Dan Wiederer: Chicago Bears’ loss to the Minnesota Vikings — after a brutal start and a spirited comeback — is ‘hard to swallow’
MINNEAPOLIS — All across the visitors locker room at U.S. Bank Stadium, the dismay was obvious. As hard as Chicago Bears players tried to embrace their spirited comeback effort Sunday — a rally from 18 points down to take a fourth-quarter lead — the result remained too painful. Minnesota Vikings 29, Bears 22. Safety Eddie Jackson slumped in front of his locker stall. “These losses are hard to ...
MINNEAPOLIS — All across the visitors locker room at U.S. Bank Stadium, the dismay was obvious. As hard as Chicago Bears players tried to embrace their spirited comeback effort Sunday — a rally from 18 points down to take a fourth-quarter lead — the result remained too painful.
Minnesota Vikings 29, Bears 22.
Safety Eddie Jackson slumped in front of his locker stall.
“These losses are hard to swallow, man,” he said. “It’s a tough loss, especially when we put in that work. Continuing to go out there and come up short just sucks.”
Linebacker Roquan Smith was fuming.
“This all comes back to execution,” he said. “And we didn’t execute.”
It wasn’t just that dispiriting final score,
