The Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks had a late start time tonight for their NFL preseason schedule football game, and one of the two teams played as if it forgot to show up. Seattle entered the preseason looking to overcome some key personnel departures in the name of defending its Super Bowl title. Chicago has been looking to gel in its second season under head coach Marc Trestman as he attempts to revitalize the career of quarterback Jay Cutler, who just signed a major contract extension and will now seek to show that he’s earned it. In the end, tonight’s final score wasn’t even close.
Russell Wilson was in postseason form for Seattle tonight, going 15 of 20 with two touchdown scores, and the Seahawks had 118 yards rushing to along with it. But the scoring was all one sided. Jay Cutler took a step backward for Chicago, going 12 of 20 with one interception, and his backups Jimmy Clausen and Jordan Palmer looked equally mediocre for the Bears. On a night where nothing went right for Chicago, Seattle’s only concern was that its backup QBs Tarvaris Jackson and Terrelle Pryor also fared fairly poorly.
The Seattle Seahawks were the winner of the Chicago Bears by a final score of 34-6, which would have been a shutout if not for a pair of field goals in the final six minutes. The next game on the Seahawks schedule is at the Oakland Raiders on Thursday night, while the next scheduled Bears game is at the Cleveland Browns, also on Thursday night.