That was tough. There's no way to sugarcoat it. That loss was one of the more difficult to stomach, especially considering the Chicago Bears' hatred for their most bitter rival.
In a Week 14 matchup with the Green Bay Packers, the Bears stormed back from a lousy first half to make this one competitive. After tying the game at 21 apiece, Chicago saw the Packers respond with a touchdown drive of their own. And then, it was time for Cardiac Caleb Williams.
Leading the Bears all the way down into the red zone, Williams ultimately saw his final pass of the game intercepted by Packers cornerback Keisean Nixon. On a throw intended for tight end Cole Kmet, Williams underthrew it, and thus, the game was over.
“We got multiple options on that play. Caleb felt like Cole was open and we didn’t hit it," head coach Ben Johnson said of the play after the game.
Ben Johnson hints to what Bears fans noticed watching Caleb Williams' final throw vs. Packers
One of the immediate debates following this game concerned where else Williams could have thrown the football on that final play. By re-watching the play, fans started to see the potential for Williams to have hit wide receiver DJ Moore instead of Kmet.
A still-frame of the moment when Williams was letting go of the football showed that, had he waited a millisecond longer and instead gotten the ball to Moore, the veteran wideout likely would've walked in for a score.
Taking a look at the referenced screenshot, you'd see Moore didn't have anyone in front of him to beat. Nixon running in the opposite direction and being unable to turn around quick enough should solidify this point.
It makes the result that much more difficult to stomach if you're a Bears fan. Forget the idea that Williams could have and should have led Kmet toward the corner of the end zone. Yes, he certainly could have.
But, possibly a safer bet would have been to flip the ball to Moore and allow him to waltz in for a score.
Forget the idea of a touchdown, too, by the way. This was a fourth-and-one, and the Bears had timeouts remaining. There was no need to score a touchdown on that play; just getting the first down would have sufficed.
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Hindsight is always 20-20. It's much easier to look back and nitpick than it is to move forward, sometimes. But Johnson's comments definitely don't make it any easier.