NEWSLETTER
The Chicago Bears are becoming more unwatchable with each passing week. With that being said, I appreciate your patronage and your fandom. Being a Bears fan would suck more if we didn’t have a community like this one.
FINAL: Seattle Seahawks 6, Chicago Bears 3 (ESPN Box Score)
Thoughts on yet another Bears loss
- Caleb Williams is talented enough to make me think that this team will be more competitive on any given Sunday than it should be. He makes good things happen in moments when I am thoroughly convinced that nothing good can happen. QB1 is a silver lining in the dark cloud that hovers over Halas Hall.
.@CALEBcsw & @idjmoore convert on 4th down
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) December 27, 2024
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- Thomas Brown coached this game in a way that makes me think that he doesn’t even deserve a token interview for being put in an unenviable situation. Clock management was horrible. That 2-minute drive at the end of the game was one of the worst I’ve ever seen. The game management in the 58 minutes (or so) that led up to that was questionable, too. Maybe Brown needs to call plays from the coaches’ box to be successful. But if that is the case, then he isn’t going to move up the coaching ladder.
INSTANT BEARS PLAYER GRADES: Week 17 vs. Seattle Seahawks
- I am annoyed that we couldn’t even get a Scorigami out of that nonsense:
SEA 6 – 3 CHI Final No Scorigami. That score has happened 34 times before, most recently on October 23, 2011.
— Scorigami (@nflscorigami.bsky.social) December 26, 2024 at 10:05 PM
- Here is some good news: There are no more Thursday Night Football games left to be played. As far as I’m concerned, that I don’t have to hear Kirk Herbstreit broadcast an NFL game until next year is the best thing to come out of this game. Al Michaels has taken a ton of criticism this season. Some of it has been fair. But every week I tune in to watch TNF and leave it thinking I am dumber for having to listen to Herbstreit sound like a college football broadcaster who is calling NFL games against his will or simply doesn’t care about sounding under-informed when discussing the game and teams in front of his face.
Bears Week 17 highlights
The highlights were not plentiful for either team tonight.
- The best play of the night didn’t even count because Jake Curhan committed a holding penalty that negated a touchdown:
Caleb Williams throws a touchdown pass to Rome Odunze, but it doesn’t count as a holding penalty was called pic.twitter.com/HLGn2NVeHt— Arye Pulli (@AryePulliNFL) December 27, 2024
- Chicago’s other offensive highlight came on a broken play:
- I love how Kyler Gordon plays football and hope he is rewarded with a second contract that rewards him for his effort and pays him for what he projects to do in the future:
KYLER GORDON
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) December 27, 2024
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How did the three Bears perform?
Caleb Williams — Stats from QB1 after the Week 17 loss:
- 16 of 28 (57.1 pct.)
- 122 passing yards
- 0 touchdown, 1 interception
- 53.0 passer rating
This is how Caleb’s interception streak ended:
Riq said nope. pic.twitter.com/yQPMf8XEg9
— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) December 27, 2024
Now that it’s over, the people who were bemoaning the fact that it had gone on so long get to gripe about an awful game-ending pick. And because the Bears won’t play until Jan. 4 (at the earliest), there will be (at least) nine days of interception discourse. FUN! I hope you got coal in your stocking yesterday. And I hope you wake up tomorrow to see an overnight parking ban ticket on your car.
DJ Moore — WR1 finished with a team-leading six catches and 53 receiving yards. He also had an 11-yard rush on Thursday. One good thing about Thomas Brown’s takeover of the offense has been watching him get the ball to DJ Moore early and often. This should’ve been something Chicago’s offense was doing from the get-go.
Rome Odunze — The first-round rookie continues to look like a first-round rookie. Early in the game, Rome Odunze appeared to cut off his route on a Caleb Williams incompletion. Or maybe Williams just plain overthrew it. It appeared, when Amazon showed a replay, that Caleb was giving hand directions that insinuated that he thought that Rome would continue on his route. Instead, Rome settled. I hope those two work on routes every day between the start of the offseason and when it ends right before training camp.
WHAT’S NEXT: TBD at Green Bay Packers
The time and date for the Bears-Packers regular-season finale has yet to be announced by the NFL. What is the opposite of flexing into primetime? Let the league figure it out and that is where they should put Chicago’s football team to play out the string.
