The Chicago Bears price themselves at the least an opportunity at time beyond regulation on Sunday in opposition to the Detroit Lions with some abysmal clock administration.
The Bears have been trailing 23-20 within the fourth quarter of Sunday’s recreation at Ford Subject in Detroit, however gave the impression to be in excellent place to at the least power time beyond regulation. A move interference name in opposition to Lions defensive again Kindle Vildor set the Bears up on the Detroit 25-yard line with 46 seconds to go and two timeouts of their again pocket.
What adopted was one of the vital disastrous sequences any staff has put collectively all season. The Bears used their second timeout attributable to some confusion on the line following a primary down incompletion, however nonetheless had the ball on the Lions’ 25-yard line with 43 seconds on the clock and one timeout to go. On the following play, they fell sufferer to a self-inflicted error, as an unlawful fingers to the face penalty backed them up 10 yards.
On 2nd-and-20 from the Detroit 35, quarterback Caleb Williams took a sack, organising a Third-and-26 from the Lions’ 41. What adopted was pure chaos. The Bears have been woefully disorganized, and Williams didn’t get the staff to the road of scrimmage till there have been about ten seconds left. He waited a number of extra seconds for the snap, which lastly got here with six seconds left. Williams opted for a deep throw to Rome Odunze which fell incomplete after time expired, depriving the Bears of the possibility to even attempt for a game-tying kick. All of it occurred with the Bears nonetheless holding yet one more timeout of their again pocket.
