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Asked about the sack he didn’t have, Bears defensive end Montez Sweat couldn’t help but chuckle in his deep, baritone laugh.

“That’s the difference between being good and great,” Sweat said.

On the play, early in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s win over Pittsburgh, Sweat sidestepped an attempted block from the running back — who frankly was no match one-on-one for the 6-foot-6, 270-pound Sweat — and zeroed in on Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph. Sweat placed two hands across Rudolph’s hips and looked like he had a sure sack, what would've been his third of the game. Sweat spun to the ground and somehow Rudolph twisted out of his grasp and lofted an incompletion out of bounds.

“It would have been my first hat trick,” Sweat said. “Maybe we can try again next game.”

Sunday marked his sixth game with two or more sacks in his seven-year NFL career, and his first since he had a career-high 2 1/2 sacks against the Browns in 2023, not long after the Bears traded to acquire him. Sweat now has 7 1/2 sacks on the season, including 6 1/2 of those over the last six games.

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