If you look at the final 20-12 score of the Bears’ game with the Giants (+3), you’d think it was a closely-contested and heated affair between two surprising NFC teams. Look through their general offensive box score — 155 yards passing, six sacks, zero touchdowns on three red zone trips, three fumbles lost — and you see that Justin Fields and Co. actually “enjoyed” a bleak afternoon on the road.
That’s what made the Bears’ final desperate schoolyard toss around the field to try and win the game all too fitting. Like their overall effort on the day, the hook-and-ladder attempt showed hints of promise when it shuffled through the hands of Fields and offensive linemen like Teven Jenkins.
And by the end of all the flailing and lateral movement (over roughly 30 strange seconds), they ultimately moved the ball up the field very little:
Bears funny final play in its entirety. pic.twitter.com/qpXWfgtlgc
— Main Team (@MainTeamSports2) October 2, 2022
Incredible! Look at the dots of this wild one, too:
the still image for the final play in the Bears game qualifies as @NextGenStats AI art pic.twitter.com/WJdrhnoHXZ
— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) October 2, 2022
Truly, what art.
Only the Bears could turn a 30-second play that seemingly touched the hands of every player on offense into absolutely nothing up field. At least it’s nothing out of character for a team that struggles to score 20 points and eclipse 300 yards of offense every Sunday.