The Chicago Bears will host the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 6. Here’s how to watch the game online.
To help kickoff the NFL Week 6 Sunday slate, the Chicago Bears will play host to the Jacksonville Jaguars. At 1-4, the Bears have not had an ideal start to the season, but the same could certainly be said for the 1-3 Jaguars.
Coming off of an offseason where they made many key additions to their roster, the Jaguars entered 2016 with more expectations than they have had in a long time. Unfortunately, they have yet to be able to put it all together.
The Jaguars offense has a lot of upside, but the up-and-down play of quarterback Blake Bortles continues to hold them back. Bortles is simply not a very good NFL quarterback.
He puts up good numbers, but a huge majority of his success comes late in the game with the Jaguars out of reach. Bortles is a garbage time quarterback, if you will.
That being said, the Jaguars certainly have the talent to compete with the Bears. Allen Robinson is a big time threat on the outside, and their defensive unit is young and talented.
On the Chicago side, much of the intrigue is in their backfield. Quarterback Brian Hoyer has played well in the absence of Jay Cutler and rookie running back Jordan Howard has been great in relief of injured starter Jeremy Langford.
The combination of Hoyer and Howard has been much more successful for Chicago than Cutler and Langford, but is this just a case of small sample size? For Hoyer, it probably is. He is just a journeyman veteran who has shown flashes in the past. However, Hoyer is never going to lead a successful NFL team as their full time starting quarterback.
Hoyer appears to be a better option for Chicago than Cutler, but that is not really saying much.
Howard could be for real. He is a quick and powerful runner who is showing some nice explosiveness with the ball in his hands. He is clearly a better option at running back than Langford, and could be a guy for the Bears to build their offense around.
It will be interesting to see if Hoyer and Howard can keep up their strong play against Jacksonville this week.
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This game between rebuilding teams can be watched live on CBS, but you can also catch every snap live via an online stream with a DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket subscription.
TV: CBS
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET
Online: NFL Sunday Ticket MAX (subscription required)
Mobile: Verizon NFL Mobile (subscription required)
We are not looking at Super Bowl contenders here. However, both the Bears and Jaguars have interesting players on both sides of the ball. This game may be more exciting than you would expect.