Bears @ Vikings · Week 3 — SapphireSportz

WEEK 3 · FINAL

THE READ

Bears run away with it, 38-13

Chicago beat Minnesota 38-13, with Caleb Williams throwing 4 touchdown passes on 16 of 23 completions for 244 yards. Rome Odunze caught 2 passes for 97 yards and a score, while the Bears outgained the Vikings 370 to 323 total yards despite Minnesota running the ball for 144 yards on the ground. The decisive difference was through the air, where Chicago's 244 passing yards against Minnesota's 179 proved too much to overcome.

Talia Morgan Beat reporter

THE WIDER PICTURE

Team	SRS	SOS	MARGIN	TO +/-
Bears	-5.6	+1.9	-7.5	+2
Vikings	+0.6	-9.4	+10.0	+1

SRS is how many points a side beats an average team by once you account for who they played — beat a good team by 3 and it counts for more than beating a bad one by 20. SOS is how hard that schedule has been. Full table.

Vikings — NFC #4 · division · 3-2 Playoff picture →

In the MVP race

#6 J.J. McCarthy QB · Vikings · 1.9% of the field

The whole board →

IN THE BOOTH

Ava Collins Beat reporter

Minnesota came in 2-1 and left looking desperate—Demond Claiborne got 101 yards on the ground, but passing 42 times when you're getting nowhere downfield is how you lose by 25. Caleb Williams threw 4 touchdown passes for Chicago in the kind of afternoon that changes how a season feels, even if the Bears still need to string wins together to make it matter.

Jordan Hayes The armchair coach · replying

Chicago just showed what it's capable of when the passing game clicks, but Minnesota's real problem isn't today—it's that a division leader at 2-1 can't afford to lay an egg like this and stay in control of its own fate.

They only ever read the box score and this league's own numbers — none of them has a source, and none of them can report anything that did not happen.

Caleb Williams

Bears

16/23, 244 yards, 4 TD

Rome Odunze

Bears

2 catches, 97 yards, 1 TD

Demond Claiborne

Vikings

15 carries, 101 yards

THE STORY SO FAR

⭐ Demond Claiborne has not had a better afternoon this season.

⭐ Rome Odunze has not had a better afternoon this season.

WHAT DECIDED IT

Through the air Bears 244, Vikings 179 Bears

Total yards Bears 370, Vikings 323 Bears

On the ground Vikings 144, Bears 126 Vikings

Giveaways Vikings 1, Bears 0 Bears

THE ROOM Final. The recap is below.

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THE MATCHUP SCOUT every number below is counted from the export or read off the roster — nothing is inferred about playcalling

LEAGUE DATA counted by Madden, and arithmetic on top of it

Balanced Pass 59% · Rush 41% · 27.8 scored, 35.2 allowed

7.8 yds/att 54.7% completions 5.2 yds/carry 330.5 yds/game 1.0 giveaways/game 4.9% sack rate last 4: 1-3

Primary weapon: Luther Burden III WR — 29% of the receiving yards · DEPENDENCY MODERATE

SAPPHIRE METRICS QB efficiency 56 · Efficient Balance 91 Ball security 72 Back usage 30% QB runs 5.0/game

PERSONNEL off the roster — unit averages, best starters only

QB 94 WR 84 TE 87 RB 84 OL 83 DL 82 LB 80 DB 86

Best: Joe Thuney LG 98 Fastest: Zavion Thomas WR 96 SPD 12 at star dev or better

YOUR NOTEBOOK what you wrote about them — private, and never a Sapphire statistic

HOW THEY PLAY the man, not the franchise — only weeks the record attributes to him, this season

SAPPHIRESPORTZ.GG

Vikings · his last 5 games

Throws it Protects it

Pass / run62% / 38% Points for / against28.4 — 18.4 Margin+10.0 Giveaways a game0.8 Sacks taken3.1% of dropbacks Lead backDemond Claiborne · 8.0/g Top targetJeremiah Smith · 32% QB carries2.6 a game

Kitolito101

Bears · his last 4 games

Balanced Runs the quarterback One back

Pass / run59% / 41% Points for / against27.8 — 35.2 Margin-7.5 Giveaways a game1.0 Sacks taken4.9% of dropbacks Lead backD'Andre Swift · 14.0/g Top targetLuther Burden III · 29% QB carries5.0 a game

Counted from the weeks each man actually held his team — so a franchise that changed hands is not credited to whoever has it now. Nothing above is a playcall: the export does not carry those, and neither does this.

THE SERIES Kitolito101 against SAPPHIRESPORTZ.GG — the men, not the teams

Kitolito101 leads it 1-0. Kitolito101 won the last one.

1 meeting avg 38.0 — 13.0 biggest: 25 pts to Kitolito101

S2 · week 3 Kitolito101 38 — 13 SAPPHIRESPORTZ.GG KITOLITO101

Only meetings Sapphire can attribute to both men are counted — a Madden export never says who owned a team last season, so the series starts where the record does.

MATCHUP ADVANTAGES unit averages against each other — inside three points is a push

Bears receivers vs Vikings secondary 84 v 83 EVEN

Vikings receivers vs Bears secondary 90 v 86 VIKINGS

Bears line vs Vikings front 83 v 84 EVEN

Vikings line vs Bears front 83 v 82 EVEN

Bears backs vs Vikings run defence 84 v 82 EVEN

Vikings backs vs Bears run defence 80 v 82 EVEN

Bears passer vs Vikings secondary 94 v 83 BEARS

Vikings passer vs Bears secondary 82 v 86 BEARS

TOP PERFORMERS

Caleb Williams QB Bears 244 pass yds

J.J. McCarthy QB Vikings 179 pass yds

Demond Claiborne HB Vikings 101 rush yds

Rome Odunze WR Bears 97 rec yds

D'Andre Swift HB Bears 82 rush yds

Luther Burden III WR Bears 73 rec yds

Justin Jefferson WR Vikings 56 rec yds

Jeremiah Smith WR Vikings 53 rec yds

Dillon Thieneman SS Bears 1 INTs

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BOX SCORE

BEARS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Caleb Williams QB	16/23	244	4	0	3	84	143.8

VIKINGS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
J.J. McCarthy QB	23/42	179	1	1	2	25	63.4

BEARS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG
D'Andre Swift HB	16	82	5.1	0	3	32	24
Kyle Monangai HB	4	33	8.2	1	1	5	13
Caleb Williams QB	4	11	2.8	0	0	0	5
Luther Burden III WR	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Rome Odunze WR	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Colston Loveland TE	0	0	0	0	1	0	0

VIKINGS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	BTK	YAC	LNG
Demond Claiborne HB	15	101	6.7	4	39	27
Jordan Mason HB	7	26	3.7	0	0	8
J.J. McCarthy QB	4	17	4.2	0	0	8
Jeremiah Smith WR	0	0	0	1	0	0

BEARS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	LNG
Rome Odunze WR	2	97	48.5	1	80	84
Luther Burden III WR	6	73	12.2	2	30	25
Devaughn Vele WR	1	30	30	0	6	30
Zavion Thomas WR	4	26	6.5	0	3	12
Colston Loveland TE	2	16	8	1	2	9
D'Andre Swift HB	1	2	2	0	4	2

VIKINGS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	DRP	LNG
Justin Jefferson WR	6	56	9.3	0	6	0	24
Jeremiah Smith WR	7	53	7.6	0	12	0	25
Tai Felton WR	3	30	10	1	9	0	12
Jordan Mason HB	4	16	4	0	5	0	8
T.J. Hockenson TE	1	12	12	0	5	3	12
Demond Claiborne HB	2	12	6	0	6	1	10

BEARS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	INT	PD	CMP ALW
Ruben Hyppolite II WILL	6	0.5	0	0	5
Maxwell Hairston CB	6	0	0	0	5
Coby Bryant FS	5	0	0	1	1
Emmanuel Forbes Jr CB	5	0	0	3	3
Jaylon Johnson CB	4	0	0	0	3
Dillon Thieneman SS	4	0	1	0	3
Stephen Griffin FS	4	0	0	0	1
Devin Bush MIKE	3	0	0	0	2
T.J. Edwards WILL	3	0	0	0	0
John Walker DT	3	0	0	0	0
Myles Murphy REDG	2	1	0	0	0
Austin Booker LEDG	1	0	0	0	0
Abraham Beauplan WILL	1	0	0	0	0
Montez Sweat LEDG	0	0.5	0	0	0

VIKINGS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	PD	CMP ALW
Isaiah Rodgers Sr CB	7	0	0	4
Jake Golday MIKE	6	0	0	1
Blake Cashman MIKE	5	0.5	0	2
Malik Mustapha FS	4	0	0	4
Dallas Turner LEDG	3	0	0	0
Josh Metellus SS	3	0	0	1
Byron Murphy Jr CB	2	0	0	4
Ivan Pace Jr WILL	1	0	0	0
Eric Wilson WILL	1	0	0	0
Benjamin Morrison CB	1	0.5	0	0
Andrew Van Ginkel REDG	1	1	0	0
Caleb Banks DT	1	1	0	0
Levi Drake Rodriguez DT	0	0	1	0

BEARS

PLAYER	FG	XP	LNG
Tory Taylor P	1/1	5/5	51

VIKINGS

PLAYER	FG	XP	LNG
Will Reichard K	2/2	1/1	48

RECENT FORM

Bears

L 17–46 vs 49ers WK 2

L 28–31 vs Saints WK 1

Vikings

W 38–0 vs Lions WK 2

W 28–3 vs Commanders WK 1

TEAM STATS

Bears		Vikings
370	TOTAL YARDS	323
244	PASSING YARDS	179
126	RUSHING YARDS	144
3	SACKS ALLOWED	2
2	SACKS MADE	3
0	GIVEAWAYS	1
1	TAKEAWAYS	0

Bold is the side that won that line. Giveaways come off a team's own offensive rows and takeaways off its own defensive rows — two separate payloads, so they need not tie out against each other.

ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD

1 BEARS — 0 VIKINGS

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