Stop me if you've heard this before. The Chicago Bears just lost another sure-fire win because the team's head coach did his best not to lose the game instead of doing what needed to be done to win it.

It's honestly incredible how many of these losses head coach Matt Eberflus can add to his resume and still hold a job with the Bears.

Time and time again, his late game decisions are holding the Bears back and more people are beginning to take notice of that on a bigger stage.

If you thought it couldn't get worse than the Hail Mary loss to the Washington Commanders in Week 8, think again. The Bears continue to lose games in the most frustrating way possible and there's no excuse for the way the Bears lost on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.

After rookie quarterback Caleb Williams heroically led the team into field goal range with under a minute remaining, the Bears let off the gas and settled for a 46-yard field goal attempt to win the game.

Following the 12-yard completion to Keenan Allen, the Packers called their final timeout with 35 seconds remaining. The Bears had one timeout left and could have looked to get the ball closer for the game-winning kick but opted to run the ball against a loaded box for only two yards.

As a result, the Bears settled for the long field goal, that was kicked low due to the distance, and blocked by the Packers to end the game.

In summary, the clock was stopped with 35 seconds to go. The Bears were in rhythm, Packers were on their heels. They still had a timeout remaining and Eberflus decided that trying to advance it 8 more yards to get into a range where Santos never misses wasn't worth it. Got it.

— Bill Zimmerman (@BillTZimmerman) November 17, 2024

How much of a difference would that have made in this game? Since joining the Bears in 2020, kicker Cairo Santos is perfect from under 40-yards and now has 13 misses from 40+ yards.

To make things even worse, the Packers studied and were prepared for Santos kicking the ball lower on longer attempts. They even admitted a closer field goal would have been harder to block because of that.

Just talked to several players on the Packers FG block unit and all of them said they noticed that Cairo Santos kicked with a low trajectory when doing film study and they expected the Bears to run another a play, which in their opinion, would have made it more difficult to block

— Kalyn Kahler (@kalynkahler) November 17, 2024

Here's what Eberflus had to say about the final sequence of plays while speaking with the media after the game. 

"They were loading the box there. So you could say you could do that for sure, maybe get a couple more yards. But you also risk fumbling and different things there," Eberflus said. "We felt where we were you know, if we got to the 36 or 35, you're definitely doing that because you want to get it inside there. I felt very confident where we were at that time, with the wind, and where we were on the field."

Coach Eberflus is speaking with the media https://t.co/yRvXfSdP95

— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) November 17, 2024

That definitely sounds like someone who was more worried about losing that game than winning it and that's not something you can do as a head coach.

To make things worse, that's now two game-winning touchdown drives by rookie quarterback Caleb Williams that went down as a loss for the Bears because of a decision made by his head coach on the final drive.

Caleb Williams has led two should have been game winning drives with under 2 minutes and the Bears have lost both on a Hail Mary and a blocked FG. Unbelievable

— Steve Letizia (Formerly CFCBears) (@CFCBears) November 17, 2024

Now, it's a wild play that ended the game with some questionable no-calls being made by the officials, but it's still on Eberflus for not putting his team in a better position to win the game.

It almost seems like the football gods are just punishing the Bears at this point for allowing this to continue with each passing week.

Simple reminders helped Caleb Williams get his confidence back and put pocket concerns behind him despite loss vs. Packers

Silver lining after another tough loss.