Bears’ Brown refutes late-game complication in loss to Seahawks

CHICAGO– One month after clock-management troubles versus the Detroit Lions brought about the shooting of train Matt Eberflus, the Chicago Bears secured their 10th straight loss when timeout problems and no effort at a possible connecting basket caused a 6-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

Thursday’s Seahawks-Bears competition was just one of 2 NFL video games this period without a goal. Chicago completed 179 backyards of crime, its fourth-lowest result in 2024, and took care of just a basket in its last home video game of the period.

Similar to just how the Bears’ loss to the Lions played out on Thanksgiving Day, Chicago tracked by 3 entering its last drive. The Bears occupied with 5 mins, 12 secs continuing to be in the 4th quarter at their 11-yard line with all 3 timeouts.

Chicago ran 6 plays prior to dealing with fourth-and-inches from its 39-yard line when left guard Jake Curhan, that began instead of hurt Teven Jenkins (calf bone), was flagged for an incorrect begin.

The Bears remained in punting development when acting head train Thomas Brown used his group’s initial timeout with 2:14 left. A scenario that seemed the outcome of complication on the sideline was a result of Brown choosing to be a lot more hostile.

“It wasn’t confusion at all,” Brown claimed. “I just changed my mind. I think being able to use [punter] Tory [Taylor] as a weapon, and we still had I think it was 2:16 on the clock, still had our three timeouts, plus the two-minute warning. The way our defense had been playing all day, possibly have a chance to go flip the field and force the three-and-out, get a shorter field and have, like, a last end-of-the-game drive. That was my thought process.

“Over the training course of that, I transformed my mind and claimed, ‘Let’s go all out currently,’ and sent out the crime back on the yard.”

Quarterback Caleb Williams connected with receiver DJ Moore on the subsequent fourth-and-5 play for a 14-yard gain. The Bears ran one play after the two-minute warning and allowed 45 seconds to come off the clock before rookie Rome Odunze gained 15 yards on third-and-14 to get the Bears into Seattle territory.

But Chicago would not advance the ball past the Seahawks’ 40-yard line, and another one-score loss would end in similar confounding fashion.

Williams said he was hit in the throat by Seattle’s pass rush after launching a deep ball to Odunze. Between the time that play began to when Chicago ran its next play on first down, an additional 38 seconds came off the clock.

” I do not recognize if the instructors saw me down there after the huge conclusion to Rome,” Williams said. “Even though I obtained struck in the throat and the face, reached simply obtain up and go diminish and break the sphere.”

The Bears ended up using their second timeout on second-and-10 from the Seattle 40-yard line, and a frustrated Williams was seen yelling toward the sideline.

Just like in Detroit, the Bears needed a field goal to tie the score, and they crossed the 50-yard line with 1:05 left. After wasting 83 seconds of game time, Chicago failed to attempt a field goal.

Brown confirmed that kicker Cairo Santos’ kick line was between the 34- and 37-yard line.

After getting to the Seattle 40-yard line, the Bears threw four straight passes, the last of which resulted in Williams launching his first interception after throwing 353 passes without a turnover (fourth most in NFL history).

” I assume certainly there’s times where you can have a much better telephone call, desire a much better telephone call, points like that, yet we really did not implement,” Williams said. ” I really did not implement on various celebrations this video game, and it’s aggravating. But reached locate a means.”

After the game, several Bears players described a chaotic feeling on the sideline as Chicago used two of its three timeouts in situations that didn’t allow the offense to move the ball closer to field goal range.

“There were some creases therein,” Moore said. “The one-time that it copulated down and we truly didn’t recognize what to do. But at the end of the day, shoot, that gets on us. We’ve reached remain ready throughout the entire video game and I suggest, that’s all I can state.”