Stewart displayed his most balanced attack of the season vs. Brooks.

Stewart Saves Best Last
Steve Stewart may have saved his best game for when it counted most, the AFC title game vs. Brooks and the Vikings. Stewart unveiled a masterful game plan that features a delicate mixture of excellent outside running, mixed with possession passing plays, with a sprinkling of the deep chuck! Stewart's potent offense gave Vikings defense fits, early causing the normally stoic Brooks to show uncharacteristic signs of unraveling early. Brooks frustrations were a combination of faulty controller problems to having defenders in position to make plays, only to have the offense come up big.

Stewartd the scoring up scoring in three plays on his first drive. After missing the two point conversion, the Bears were only up 6-0 before Brooks went for a uncharacteristic 4th down from his own 20. "I knew I could convert it," Brooks stated after the game. "It was a simple slant pattern, I could run it anytime I wanted when he pressed me in man." He did convert it, but it just seemed to be a part of Brooks game, we are not used to. However, the drive stalled, and the Bears on the next possession scored to go up 14-0.

Brooks finally got on the board to make it 14-7, and the two teams went to the locker room 21-14.

Stewart immediately went to work on Brooks run defense, mixing his runs and short passes to James Allen out of the backfield. The Bears scored and went up 28-14. Brooks came right back and made it a 28-21 game early in the 4th quarter. After a Kailee Wong interception, Brooks tied the score at 28-28.

Stewart then called on his TNT combination of the David Terrell and Marcus Robinson. The two of them combined for over 300 reception yards. Stewart went up 36-28 with less than 5 mins to play.

On Brooks next drive, he was somewhat methodical, driving the ball down field for the tying score. But the drive stalled, and the Bears took over with less than 3 mins to play. Inside the two minute warning, controversy arose when Stewart, facing a 4th and 20 from the Vikings 31, launched a deep bomb that was headed for Marcus Robinson, who had a couple of steps on a Viking defender, when Ryan Collins, inadvertently knocked the power cord out of the wall, causing the game to shut down, while the ball was still in the air.

After the pandemonium died down, the game was reset using the situational set up, and the game resumed. However, Stewart's pass fell incomplete, giving Brooks the ball on his own 31.

The Vikes drove 69 yards scoring with 15 secs. remaining on a corner route to Randy Moss. The Vikes trailed by two 36-34, needing to convert to tie the game. Stewart came out in a 3-4. Brooks seemed as though he was setting a dive play, audibled, when Stewart clogged the DE-NT gaps with his linebackers. Brooks audible to a pass play and was sacked, thus failing the conversion. The Bears held on to win 36-34.

Stewart will advance to face Ryan Collins in PFL Superbowl VI.