Caleb Williams

But even then, I'm thinking back to myself about what led up to that.

Because, you know, DJ helped get them on the board.

And he's caught some of the most important balls in the end zone that this Bears team can ask for.

And that's the other part of this.

You start going through all the individual performances in this game that then added to this.

But once again, we said this before.

You are going to have to ask your quarterback to put a game on his shoulders and win in the NFL playoffs.

And we saw the Bears quarterback, the Bears quarterback, do everything he possibly could and successfully on so many plays, enough to win this ballgame.

And it's just a shame that we're not talking about the standard being raised yet again and the NFC Championship being a discussion today.

We saw a fourth and two early intercepted.

We saw the third and one and fourth and one successively turn over on downs.

We saw the third and one

fail, end up having a punt because you couldn't get a yard.

First and goal from the Rams 5, turnover on downs.

That's the one that really killed me.

And then they had the ball at the Rams 48 in overtime when they threw the interception.

And you have to wonder whether it's decision making, going forward, or just the play calling on those short yardage situations if Ben Johnson had the right thing schemed up.

And I think his explanation on why they did not go for 2 at the end of regulation kind of sums it up.

He went from not having faith maybe in his defense in the manner that he should have by the time you saw what the defense was putting out there to having that same lack of faith in short-guarded situations.

And it was warranted and merited because of the way the game ended.