NFL ROUNDUP : Bear Defense Stops Browns, 13-0
James Coley scored on a 35-yard pass play and the Chicago Bear defense shut down the Cleveland Browns for a 13-0 victory in the Pro Football Hall of Fame exhibition game Saturday.
The Bears, coming off a 6-10 record last season that included a season-ending string of six losses, had 18 first downs while holding the Browns to 10 before a record-crowd of 23,952 at Canton, Ohio.
The Browns, 9-6-1 last season and 37-21 losers to Denver for the AFC title, did not move the ball past their 42 until the final minute.
After forcing a Cleveland punt on the game’s first possession, Chicago quarterback Jim Harbaugh completed two passes for 38 yards to set up a 31-yard field goal by Kevin Butler. Harbaugh completed six of eight passes for 97 yards, before leaving with a back bruise in the second quarter.
It stayed 3-0 until the third quarter, when a pass interference penalty and two completions by Tomczak for 19 yards moved the Bears to the Brown 35.
On first down, Tomczak completed a short pass to Coley, a 6-foot-3, 270-pound, second-year tight end from Clemson.
Denver 10, Seattle 7--Alton Montgomery and Michael Brooks set up scores with pass interceptions and Elliott Smith ended a threat with another interception as the Broncos beat the Seahawks before 48,827 at the Tokyo Dome.
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