Week 11 Pre-Gamin’: BEARS at RAMS (7:20 CT) – Lineups, Broadcast Info, Game Thread

Tonight’s game between the Bears and Rams is a “Loser Leaves Town” match between two peas in a pod.

Two teams who are led by the last two NFL Coach of the Year winners, quarterbacks who were the first to go off the board in their respective classes and have Pro Bowl appearances on their résumés, and defenses who have Defensive Player of the Year plaques on their respective walls should have made for a dandy of a Sunday Night Football showdown. Instead, both coaches are fighting losing battles while trying to lead their respective offenses out of their struggles. Both quarterbacks have been smacked with the regression stick. And neither defense has come up with enough stops to over-compensate for the short-comings of their offensive counterparts.

And yet, NBC still kept Bears-Rams as its game of the week. Maybe it is because these storylines playing out in front of a nationally televised audience is a script not even Hollywood could ignore.

This might be the last time the Bears are in prime-time this year, so we might as well get hyped for it.

LET’S GO:

 

Game Info

Chicago Bears (4-5 3rd NFC North) at Los Angeles Rams (5-4, 3rd NFC West), 7:20 CT, NBC-TV (Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michelle Tafoya), WBBM-AM 780 and WCFS-FM 105.9 (Jeff Joniak, Tom Thayer, Mark Grote), ESPN Radio (Adam Amin, Jack Del Rio, Sal Paolantonio)

Odds: Rams (-6), Over/Under 40, via the Westgate Superbook in Las Vegas.

Game Thread and Week 11 Preview

Your game thread is down in the comments, so let’s have some good, clean (safe-for-work) fun. Let’s see if the Bears can make it two-in-a-row.

Your Week 11 Preview lives here.

Coaches

Matt Nagy (16-9) vs. Sean McVay (29-12)

Starting Quarterbacks

Bears: Mitch Trubisky

Last week vs. Lions: 16-23 (69.57%), 173 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT, 131.0 rating

versus

Rams: Jared Goff

Last week at Steelers: 22-41 (53.66%), 243 yards, 0 TD, 2 INT, 51.2 rating

Bears Inactives:

https://twitter.com/chicagobears/status/1196213836916748288?s=21

Bears Expected Offensive Starters

  • QB Mitch Trubisky
  • RB David Montgomery
  • WR Allen Robinson II
  • WR Taylor Gabriel
  • WR Anthony Miller
  • TE Ben Braunecker
  • LT Charles Leno Jr.
  • LG James Daniels
  • C Cody Whitehair
  • RG Rashaad Coward
  • RT Bobby Massie
  • Bears Expected Defensive Starters

  • DT Bilal Nichols
  • NT Eddie Goldman
  • DE Roy Robertson-Harris
  • OLB Khalil Mack
  • ILB Nick Kwiatkoski
  • ILB Roquan Smith
  • OLB Leonard Floyd
  • CB Kyle Fuller
  • CB Prince Amukamara
  • S Eddie Jackson
  • S Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Bears Specialists

  • Eddy Piñeiro (kicker), Pat O’Donnell (punter, holder), Patrick Scales (long snapper), Cordarrelle Patterson (kick returner), Tarik Cohen (punt returner)
  • Rams Inactives:

    Rams Offense Expected Starters:

  • QB Jared Goff
  • RB Todd Gurley II
  • WR Josh Reynolds
  • WR Cooper Kupp
  • TE Gerald Everett
  • TE Tyler Higbee
  • LT Andrew Whitworth
  • LG Jamil Demby
  • C Coleman Shelton
  • RG Austin Blythe
  • RT Bobby Evans
  • Rams Defense Expected Starters:

  • LDE Michael Brockers
  • NT Sebastian Joseph-Day
  • RDE Aaron Donald
  • WLB Clay Matthews
  • ILB Cory Littleton
  • ILB Troy Reeder
  • SLB Dante Fowler Jr.
  • LCB Troy Hill
  • RCB Jalen Ramsey
  • FS Eric Weddle
  • SS Marqui Christian
  • Rams Specialists:

  • Greg Zuerlein (kicker), Johnny Hekker (punter, holder), Jake McQuaide (long snapper), JoJo Natson (kick, punt returns)
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    Luis C. Medina, who you can find on Twitter at lcm1986, has been covering the Chicago Bears at Bleacher Nation since 2017. Since then, he has written about 3 head coaches, 5 play-callers, and 11 starting quarterbacks. Previously, Luis wrote about the Cubs and MLB at BN (2015-16) and worked in the Chicago Tribune sports department (2011-16). He also co-hosted a Cubs postgame show, Outside the Ivy, in 2019.

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