Quick Reaction: Chicago Bears

What it implies: Game on for the Detroit Lions in the Nfc North title race. The Lions fouled up by losing at Philadelphia on Sunday and opened the entryway for Chicago to get go into the race. The Bears kicked it open by destroying the Cowboys. The Lions close the season with Baltimore and the New York Giants at home, before playing the finale at Minnesota on Dec. 29. One Lions error could prompt the Bears sneaking without end with the division in the event that they can uphold energy. 

Exploit the most diminutive accidents: That's what the home group did in the first half. After Chicago took a 17-14 focal point on Robbie Gould's 27-yard field objective with 1:38 left in the first half, the Dallas Cowboys had three incompletions on the following drive, which permitted the Bears to bring ownership again with 47 ticks remaining. 

Rather than sitting on the three-focus lead, the Bears crushed on the gas with Josh Mccown hitting Alshon Jeffery - who was being hung by two protectors - for a 25-yard touchdown with 17 seconds left to go up 24-14. With the speedy score, the Bears went into the locker room at the half with force.

What was better for the Bears is they got this show on the road the ball once again to begin the second half, and scored on that drive too to go up 27-14 on a Gould 34-yard field objective.

Strong Wrs: Jeffery and Brandon Marshall turned into the first set of Chicago recipients to increase 1,000 yards each since 1995 (Curtis Conway and Jeff Graham). Jeffery entered the diversion with 70 gets for 1,109 yards, yet Marshall required 10 yards against the Cowboys to achieve 1,000.

With Marshall heading the path with 100 yards on six gatherings, the team joined together for 184 yards and a Td.

Mccown pinpoint precise: Mccown began Monday night's amusement by interfacing on 8 of 10 passes for 145 yards on tosses voyaging more than 10 yards in the first half. The quarterback's eight profound culminations in the first half tied the most Mccown had finished in one diversion.

Mccown's play permitted the Bears to reel off 24 focuses in the first half, which is a considerable contrast recognizing the Bears hadn't scored more than 23 focuses in any of their past four trips heading into Monday night.

Mccown finalized with a passer rating of 141.9, finishing 27 of 36 passes for 348 yards, four touchdowns and no block attempts to run with a hurrying Td. He's passed for 1,055 yards in the course of the last three diversions with eight Tds and stand out Int.

What's next: The Chicago Bears take the three day weekend Tuesday before coming back to the offices to start arrangements Wednesday for Sunday's diversion at Cleveland. The Bears face a short turnaround in the first of once more to-country byway diversions soon after the Dec. 29 season finale against the Green Bay Packers.

Phil Dawson's leg lifts Niners, keeps Seahawks from fixing division

The San Francisco 49ers are a long way from prepared to hand over their two-year division rule - and absolutely not on their home field, where they once in a while lose against the Nfc West.

Phil Dawson kicked a 22-yard field objective with 26 seconds remaining and the Niners held off the Seahawks 19-17 on Sunday, denying Seattle an opportunity to secure the division at Candlestick Park

"We're playing for our lives," wideout Anquan Boldin said. "We're playing playoff football at this moment. It's win or go home."

Gut broke for his huge pick up with only more than four minutes left, starting the key 11-play, 76-yard drive that helped the 49ers (9-4) stop the playoff-bound Seahawks (11-2) from getting without end the West in San Francisco.

Dawson's fourth field objective gave him 20 fruitful endeavors consecutively, an establishment record fixing Joe Nedney's 18 continuous breaks in 2006-07.

Russell Wilson tossed a 39-yard touchdown go to Luke Willson and Marshawn Lynch ran for a 11-yard score for Seattle, denied an establishment best sixth street triumph in its fifth straight misfortune at The 'Stick.

"I don't know whether it was their Super Bowl, however they played an extraordinary diversion," Seahawks protective finish Red Bryant said.

The 49ers are unbeaten at home against the West since losing to the Seahawks on Oct. 26, 2008.

In a zealously filled evening of missed chances and unreasonable punishments, this competition diversion more than satisfied the buildup.

"Appreciate it? Not the statement I might utilization. It's like heading off to the dental practitioner seat for 3½ hours and getting a root waterway," 49ers mentor Jim Harbaugh said. "These recreations are just for the extreme."

Eric Wright, who quickly left the amusement with a head damage, caught a last-trench profound pass by Wilson with 9 seconds left to seal it.

The two junior quarterbacks fulfilled with about the same details. Wilson went 15 of 25 for 199 yards and a touchdown with one block attempt, while partner Colin Kaepernick tossed for 175 yards and finished 15 of his 29 passes with a Td and a block attempt.

Vernon Davis got a 8-yard touchdown pass simply before halftime to give San Francisco some energy.

After a home defeat of New Orleans on Monday night, the Seahawks were attempting to make it two mammoth charm Nfc powers in seven days. They harm themselves numerous times down the stretch.

Resplendent Tate helped put the Seahawks ahead halfway through the final quarter with a 38-yard punt return. Wilson then hit Jermaine Kearse for a 14-yard pick up and first down from the 24. Be that as it may on third down from the 13, Wilson was compelled to toss outside the alloted boundaries under weight.

Seattle settled for Steven Hauschka's 31-yard field objective that stayed just inside the left upright with 6:20 remaining.

While Lynch headed over 1,000 yards hurrying for the third straight season and fifth in his seven-year vocation, he backed off in the second half. He wound up with 72 yards on 20 conveys - only 22 yards in the second half - as the 49ers barrier kept whole its streak of not permitting a 100-yard rusher this season.

"It's December and we're playing our best football," linebacker Navorro Bowman said. "There's something about this amusement that obliged a full 60 minutes of football."

Kaepernick recouped from an interference late in the second from last quarter with the 49ers profound in Seattle region. Immediately helped by Donte Whitner's 15-yard insulting punishment against Lynch, it returned right three plays later on Michael Robinson's facemask banner and Seattle punted.

With Lamichael James getting the punt, O'brien Schofield knock James and appropriated a 15-yard reasonable get impedance punishment. That began San Francisco's drive at the 48 however the 49ers went three and out.

The Seahawks had won seven consecutively since an Oct. 6 misfortune at Indianapolis. They likewise had taken their last two gatherings with the 49ers, both at home, by outscoring San Francisco 71-16 - 29-3 in Week 2.

Boldin had six gets for 93 yards for his fourth straight amusement with no less than five gatherings.

Notwithstanding, the Niners understand they most likely will make an alternate trek to the Pacific Northwest and get by the Seahawks to come back to the Super Bowl.

"In the event that we continue doing our thing and they continue doing their thing, no inquiry," Gore said.

Bonnie and Clyde: Can the History Channel escape with this?

Your response to this bloated change will hinge on upon what level of tainting you are ready to see went to on a dearest examplary.

To even ponder viewing the History Channel's Bonnie and Clyde, you should first acknowledge two appalling truths: yes, they truly made this and no, right now in the generation cycle, you can't do anything to stop it.

What potential viewers should choose – much as they accomplished for Nbc's live Sound of Music a week ago – is precisely what level of defilement they're ready to see went to upon a dearest examplary. Is your great sense regularly overruled by showcases of lovely outfits and an exceptional out-dated molded auto pursue? At that point yes, this is the change for you.

Anyway provided that you're an aficionado of the 1967 film featuring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, stay away. What's more assuming that you have even a passing recognition with the genuine story of Clyde Dumpcart and Bonnie Parker …  stay far, far away.

The History Channel's methodology here is to make it as challenging as could be allowed to abstain from viewing this form. Airing in two parts crosswise over Sunday and Monday nights, Bonnie and Clyde is assuming control over three systems: History, A&e and Lifetime. The give incorporates Emile Hirsch a part as Clyde and Holliday Granger as Bonnie, and Holly Seeker and William Damage as the Foundation Grant winning performing artists who are apparently being paid great to loan a trustworthiness to this shiny venture.

Toward the conclusion of the first half-hour, you start to have a sense for how this film was assembled: the executives of three systems, having met in a nonpartisan area, consented to the essentials however left it to authors Joe Bateer and John Rice to switch designer enough movement to fill four hours of primetime. They were woefully unassuming for the errand.

Everything in this motion picture has been carried out better some place else. We have such a large number of great samples of movies and television arrangement that process the Despondency period's wrongdoing waves – The Untouchables, the definitive Bonnie and Clyde, Open Adversaries, Footpath Realm – that its outlandish not to make examinations that end inadequately for this revamp, regardless of how pretty the ensembles are.

Be that as it may the generation isn't even substance to keep its burglaries to the fitting period. There's what the essayists presumably trusted was an enchanting scene in which Clyde, flush with the cash from his first theft, strolls into an extravagant clothes store, looking to use it. A selling specialist investigates his homestead duds, sniffs her nose and requests that him please not get his grimy hands everywhere on her silks. It's Julia Roberts on Rodeo Drive onto every part of once more, yet in place of giving the assistant her comeuppance ("Enormous tangle! Huge!"), he holds up until dim and breaks in, to take the five shirts he needed.

This is four hours of missed chances in which a scene is advanced, just about tap-moves to a fulfilling applaud …  and goes into disrepair rather.

There are feminist diagrams to this Bonnie Parker, who contrasts herself with Amelia Earhart and determines the nearby news people know she's in the diversion just as much as Clyde. Anyway she is injured by essayists who appear to have picked up their comprehension of woman's rights from frat houses and men's rights gatherings on the darkest corners of the web.

The subreddit very nearly composes itself: Clyde adores his guardians, his mother particularly. It's simply that the lady he adores, the lady he's looked for since youth, drives him into this life of wrongdoing. She's a shrew who ruffles around in her luxurious underwear, gets turned on via auto pursues and companion zones the nearby sheriff. ("I've got enough damn companions," he says, soon after she turns him down.) This Bonnie is a dismissed performer who only needs to make a name for herself by one means or another, and Clyde is so stricken it would be impossible perceive that she doesn't adore him almost to the extent that he cherishes her.

"I'm not anxious about a pledge," Clyde tells Bonnie at one focus. "I ain't anxious about making an infant." She grimaces.

There are strings that could have spared the film: Elisabeth Reaser as the writer who locks on to the story first; Seeker as Bonnie's extreme however adoring mother; Mischief as a peaceful lawman attracted out of retirement to track down the criminals. With four hours to fill, the time was unquestionably accessible to dedicate to following these characters. Rather, the additional time is used waiting on Hirsch and Granger, with their awful Texas stresses and close finish absence of flash.

The wrongdoing here isn't that they've had the nerve to revamp Bonnie and Clyde – its simple

Using once more, Mets Bait Granderson

The point when Curtis Granderson said prior without much fanfare that he had the salmon while eating with Mets General Chief Sandy Alderson, the remark, very nearly typically, transformed into comic material. The Mets couldn't bear to offer Granderson a steak, the Twitter jokes went. The Mets needed to part the bill. Also obviously Granderson wound up consuming salmon; the Mets, when its all said and done, are continually swimming upstream.

For Alderson's first three seasons as general chief, it has absolutely appeared that way. With the Mets attempting to get out from under their money related issues, Alderson was not ready to use much. The off-seasons might arrive, and Alderson might sign players to small time bargains or $2 million or $3 million agreement. Little stuff. Forgettable arrangements. Discouraging, provided that you were a Mets fan.

At one focus, Scott Boras, the diversion's most compelling operator, mockingly watched that the Mets were shopping in the "products of the soil" segment of the general store.

So far as that is concerned, Alderson punched at his own particular group, kidding at one focus that he might hold a store raiser for gas cash with the goal that he could head to spring preparing.

Anyway on Friday, the clowning, and the penny-squeezing, arrived at a close. Despite anything that might have happened before since assuming control in October 2010, Alderson stayed his and the Mets' necks out and used noteworthy cash on a free-executor player.

The beneficiary was Granderson, Alderson's lunch accomplice keep going Sunday, who consented to a four-year, $60 million arrangement that will permit him to essentially move his apparatus from the Bronx to Monarchs. The Mets trust he can show the force he demonstrated in 2011 and 2012 as a Yankee, when he hit a consolidated 84 homers before using a significant part of the 2013 season on the incapacitated record with hand and arm damages.

The cash for the 32-year-old Granderson could not hope to compare to the $240 million in the 10-year bargain that an alternate ex-Yankee, Robinson Cano, consented to on Friday with the Seattle Sailors, yet for the Mets, $60 million was an overdo it. It is five times the measure of the most amazing free-operator contract Alderson had approved throughout the previous three winters — an unfortunate two-year, $12 million arrangement he gave reliever Plain Francisco — and indicates that the Mets, after a long hibernation, are at long last eager to do what different groups consistently do: take a risk.

Granderson, they trust, will legitimize the danger.

As a left-gave force bat he might be matched with the right-gave hitting David Wright amidst the lineup, despite the fact that Granderson's .261 profession normal barely makes him an immaculate fit there.

A great opposing player and a core fielder in terms of professional career, Granderson likewise sets the Mets' outfield, which might as well now comprise of him in left, the amazing 2013 tenderfoot Juan Lagares in focus, and Chris Youthful, who as of late marked an one-year, $7.25 million agreement, in right.

Adolescent hits right-gave however in different ways mirrors Granderson. Both are exceptional runners and robust protective players who can hit with force, however they likewise strike out a considerable measure, which could posture issues in amassing a successful 2014 lineup.

In light of the fact that Granderson played in the Bronx the last four seasons, the Mets most likely were acquainted with his notoriety as an amicable, magnanimous player, and it is conceivable they will look to rapidly make him a face of the group as they attempt to reconstruct a dissolving fan base.

A third-round pick by Detroit in the 2002 draft, Granderson turned into the Tigers' general focus fielder in 2006, when they headed off to the Planet Arrangement. He was obtained by the Yankees in December 2009 in a three-manner exchange that additionally included the Arizona Diamondbacks. Granderson had an unassuming first season in the Bronx yet then blasted for 41 grand slams( (and 119 runs batted in) in 2011. It was a vocation high in homers, however he finished it in 2012 with 43 while driving in 106 runs.

Two disasters sideswiped his 2013 season. Struck by a contribute spring preparing, he wound up with a broken right lower arm. After he returned, he was hit by an alternate contribute May, this time breaking the knuckle on his left pinkie. Taking all things together, he missed 101 diversions and hit only seven homers, while batting .229, the least characteristic of his vocation.

The Mets can just trust that Granderson's energy will interpret to Citi Field, in spite of the fact that it is scarcely as agreeable as Yankee Stadium is for a homer hitter. On the other hand, the Mets likewise play 81 amusements out and about. What's more if nothing else, Granderson's vicinity as a veteran player with a great deal of postseason experience could pay profits on a group with a great deal of more youthful players as of now attempting to uncover their direction. What's more the pitching staff may as well likely host a gathering to praise its new, protectively remarkable outfield.

Alderson has now dedicated harshly $23 million in one year from now's payroll to modify his outfield ("What outfield?" he clowned in the relatively recent past). What's more he now has choices with Eric Junior, who was the left-fielder for much of 2013 and now turns into a profitable fourth outfielder/pinch-hitter/pinch-runner unless he is moved to a respectable halfway point. In the event that that were to happen, Daniel Murphy could be put on the exchanging piece or moved to first.

Alderson still needs a veteran pitcher to round out a beginning staff that will be lost Matt Harvey this season. Alderson might likewise need to add to his warm up area, and he probably has at any rate some cash left to use on those necessities. Anyway if nothing else, getting Granderson makes the Mets look sort of rel