Hope this isn’t true?… TERRIBLE NEWS: Few Minutes ago Chicago Bears Head Coach Thomas Brown Decide to……read more

Hope this isn’t true?… TERRIBLE NEWS: Few Minutes ago Chicago Bears Head Coach Thomas Brown Decide to……read more  

Chicago overcooked the turkey on Thanksgiving Day, adding another late-game mishap to a season chock full of disappointment.

Thursday’s 23-20 loss to the Detroit Lions featured no miracle on the final play, however, rather a mismanagement of time with the game well within reach.

The Bears drove into Lions territory late in the fourth quarter down three points and seemingly in position to at least send the game into overtime, but calamity struck after Caleb Williams was sacked for a 6-yard loss on second-and-20 from the 35-yard line.

With a little over 30 seconds left on a ticking game clock, the Bears didn’t use their final timeout and instead rushed to the line for their next play.

The only problem was that play was snapped with about six seconds left, and Williams’ incompletion downfield hit the ground just as the game clock expired, concluding a frantic sequence that brought plenty of questions for Bears head coach Matt Eberflus postgame.

Our hope was, because it was third [down] going into fourth, that we would re-rack that play at 18 seconds, throw it inbounds, get into field goal range and then call the timeout,” the Bears head coach said.

“That’s where it was and that was our decision-making process on that.

Again, we were outside the field goal range, so we needed to get a few more yards in there, as close as we can get, and then we were going to call a timeout, and that’s why we held that last timeout.