Risky transaction; Ben Johnson trade out 3 key star players. Of the bears worth $107 mi……….more

Risky transaction; Ben Johnson trade out 3 key star players. Of the bears worth $107 mi……….more

 

 

Famously, the Hail Mary was caught by Noah Brown, the receiver Tyrique Stevenson was supposed to be covering. The cornerback began the play with his back turned to the snap because he was too busy waving at fans and later jumped for the pass instead of staying on the ground.

 

Eberflus said after the game that the sideline completions by the Commanders didn’t matter, even though an incompletion on the penultimate pass would’ve made it impossible for Daniels to throw into the end zone.

 

“How [Eberflus] handled it at that time, for that game, was, I think, one of the things that throughout the locker room people talked about and were annoyed by,” Williams told the magazThe Bears fired Eberflus the next month after another late-game gaffe in Detroit. The players were annoyed then, too. Cornerback Jaylon Johnson barked at the coaching staff after Eberflus refused to take a timeout as the clock expired.

 

Williams appeared on the cover of the “Mavericks of Sports” edition of the magazine wearing a pink-and-maroon rugby shirt and plaid overcoat. His comments to Esquire were the first time he has talked publicly about the players’ annoyance with Eberflus, though he said at Halas Hall three days after the Hail Mary loss that “right in that moment, you’re angry . . . you’re furious that you lost and you lost in that waThe Bears lost 10 games in a row during Williams’ rookie year — under Eberflus and interim coach Thomas Brown — before winning the season finale at Lambeau Field.

 

Williams told Esquire he was “so beat up mentally, physically [and] spiritually” by the late-season losses.

 

“When I got home, I got in my bed, I just dropped a few tears,” he said.y.ine.