Add another highlight to Matt Eberflus’ growing resume of disasters.
The Bears let nearly half a minute tick off after Caleb Williams was sacked with 33 seconds left in the game and a time out in their pocket in what would be a 23-20 loss to the Lions.
By the time Williams hiked the ball with around five seconds left at the Lions’ 41-yard-line, a long incomplete pass would be the final play of the game.
In the CBS booth, Jim Nantz and Tony Romo chided Chicago for their lack of urgency in what was an impressive comeback from a 16-0 halftime deficit to the now 11-1 Lions.
“They better hurry, oh no, this is a disaster in the making here,” Nantz said in agony on the CBS broadcast. “You’re going to have to do something with it, it comes down to this play. Incomplete. And the game is over. Completely botched at the end by the Bears.”
“I can’t believe they didn’t take a timeout,” Romo added.
Williams rallied the Bears with three second-half touchdowns and had driven them into field goal range to possibly tie the game on a drive that started at their own 1.
Meanwhile, Lions quarterback Jared Goff struggled in the game’s final two quarters, putting up just seven points after the Detroit offense was in total control in the first half.
Goff finished the game with 221 yards and two touchdown passes; both to tight end Matt LaPorta.
The Bears fired offensive coordinator Shane Waldron three weeks ago, which has led to improvements behind interim OC Thomas Brown but not any wins.
Their offense still needs to work while Williams, the No. 1 pick in the draft, is under siege behind a bad struggling line.
Williams has been sacked an NFL-worst 54 times.
Eberflus has been under fire for Chicago as the team has lost six straight games with one coming on a Hail Mary and another on a blocked field goal.