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DETROIT — For all the excitement and promise that led up to it, the Bears collapsed confoundingly and undercut whatever they thought they had accomplished Sunday against the Lions.
The end was exhaustingly familiar, with quarterback Justin Fields getting blindsided as he fumbled the ball out of the back of the end zone in the final phase of the Bears’ unraveling in a 31-26 loss at Ford Field.
As Fields dropped back to his own 15-yard line, Hutchinson bull rushed through rookie right tackle Darnell Wright, chopped the ball out of Fields’ hand for a strip-sack, chased it into the end zone and punted it into a crowd that had already exploded in delight.