TAMPA, Fla. — Pit the two questions against each other and you’d have a contest far more competitive than Sunday’s 27-17 Buccaneers win against a spiraling Bears team. What was more damning: that the Bears called a middle screen from their own end zone with 2:11 to play and down by three Sunday? Or that the Buccaneers were looking for it?
With the ball at the Bears’ 6, quarterback Justin Fields took a shotgun snap at the goal line and shuffled backward. With his back foot on the descending “A” in the Buccaneers’ logo, he looked toward running back Khalil Herbert, who had floated behind center Lucas Patrick and just outside the right hashmark at the 5.
