Bears defeat Raiders with late Robbie Gould field goal, 22-20

CHICAGO _ A supposedly hobbled quarterback wasn’t enough of an advantage for the Raiders.tmpplchld Jay Cutler played through a hamstring injury that sidelined him a week ago and he was healthy enough to guide the Chicago Bears to a 22-20 win over the Raiders on Sunday at Soldier Field.tmpplchld Robbie Gould booted a 49-yard field goal on the next to last play of the game to send the Raiders (2-2) to a crushing defeat and snap their two-game winning streak. A series of laterals on the ensuing kickoff wasn’t enough to find the end zone and Oakland was flagged for an illegal forward pass anyway.tmpplchld “Real hard-fought back and forth game. Give them credit, they made the play at the end to win,” Raiders coach Jack Del Rio said.tmpplchld The Raiders were looking for their first three-game winning streak since 2011, which was also the last time they won two straight road games. A win could’ve given them their best start to a season since opening 4-0 in 2002 and added more spice to next week’s visit from the AFC West rival Denver Broncos, the first place team in the division.tmpplchld The overarching reaction from the Raiders, however, was to brush this one off, come home and get back to work.tmpplchld “It’s a loss,” wide receiver Michael Crabtree said. “It’s early. We’ve got 16 games. What’s all the fuss about? We’ve just got to go out there and win. Next week’s a divisional game. We’ve got to go out there and do what we’ve got to do.”tmpplchld The Raiders got critical defensive plays when they needed them the past two weeks, with Charles Woodson’s intercepting Cleveland’s Josh McCown late in last week’s win and Neiko Thorpe doing the same to Baltimore’s Joe Flacco two weeks ago.tmpplchld It looked like that trend might continue. Chicago (1-3) had a 19-17 lead when Raiders’ running back Latavius Murray fumbled a perfectly placed pitch _ the second turnover he was involved in this game _ and the Bears took over at the Raiders’ 42.tmpplchld Chicago faced a third-and-1 from the 23-yard line and tried to go deep to tight end Martellus Bennett, who had 11 catches for 83 yards and a touchdown. Woodson, three days shy of his 39th birthday, undercut the route and stepped in to make an interception.tmpplchld The Raiders should have taken over at the 18-yard line, but were backed up to the 9 when the sideline was flagged for running onto the field and interfering with an official.tmpplchld That didn’t make a major difference after Derek Carr hit Crabtree, who had earlier left the game with an ankle injury, for a 25-yard pickup. Crabtree caught another 13-yard pass and Roy Helu Jr., who replaced Murray after his fumble, ran for 12 yards.tmpplchld Mychal Rivera caught a pass for 8 yards to get within Sebastian Janikowski’s field goal range, although four minutes still remained.tmpplchld The Raiders kept it on the ground four straight times with Helu. The initial run picked up a first down, then he gained eight on the next two runs. The third down was crucial as another first down could’ve churned down the clock, but Helu was stuffed for a 1-yard loss.tmpplchld “We felt like we were moving it pretty good and thought we had a better shot to move the sticks on that third-and-two,” Del Rio said. “We came up a little short there.”tmpplchld Janikowski’s 41-yard field was good with 2:05 remaining, but the Bears still had two timeouts plus the two-minute warning.tmpplchld The Raiders defense started out strong. Khalil Mack sacked Cutler on second down and Cutler threw incomplete on third down. But he found Bennett for a 7-yard pickup on fourth-and-5 and continued moving down the field with a series of short passes.tmpplchld With the wind at their backs, Chicago had no problem settling for a 49-yard field that Gould nailed.tmpplchld “We had an opportunity to end it on defense and that’s where you want to be,” said defensive end Justin Tuck, who had his first sack of the season. “But they made a few more plays than we did in the end. You give them credit. That was a football team that obviously needed a win, was at home, and we just didn’t play well enough to get one on the road today.”tmpplchld As for Cutler, who had been questionable and wasn’t certain to play until a couple hours before kickoff, his hamstring didn’t seem to bother him a bit.tmpplchld “I thought we were going to get the Cutler of old,” Tuck said. “He had two weeks to come back from that. He was pretty much the Cutler that was 100 percent, it looked like to me.”tmpplchld Cutler threw for 281 yards and two touchdowns and the Bears outgained Oakland 371-243. It was the Raiders’ lowest yardage output of the season, eclipsing the 246 they gained in the season-opening loss to Cincinnati.tmpplchld The Bears started the day 8-for-11 on third downs and finished the afternoon going 10 of 17.tmpplchld “Not getting off the field on third down and turnovers,” Woodson said, “it’s hard to win games like that.”tmpplchld ___tmpplchld (c)2015 The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.)tmpplchld Visit The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.) at www.insidebayarea.comtmpplchld Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.tmpplchld