Frank Gore (chest) shows up on Colts’ injury report

The Bears’ interceptions came from Jacoby Glenn and Deiondre’ Hall, one a former undrafted free agent and the other a rookie fourth-round draft pick playing just his fourth National Football League game. A Connor Barth field goal made it 17-6 with under six minutes remaining in the game, but the Lions refused to go down without a fight.

“He’s been very efficient moving the offense, done a nice job getting us in and out of the huddle, and distributing the ball to the right guy”, said offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains. Chicago will also likely be without their starting QB, NT and RB.

Let’s meet the enemy for this week.

Howard carried the ball 35 times for 238 yards-good for 6.8 yards per carry-while scoring a pair of touchdowns as IN took Jim Harbaugh’s team to double overtime before losing 48-41. The Bears have lost only twice to the Colts since they moved to Indianapolis, once in the Super Bowl and once in 2004. He’ll beat them 4-5 yards at a time and eventually pop a big one as the game goes on. Alshon Jeffery caught his first career touchdown in the contest as well.

Well, Cutler did not practice on Wednesday.

On the offense, Chicago is averaging 335.0 yards and 15.5 points per game. He talked about Cutler vs. Hoyer, Jordan Howard, Kevin White, the injuries, and the defense. Colts wideout T.Y. He led a high-powered Bears offense in 2013 that ranked second in yards. Last season he caught only 46.2 percent of his targets.

Thanks to the fine folks at Odds Sharks, the Colts are a 4.5-point favorite this weekend to raise their record to 2-3. He’s also hoping to end Indy’s 54-game streak without a 100-yard rusher. That is not good. The Colts are 11-9 as a franchise against Chicago in home games and 11-10 on the road. The revamped defense has yielded 31.3 points over the first four weeks.

“Pass rush is critical every week, not just this week. But we have to execute better, and whatever is called we have to run it better”. Luck said it was no big deal, but Colts coach Chuck Pagano said afterward he’d never seen him smile so much. Currently, they are tied for second place in their division. I’m saying he’s doing what needs to be done to give us a chance to compete and win games. Hoyer, who’d started 26 career games before joining the Bears on a one-year contract last offseason, may have gotten his Chicago shot because of injury but is now positioned to keep the job through performance. Those will be the key match ups there.

The stakes couldn’t be higher for the Colts (1-3).

What did you see from running back Jordan Howard against Detroit that makes you think he can sustain that success? Meanwhile Freeman was joining the Bears as a free agent following four years in the Canadian Football League. That is, as long as the Bears continue to play line they did against Detroit.

With Luck running the Colts’ offense and Freeman the man in the middle on defense, the team went to the playoff their first three seasons. This will be a huge boost to the defense, and the Colts have been doing a bad job of protecting Andrew Luck.

This, after going 2-5 in seven starts past year, when he was sacked 15 times and beaten into physical submission, injuring his ribs and shoulder and lacerating his kidney.