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Seahawks-Bears: Seattle keeps playoff hopes alive with 6-3 win over Chicago in one of NFL’s worst games of 2024 season

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Seahawks-Bears: Seattle keeps playoff hopes alive with 6-3 win over Chicago in one of NFL’s worst games of 2024 season

Geno Smith’s stat line — 17-for-23 for 160 yards — looked better than the Seahawks’ overall offensive production on Thursday night in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Caleb Williams and Geno Smith are in much different phases of their careers. The crossroads they and their teams will face this offseason reflect that too.

But anyone watching Thursday night’s game knows that neither team can be pleased with what they saw from their quarterback. The Seattle Seahawks beat the Chicago Bears 6-3 in an ugly, miserable game between two flawed teams. Each quarterback had a tough time and it left everyone to wonder what the future holds for them both. Only one of those teams has to decide if their quarterback will return, however.

There hadn’t been any points in the second half when the Bears finally put together a drive in the final minutes, trailing by three points. Williams made a couple of big-time plays to keep the drive alive, the first time Williams had produced much at all. But the drive stalled and with 20 seconds left the Bears passed on a 57-yard field-goal attempt to go for it on fourth-and-10. Williams threw an interception on a desperate pass, the appropriate ending to a horrendous night for both offenses.

For Smith, there will be more discussion over whether he’s the right player for the Seahawks (9-7), especially as he’s about to turn 35 next season, or if there’s a better option available. Thursday night’s performance won’t quiet his critics.

The Williams conversation will be more complicated. He was the No. 1 pick of this year’s NFL Draft; he’s in no danger of being replaced. But the Bears (4-12) have to figure out how to land a new coaching staff that will get more out of him than we saw his rookie season, and then get an idea of how much the team failed Williams this season, or how much Williams failed the team.

The offseason will be full of teams asking themselves serious questions about their current situation at quarterback and what they can do to fix it. The Bears and Seahawks have probably already started discussing it. If they haven’t, they should after what everyone watched Thursday.

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  • The Bears have lost their 10th straight game, while the Seahawks keep their playoff hopes alive by moving to 9-7. They will still need some help this weekend and next.

  • FINAL: Seahawks 6, Bears 3

    The Seahawks win the lowest-scoring game of the season by having an offense that at least resembled functionality at one point.

    Geno Smith: 17-of-23 for 160 yards, three sacks

    Caleb Williams: 16-of-28 for 122 yards, one interception, seven sacks

  • INTERCEPTION: Seahawks seal the game on a Caleb Williams arm punt

    Caleb Williams throws it up high after getting hit with more immediate pressure, but it’s a Seahawk who comes down with it this time. Riq Woolen gets the pick and that will do it for this game.

    That also breaks Williams’ interception streak, which was maybe last good thing to say aboutf a rookie season that has not gone according to plan.

  • Caleb Williams throws to no one on third down and it’s suddenly 4th-and-10 with 20 seconds left after a Seattle timeout. The Bears could be going for a 58-yard field goal to tie it, but it looks like they’re sending the offense back out.

  • What on earth? The Bears burn their final timeout after some confusion at the line of scrimmage, with 31 seconds left. Williams has saved them a couple times, but this drive has been a time management disaster for the Bears.

  • Once again, Caleb Williams pulls something out of his helmet. Again scrambling, he throws across his body and finds Rome Odunze for a first down on 3rd-and-14. We are now down to 40 seconds left.

  • The next play: Caleb Williams gets sacked for the seventh time tonight. We’ve thankfully reached the two-minute warning.

  • Wow, it was an adventure to get there, but Caleb Williams makes a great throw under pressure to D.J. Moore to get a massive first down. That was probably his best play of the game.

  • Wait, now the Bears burn their second timeout of the half to actually go for it on 4th-and-5.

  • And Bears right guard Jake Curhan gets called for a false start, making it 4th-and-5. So the Bears are punting with 2:14 remaining. What a trainwreck.

  • Caleb Williams gets stopped just short of a first down on a third-down scramble and the Bears appear to be going for it on 4th-and-inches. They call a timeout first, with 2:14 remaining. This is starting to look like their last real opportunity of the game.

  • The Seahawks got a nice play by DK Metcalf, but the drive still results in a punt. Bears ball, at their own 11, with 5:12 remaining.

  • The blitz gets to Caleb Williams for the Seahawks’ sixth sack of the night, adding to his NFL-leading total of 66. The Bears punt on 4th-and-16 and we have only 8:16 left in this contest.

  • The important part right now is making sure this game doesn’t go to overtime.

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