Chicago Bears take another excruciating loss after they fail to use remaining timeout
The Chicago Bears’ season of suffering continued Thursday, as they lost to the Detroit Lions in yet another close game.
The Chicago Bears’ season of suffering continued Thursday, as they lost to the Detroit Lions in yet another close game.
Trailing 23-20 and driving into Lions territory with less than a minute to play in regulation, Bears quarterback Caleb Williams took a sack on second down after failing to locate a receiver.
That left Chicago with a third and long with about 33 seconds left on the clock from the Lions’ 41-yard line. The Bears had a timeout, but in a move that the game’s announcers questioned as it was happening, they did not use it.
Instead, Chicago tried to go no-huddle and run another play, presumably to make a would-be game-tying field goal slightly more manageable for their kicker. But the offense was slow in returning to the line of scrimmage and snapping the ball, causing the clock to expire on the following play, when Williams overthrew his intended receiver in the end zone.
In his postgame news conference, Bears head coach Matt Eberflus — already on the hot seat after a string of game mismanagement decisions — acknowledged that he had hoped to run one more play and then call timeout.
Rating: 5