Lions' Jim Schwartz upset his player takes shot after onside kick

Dave Birkett | USA TODAY Sports

DETROIT — Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz was upset about what he deemed a missed call at the end of his team's 40-32 win over the Chicago Bears at Ford Field on Sunday.

Kris Durham recovered an onside kick with 42 seconds to play after the Bears scored a late touchdown and two-point conversion to cut the Lions' lead to eight points.

The play sealed the victory for the Lions, but as Durham lay on the ground covering the ball he took a shot from Bears linebacker Jon Bostic.

"We talk a lot about player safety and things like that and he's laying prone on the ground, is giving himself up and takes a helmet right to the back and we don't any call there," Schwartz said. "It's a little hypocritical to talk about player safety when we allow that to not get called. But Kris toughed it out and he had to hold onto that ball and he did. And he did a nice job today."

Durham finished with three catches for a team-high 58 yards and recovered a second onside kick earlier in the fourth quarter, after another Chicago touchdown and two-point conversion.

Schwartz also sounded off about a lack of holding penalties in the game.

Bears right tackle Jordan Mills drew the game's only holding penalty with about seven minutes to play in the fourth quarter.

"Our pass rush was doing a good job," Schwartz said. "I can't believe we didn't get about a hundred holding penalties against them today."

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Birkett also writes for the Detroit Free Press, a Gannett property