Sometimes you have to walk out of the dealership to get the price you want on the car. That's what happened after three quarters of the Bears losing against the spread, Alshon Jeffery doing nothing and a sequence where they cut to commercial to review the runback on Matt Forte's fumble, cut to commercial three plays later to review a Cole Beasley touchdown, wrongly upheld the call anyway, kicked the PAT, cut to another commercial, kicked off, commercial. At some point the asking price to watch a terrible game is too high. So I checked HBO which was showing the ad for the new Foo Fighter's album disguised as an homage to various artists, but HBO3 had "A Good Day to Die Hard." The scene I watched - where 60-year old Bruce Willis car-jacks a Mercedes SUV in Moscow and drives on top of moving cars - was bad, but it might as well have been "Citizen Kane" compared to the game.

It was only once I flipped back Jeffery (and also Martellus Bennett who had a short TD earlier) racked up the garbage-time points I needed. And after Jay Cutler ran in a touchdown to cut the lead to 10, suddenly the 3.5-point cover was also in play. My negotiating ploy had worked. I probably could have held out longer for the cover, but at least I got the dealer to meet me half way.

• Jay Cutler seems checked out to me. The Bears made a nice run in garbage time against a tired Dallas defense, but he looks like he's just slinging the ball around and hoping for the best.

• DeMarco Murray wasn't breaking big runs until late in the game, but the volume and catches are unreal.

• If Brandon Marshall misses any time, Alshon Jeffery is set up to be a monster down the stretch, given the terrible defense, Cutler's willingness to throw downfield and the Bears' inability to open holes for Matt Forte.

• Last year the Cowboys would neglect DeMarco Murray for long stretches. This year, they too often neglect Dez Bryant. And Jason Witten and Terrance Williams are now bit players.

• Mike Carey serves no purpose whatsoever. He's Captain Obvious, and the announcers should be able to explain the rules, the intricacies of which are neither especially complex nor interesting.