Caleb Williams

You're thinking about all those different decisions and what could have happened as you feel the NFC Championship game slip away.

it's hard not to go back to the beginning of the game, right?

And understand when you get to a situation where it's that tight, that late, you are in clutch territory.

And yes, Caleb Williams has been magical because on a play where it looks like he should not be able to complete the pass, he has completed passes multiple times.

But you go back to the early.

Start with the bootleg.

hitting DJ Moore.

And we're off and running.

Beautiful.

At that point, you're like, okay, this game isn't starting like so many games have started for the Bears.

And they get down into the red zone.

They face a fourth down.

They decide not to kick.

They go for it.

But even before that, when they had Rome Adunze in the end zone.

That's the thing.

You get to the end of the game, and you start looking back at the entirety of the game once the game ends.

And I think Ben Johnson is...

If he had known that Dennis Allen's defense was going to play like that for 60-plus minutes, maybe some of those decisions would have been a little bit different at the beginning of the game.

Who would have thunk it, man?