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Dan Wiederer: After an up-and-down performance, Bears QB Mitch Trubisky nails it: 'Close doesn't cut it'

On the final play of a wild Sunday afternoon, Mitch Trubisky launched a bomb into the October sky and hoped for the best. A cluster of bodies swirled around Soldier Field's south goal line. And from within that mob, Bears receiver Kevin White emerged with the football. Right near the end zone.

"From my vantage point," Trubisky said, "I thought he was in."

This was the tease that ended a 38-31 loss, the play that went down as the Bears' longest of the day and, in some respects, their most painful. White

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