Bears Trick Play Featured More Than 3,200 Pounds of Beef
Little did we know that Matt Nagy’s bag of tricks would have some holiday flair.
With the Chicago Bears looking to add on to a precarious 8-6 lead, their head coach called upon a play that put everyone at Soldier Field in a celebratory mood:
The Bears’ newest trick play — the touchdown pass to tackle Bradley Sowell, featuring three defensive lineman — is called “Santa’s Sleigh” and was installed in the playbook Friday.
— Chris Emma (@CEmma670) December 10, 2018
And here’s the play:
Bet you didn't see this one coming. Or maybe you did. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
15-6, #DaBears! #LARvsCHI pic.twitter.com/ncARc0xKoI
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) December 10, 2018
Not bad for something cooked up and installed on a Friday!
Here is a different perspective on what it looked like with all that super-sized beef in motion:
The combined weight of all 11 @Bears players on Mitchell Trubisky's 2-yard TD Pass to offensive tackle Bradley Sowell was 3,288 lbs.
This is the heaviest offensive play since @Chiefs Dontari Poe’s TD Pass in 2016 (3,300 lbs).#CHIvsLAR #DaBears pic.twitter.com/ANxoYeGCR0
— Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) December 10, 2018
Look at the numbers on the field for this play!
In addition to 72, 68, 75, 78, and 70 – a.k.a. the offensive linemen you’ve grown to know and love in 2018 – the Bears added 90 (Jonathan Bullard), 95 (Roy Robertson-Harris), 96 (Akiem Hicks), 98 (Bilal Nichols), and 79 (Sowell). Talk about a full house backfield.
The audacity to run a play where the quarterback is the only skill-position player, use a defensive tackle to sell play action, and to have a defensive end (who used to be an outside linebacker) and a swing tackle as the only players to run patterns in the end zone is absurd. I can’t even. I mean, who even thinks of this stuff?
Seriously, how does this:
I still can’t get over the end result of this screen shot was a touchdown. pic.twitter.com/1Fil09z087
— Bleacher Nation Bears (@BN_Bears) December 10, 2018
… turn into this:
The only thing better than a big man TD?
A big man TD DANCE on #SNF pic.twitter.com/uVAIV2T5gJ
— SNF on NBC (@SNFonNBC) December 10, 2018
… and result in this:
You know what, I’m done asking questions. Let’s just enjoy the ride.
Because in a game that featured Todd Gurley, Brandin Cooks, Allen Robinson, Jordan Howard, and Tarik Cohen, that it’s Bradley Sowell getting a game ball for catching the game’s only touchdown in just makes sense.