Odunze\u2019s fourth touchdown reception<\/a> of the season.<\/p>\n\u201cMan, he was playing ball,\u201d Odunze said of his quarterback. \u201cIn the pocket, outside the pocket. Making plays with his feet. All different types of things. That\u2019s the talent that he is and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll continue to do so moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burden\u2019s touchdown came on the following offensive possession, which went down as a one-play, 65-yard drive. The rookie led the Bears with three catches for 101 yards and a score. After halftime, the Bears offense showed some versatility. The defense forced a punt and the Bears took over, leading by 10. Johnson saw an opportunity for a different type of drive.<\/p>\n
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The Bears grinded out a 19-play, 76-yard touchdown drive that ate up nearly 10 minutes of clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the type of drive you need to have against offenses like that,\u201d Swift said. \u201cYou just want to keep them on the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n
At one point, Johnson called 11 consecutive run plays.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhew, it was tiring, especially because he kept calling those specialty plays with me,\u201d right tackle Darnell Wright told the Tribune. \u201cSo I was running all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But when Wright looked across the line of scrimmage, he saw a defensive line that was gassed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can definitely see it wearing them out,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n
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The Bears faced a fourth-and-goal from the 4-yard line. There was no hesitation from Johnson, who kept his offense on the field. Williams scrambled to his right and connected with Moore for his fourth touchdown pass of the day. There was still a quarter left to play, but the drive felt like a game-winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a gritty, gritty drive,\u201d Odunze said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt definitely gashes them,\u201d Burden said. \u201cI know they were pretty gassed.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the game, Burden ended his media session with a primal scream \u2014 perhaps putting on a show for his teammates around him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been itching to get to the end zone, man,\u201d Burden said. \u201cI love the end zone, man. I love it! AHHHHHH!\u201d<\/p>\n
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He found the end zone Sunday for the first time, but probably not the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luther Burden and Caleb Williams worked on the play all week. Burden understood his assignment. It was all…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":245488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,10809,18264,18263,531,37145,55270,13555,1596,8998,55271,38920,7310,33858,18265,74780,18267,358,62842,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-245487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-ben-johnson","11":"tag-caleb-williams","12":"tag-chicago-bears","13":"tag-cole-kmet","14":"tag-dandre-swift","15":"tag-dak-prescott","16":"tag-dallas","17":"tag-dallas-cowboys","18":"tag-darnell-wright","19":"tag-dj-moore","20":"tag-jacksonville","21":"tag-kaiir-elam","22":"tag-luther-burden","23":"tag-malik-hooker","24":"tag-rome-odunze","25":"tag-texas","26":"tag-touchdown-pass","27":"tag-tx","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115246050060613598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}