In the end, the Bears got what they deserved

The Bears pulled out all of the stupid in a mind-numbing loss to the Commanders

How long did the final play of the Bears 18-15 loss to Washington take? Twenty minutes? An hour? For however long that was, we were happy. The Bears had spent the previous three hours doing just about as many dumb things as you can pack into one football game, and somehow, despite all of it, they were going to win a game that they had no reason to actually win.

And then, Jayden Daniels’ 52-yard Hail Mary bounced off of a wall of Bears and Commanders right in front of the goal line and then right into the hands of Washington receiver Noah Brown for the game winning score. While a lot of people were shocked by it, the person who was most shocked was probably Brown, that he actually caught something for once.

For the Bears, it was a tough way to lose a football game. They apparently used up all of their Hail Mary luck in 2001 when they used them to win back to back games in 2001 against the 49ers and Browns. Since? It’s mostly Chris Conte knocking the ball to the other team, Kevin White actually catching it and then not scoring and whatever that thing was with Darnell Mooney last year when he somehow kicked the ball back over his own head.

Of all units, the Bears defense didn’t deserve to go down that way. They played their asses off, short handed in the secondary and constantly returning to the field to bail out an offense that had returned to its more familiar sad sack ways.

Or, maybe you’ll watch this video of Tyrique Stevenson waving to the Commanders crowd even after the play had started, only to run in late and then knock the ball into the air and right to Brown.

In fact, you can see by the way all of the other DBs played it, that Tyrique was supposed to pick up Brown and stick to him, so that he wouldn’t have been standing by himself in end zone to catch the pass.

Oh boy. See what I meant by pulling out all of the stupid.