The Chicago Bears had driven into Detroit Lions territory from inside their one-yard line.
A drive was saved by a defensive pass interference penalty after an offensive pass interference penalty set the Bears back.
They had a timeout left and faced a third-and-26 with time running down.
Somehow, the team that finds ways to lose discovers another way to lose at the end of the game. Improbable but Caleb Williams or the sideline didn’t call timeout as the clock ran down.
Instead, Williams threw a long pass that went incomplete and by the time it landed the clock read 0:00.
A wild end to this one. #CHIvsDET pic.twitter.com/zwR7g1Efv9
— NFL (@NFL) November 28, 2024
The Detroit Lions had a 23-20 victory despite allowing all of Chicago’s points in the second half.
The Lions are 11-1 and the Bears are 4-8 in a season that has gone awry.
The only possible line of thinking from Bears coach Matt Eberflus on the sidelines is he was prerserving the timeout in case a pass was completed on the field of play.
That would have allowed the Bears to send Cairo Santos on the field for a possible game-tying field-goal attempt.
However, when your rookie quarterback has lost control of the scene and clock you have to call the timeout and tell him to either complete a pass on the sidelines so it can go out of bounds or throw it away.
Instead, Eberflus let his Bears throw away another game.
A wild end to this one. #CHIvsDET pic.twitter.com/zwR7g1Efv9
— NFL (@NFL) November 28, 2024
