Caleb Williams-DJ Moore 'miscommunication' leads to fateful interception
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What led to the Bears’ overtime interception against the Rams?
Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Middays 10 a.m. to two on Chicago Sports Radio 670 This. From the 48, deep drop, Williams got time. Shot down field control
is intercepted. Can't curl! Current goes over, makes the play, and the Rams have it back!
There it is, courtesy of NBC Sports. That's Mike Tarico and Chris Collinsworth on the call. The dagger, the cam curl interception. Bears on their best chance of overtime, unfortunately. Get the drive that they did not need. Ten plays was that drive going six minutes and three seconds. And then all it took for the Rams was ten plays down the field, field goal, and a twenty seventeen final. This is Raheemy Harrison Grody on six seventy the score. And unfortunately in a game where every single millimeter mattered in the NFL playoffs and you know what is on the line, a trip to the NFC Championship game. How much will that play Live in your head. We've seen miscommunications with receivers before. Unfortunately, there was one in the previous game against Green Bay involving Luther Burton.
But DJ Moore, Chris Collinsworth even said it when he was watching in that in that analysis of the call, right after you heard Mike Tariko say he wasn't going to the right spot and he's not the only one.
No, I think watching it at first I was like first of all, I was upset with the play design and call because to me, this was a once the Rams were stopped in overtime, take your time getting nickel and dime situations. When I say nickel and dime, I don't mean the coverages. I mean five yards hit, ten yards here, maybe even go to tempo. Just to keep it moving. Wear the the it we're in overtime. Rams defense is Worn down. Just take what you can get to get into field goal range. You don't need to do anything super aggressive. This isn't a Green Bay Packers situation going for the kill and the coverage that you want. This is just take care of the football above all else. That's what I was thinking the entire time.
So when he's throwing it down the field, why are you uh and before I could even get the thought out, the ball had been intercepted. And in my mind, the game was over at that point because two two bites at the apple for Matt Stafford in overtime, that sounds like a poison pill you're swallowing.
Did it did not look good for for DJ Moore in in the breakdown. The way he was running the route, what Caleb was trying to get him to do, it doesn't look good for DJ, but I can add this, uh, and that is that I did not see DJ Moore in the locker room afterwards. Don't know why. Maybe it was an injury, maybe he didn't want to deal with us, maybe he'll speak today out of Hallis Hall, but that's the important part. That's the missing part right now. I don't know what DJ Moore was thinking on that. I don't know if he had has like if he was hurt, if he and some of that is look, it if he if he was slowed by injury, of course you say he should take himself out. Coaching staff d has to have some culpability for that as well.
So I'm looking really forward to hearing exactly from DJ's perspective what happened.
And I think it's important for us at this time to say, you know, you can call it excuses, but we take hit injuries seriously here. And when he's in the tent for five good minutes at least before he comes back out onto the field I take that into consideration. This Bears team and their players deserve every benefit of the doubt from me. You can feel however you want about it as a listener. You can say, oh, these are excuses. We know there's been tape before of unfortunately DJ not being on the same page with Caleb Williams. We've seen it out of other receivers. We know that the Rams secondary was biting on practically everything. Kobe Durant could have had two more interceptions in that game. game. The truth is also that when you throw three interceptions in a playoff game, a la Josh Allen the day before, it usually is not going to go well for you.
That said, I think he thought he was throwing the ball to one place. It was not a misread of a defense as much as it was he Caleb Williams thought that DJ was going one place, DJ thought he was going in another, and the Rams secondary at that point had seen enough of the Bears offense to where they knew where the ball was going.
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