He was taunting the fans when the game started and the receivers were already 25 yards down the field on their route. It was filmed by people present at the match.

The Bears certainly managed to screw it up. No one was near Noah Brown when he caught the deflected pass out of the mosh pit in front of the goal line.

Kevin Byard was closest to him, but it’s not entirely clear that he was supposed to be the one covering for Brown.

It’s possible it’s Edmunds. Eberflus initially said whoever was with McLaurin around 10 a.m. could have been the one who was supposed to take the guy into the end zone, but he wouldn’t name who it was.

“I have to take a look,” Eberflus told reporters.

Edmunds being a 6-foot-5 guy with long arms makes sense to be out there, but not on the 10-yard line. This is where you let a guy catch it, then you tackle the receiver. Game over.

Edmunds in the pit where everyone was jumping made sense too. A 6-5 guy with long arms has a better chance of getting it or stopping someone bigger from tipping him than 5-11 DBs like Hicks, Jones, Blackwell and Byard. And a 6-5 guy with long arms makes more sense at guard because there’s no way Brown can catch him with someone that big guarding him.

And what about the pass rush on the play? They could have pulled out their bud grabbers and nipped everything in the bud before this geeky tragedy happened. They had three defensive linemen trying to pursue Jayden Houdini Daniels in slow motion and he got away. Some teams blitz the passer on the last play and you may simply forget to throw a Hail Mary.

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“No doubt,” Eberflus said. “I’ve seen people do that. You know, we have that, but you know, again, we chose to do the three-way race again. I think he had it for more than 12 seconds. “

As for using a linebacker to hover near the line with a running back?

“You know, TJ adds a little bit there too (to the run) because he has the running back,” Eberflus said.

But he wasn’t rushing and Daniels wasn’t going to throw it to the running back. If he had, the game would have ended at some point when he was tackled. So who cared about the running back? Additional database feedback to help would have been nice.

Even the preparation for the Hail Mary seemed dirty.

They all played receivers and deep and let Daniels complete a 13-yarder to McLaurin, and were far enough away from him that he went out of bounds after 13 yards. If they simply placed him inbounds, the Commanders would have no way to complete another play because there were two seconds remaining. They had no timeouts as they used it after the previous play on the Zach Ertz reception. They couldn’t have gotten to the line and put the ball on the ground before throwing it downfield. Line up the DB covering him along the sidelines and block him. Game over.

It was therefore enough to put the players on the sidelines to prevent them from stopping the clock.

“You’re defending a touchdown there and whether they throw a ball 13 or 10 yards, whatever, doesn’t really matter,” Eberflus said.

This is important because it puts them within range of throwing the Hail Mary on the next play, and it allows them to stop the clock to do so. If McLaurin caught it and headed downfield, when he was tackled, the play was over.

If they don’t get the completion, it’s incomplete for McLaurin, it’s a 65-yard Hail Mary. He doesn’t have that kind of arm unless someone rushes and lets him throw it. Nobody does it. They were alone 35 for the line of scrimmage, so his pass would have been about 68 yards away with six seconds left.

So what are the chances of winning with the ball at 35 and six seconds remaining?

All this nonsense masks the zero points they got for their drive to the 1-yard line earlier in the fourth quarter. That’s when Wile E., er, Waldron, their offensive coordinator, opted to become the super genius and hand it over to center-turned-fullback, Kramer.

Of course he fumbled. The odds of that happening were much greater than the Commanders winning with the ball with 35 seconds and six seconds remaining. In fact, they were probably almost tied.

“And I know there will be a lot of questions about Doug Kramer’s piece,” Eberflus said.

Yeah you think?

They’re playing with an offensive line so beat up in the game that they were going to caution Kramer after he was carried into the end zone because they didn’t have enough guards. Teven Jenkins was injured, Bill Murray was injured. Nate Davis was not in uniform.

So behind that line, they give the ball to their third center, who hasn’t really been a guard, and he’s going to be a guard, but then he’s a ball carrier now? Wait, what?

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

My head just exploded.

Thank you Wile E.

Thank you very much bears.

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