You're supposed to do that to bad teams

The Bears put a whuppin' on the Panthers.

You're supposed to do that to bad teams

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So, this is what it’s supposed to look like? You can dismiss the Bears’ manhandling of the Panthers as just beating up on a bad team, but isn’t that what good teams are supposed to do to bad teams?

The physical embodiment of quarterbacking mediocrity, former Bear (of course) Andy Dalton was leading a 1-3 Carolina team into town and anything short of a smackdown wouldn’t suffice.

And the Bears delivered the smack down.

Sure, the Panthers led 7-0 in the first quarter, but the Bears scored the next 30 and should have had even more.

They outgained the Panthers 424 yards to 292. They held Carolina to 14 first downs. Caleb Williams averaged more than twice as many yards per pass (9.9) than Dalton and Bryce Young combined (4.4). The Bears forced three turnovers and didn’t commit any. They outsacked the Panthers four to one, and they both had one player kicked out of the game for a sad little fight the Panthers started when the Bears scored to go up 36 to 10.1

The Bears defensive domination was so thorough (except for that one, annoying 38 yard touchdown run by Chuba Hubbard in the first quarter) that at one point Dalton had completed seven of eight passes for 15 yards. Not 50 yards. Fifteen. The Bears haven’t seen anything that anemic since…well, since Andy Dalton played for them.

Because these are the Bears there were still some, “What the fuck is that?” moments.