Case Keenum’s Bears beat the Eagles 27-7 on Monday Night Football, and somehow that sentence is still funnier than whatever Nick Sirianni screamed into a hot mic on the sideline. A 38-year-old journeyman who hadn’t started an NFL game since 2023 picked apart the reigning Super Bowl champs, and the funniest part is nobody in Philadelphia can even blame the schedule-makers for this one.
The Case Keenum Eagles 27-7 final will get funnier with distance, not less.
Keenum went 24-of-34 for 247 yards and two touchdowns, added a rushing score on a quarterback sneak, and finished with a 110.8 rating. Eight yards to Luther Burden, forty-one to Kalif Raymond, both through the air. That’s Keenum’s whole Monday: efficient, unbothered, and somehow still funny.
His first start since 2023 ended with 247 yards and three touchdowns, which is the kind of stat line that gets a guy released in July and canonized in September.
This was Keenum’s 67th career start, and until Sunday he was Chicago’s third-string quarterback, active only because Caleb Williams was out with a hamstring injury. He hadn’t started a regular-season game since 2023, a gap of 1,009 days, and he still made the Eagles’ defense look like it forgot how football works. Keenum now joins Ryan Fitzpatrick as the only two quarterbacks in NFL history to win a start for seven different franchises, which is either the most Case Keenum stat ever recorded or proof that vibes are undefeated.
None of this happens without something breaking on the other side, and it broke early. The Jalen Hurts injury scare in the Bears game came in the second quarter, when linebacker D’Marco Jackson caught him stepping out of bounds and a concussion spotter pulled Hurts for a look in the medical tent.
Hurts went to the medical tent and Sirianni lost it on the sideline, and together those two moments did more damage to Philly’s air of invincibility than the scoreboard did.
He came back, finished 16-of-25 for 153 yards with an interception, and said afterward he felt “in the right place to go out there and compete,” though he admitted he wished the evaluation could’ve been “expedited.” That’s a polite way of saying he wanted back on the field before Chicago turned a manageable deficit into a laugher, and somewhere in New England, the star receiver they shipped out back in June was probably fine with missing this one.
The real main character of the broadcast, though, was Nick Sirianni, whose sideline reaction to the hit on Hurts turned into an instant meme — lip readers had him aimed square at D’Marco Jackson. Even the Bears’ own account couldn’t resist piling on:
https://twitter.com/ChicagoBears/status/2104783617197064442
Sirianni copped to it after the game: “I let my emotions get the best of me,” he said, while insisting he’ll always go to bat for his guys.
A title defense does not usually come with its head coach mouthing off at a linebacker on national television while his franchise quarterback sits in a medical tent.
Total yards: Bears 375, Eagles 248. Time of possession ran 36:53 in Chicago’s favor, and Philadelphia strung together three straight three-and-outs in the second half while the Eagles’ defense that looked fixed two weeks ago got shredded by a guy who’d been Chicago’s emergency third option a week earlier.
None of this means the Bears win the NFC next month, or that Philly can’t fix it — both teams sit at 2-1, and one bad Monday against a hot backup isn’t a full referendum. But this was still Case Keenum’s Bears beating the Eagles by 20, with the head coach losing it and the franchise quarterback in a tent, and teams that are actually fine don’t have games like that.
I’ve hated this team since I could talk, and even I didn’t have “loses to a 38-year-old third-string emergency starter who’d been gone since 2023” on my preseason bingo card. Go ahead and pencil in next year’s parade route, Philly. Bring an eraser.
