shotgun formations and in particular with the spread formation being aknowledge of the coverage that the Bears would use and they were right so they found TE Jason Witten a couple of times covered by LOLB Bostic, they finally reached the endzone with Beasley who run the same OUT route he run last time in the last drive on the same situation but this time the Bears defense haven't been able to stop him before he crossed the TD's line.
The 2nd half has been characteryzed by 2 very bad news for the Bears, the 1st was that Marshall has been taken to the Hospital with the ambulance due to a ribs injury after he received a knee on his back and the 2nd one was that Forte fumble the ball after a good gain after he received a ball on a flat route due to the great affort of Spencer who forced it and of Moore who advanced the ball. Beasley score his 2nd TD of the game on a beautiful play made by Romo who avoided Willie Young sack and rolling on his right made a precise pass that allowed Beasley to score. Romo made another very good pass for near 40 yards to Dez Bryant who made an amazing catch jumping high in the sky to get the ball over both CB Fueller and FS Conte on a fly route. Romo didn't seem satisfied and made another perfect pass on the back of the endzone to let their former 1st round pick TE Escobar score a receiving TD. Cutler under so much pressure by the defict of 21 points and the Dallas Defense has been unable to move the ball down field and the Cowboys took advantage of that situation and they assested the KO punch with the duo Murray and Randle who completely destroyed the bears defense on the ground, Randle shown all his elusivness on the TD run when he made miss 2 Bears' players who tried to tackle him. At the beginning of the 4th quarter Cutler found Jeffery in the endzone on a fly route 1 on 1 against CB Brandon Carr even thanks to a suspicious holding on the back of the Carr's jersey. Church made another great play on his game blocking the additional point of newcome Feeley. The Bears tried to continue to their momentum tryin an onside kick but they failed it and that means Dallas had the ball roght on midfield. Murray continue his assault to the Chicago Bears with a 43 yards run who take his team inside Chicago's 10 yards but they didn0t capitalyzed that situation completely due to a huge loss of yards by Murray so they let Bailey kick succesfully his 1st FG of the night. Cutler built another scoring drive with short passes and well finalyzed by a very short TD run by Forte. Chicago tried another onside kick and this time it resulted successeful (the 1st for the since 03) and thet scored with a rushing TD by Cutler. Dallas put up other 3 points after a drive full of Murray's runs. Cutler continue the comeback with a decisise no huddle offense targeting his favorite player on the field Jeffery who had a very good 2nd half. Cutler wasted all the great job done before being intercepted in the endzone by Orlando Scandrick who covered Morgan on a post route.
Chicago's defense after a very good 1st quarter has been unable to stop Cowboys running game and they gave up too many big plays on the ground along with 2 TDs, Chicago also played a very good defense against Bryant using their FS Chris Conte to help CB Kyle Fueller over the top on a double coverage on deep passes, unfortunately for Chicago their secondary didn't pay the same attention to a very good Beasley who ended the game with 2 TDs and being a very reliable offensive target for Romo. Cutler played a good game driving the ball own field without his favorite target Brandon Marshall who missed all the 2nd half due to a ribs injury, so he made Jeffery his go to guy with very good results. Cowboys offensive line won the battle on the line of screemage since a balanced 1st quarter. I give my MVP throphy to RB DeMarco Murray who had an huge game and finished with 179 yards with the avg of 5.6 per carry on the ground and 49 yards on the air providing clutch big plays who has been so important for the Cowboys all game long and especially on the 2nd half.
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