Oh, these poor Chicago Bears. Caleb Williams’ last-minute interception ended his probably historic streak, and the endgame left Bears followers in shambles. Topping off the insanity, Thomas Brown claimed “no confusion” after the worst clock administration you’ll ever see towards the Seahawks.
Brown received his interim place due to Matt Eberflus’ epic clock meltdown, which led on to his firing. This time, Brown couldn’t determine when to name timeout, ultimately hurting his group’s probabilities of making an attempt a game-tying area objective within the final seconds of a brutally terrible 6-3 loss.
That ultimate rating made it solely the second NFL sport this season with out a landing.
Bears HC Thomas Brown goes wonky
Chicago took possession with 5:12 left within the fourth quarter. The Bears stalled for a fourth-and-inches from its personal 39-yard line and a pair of:14 remaining. A false begin modified the narrative and Brown known as the punt group onto the sector.
Earlier than the punt try occurred, Brown used his group’s first timeout to ship the offense again onto the sector. The backtracks laid exhausting and heavy as Brown tried to elucidate the foolish scenario, in line with espn.com.
“It wasn’t confusion in any respect,” Brown mentioned. “I simply modified my thoughts.”
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Yep. You don’t get a free cross on that within the NFL. Coaches are paid handsomely to make fast and agency choices. They don’t toss away timeouts trailing within the fourth quarter.
Brown continued, “I feel with the ability to use (punter) Tory (Taylor) as a weapon, and we nonetheless had, I feel it was, 2:16 on the clock, nonetheless had our three timeouts, plus the two-minute warning. The way in which our protection had been enjoying all day, presumably have an opportunity to go flip the sector. And drive the three-and-out. Get a shorter area and have, like, a final end-of-the-game drive. That was my thought course of.
“Over the course of that, I modified my thoughts and mentioned, ‘Let’s go for it now.’ And despatched the offense again on the grass.”
Oddly sufficient it nearly labored. Caleb Williams hit D.J. Moore for a 6-yard acquire. And the Bears ultimately drove into Seahawks territory. However extra insanity ensued. Williams mentioned he was hit within the throat on a cross to Rome Odunze. Earlier than Chicago ran its subsequent play on first down, 38 seconds ticked off the clock.
“I do not know if the coaches noticed me down there after the large completion to Rome,” Williams mentioned. “Regardless that I received hit within the throat and the face, received to only rise up and go run down and snap the ball.”
Only a mess. One other high-quality Bears mess.