That was a more entertaining game than I had expected between these teams, and I look forward to finding out who used the Football Team in Survivor.

I’m dreading looking up which of my teams was facing Justin Fields and especially DJ Moore. People were so quick to pile on Fields after the first three games, but if you watched the guy play last year, you knew he wasn’t a deer-in-headlights type. He can play.

Every time Fields threw to Moore, it was a huge play. Every time he targeted Darnell Mooney it was just out of reach.

Whenever the Bears got to 3rd-and-7, they could just hand it off to Khalil Herbert who easily got the first down every time. Unfortunately, both he and Roschon Johnson both got hurt. Wonder if we see D’Onta Foreman next week. I could easily see him going off for 100 yards and two scores against the Vikings.

I thought about picking up Sam Howell this week for the matchup, was glad I hadn’t in the first half, but now realize I should have — 388 passing yards, 2 TD, 18 rush yards and a two-point conversion. Howell isn’t that fast, but he fights for extra yardage like he’s Deebo Samuel.

I get Pennyslot Ron kicking the field goal to cut the deficit from 16 to 13 early in the fourth quarter — it’s one thing to say “two-score game” but quite another to convert two two-point conversions just to tie. At 13, two TDs with PATs wins, and when the Bears kicked a FG on their next drive, the game was still alive, as the Team was only down two scores still. But it must have been a kick in the nuts to the offense to settle for three after Howell moved Mount Everest on third down to make it a manageable 4th-and-3.

I could never find a TE for my Dynasty League, so I traded for Taysom Hill who I started with Logan Thomas (11-9-77-1) on my bench this week.

Eleven players caught passes for the Team. Terry McLaurin was invisible for most of the game. At one point, I thought he might be hurt.

I had picked up the Team in a few leagues to start their defense this week. Luckily, I swapped them out at the last minute in two of them. (Had a bad vibe about Fields going off.)

The 40-minute edited version of the games continues to be plagued by instant replays. You don’t mind in real time because it happens between plays, and there’s so much down time anyway, but it kills the rhythm and is super annoying. Yes, I see the safety was untouched and sacked the quarterback now from three angles. It really did happen, I believe you, you don’t need to show it to me again. FFS, just move it along already.