Yesterday’s action across the NFL was the best we have experienced in years. Eight games in the early slate, five games in the afternoon slate, no byes, and a ton of wild finishes. None wilder than the ending to the Bears vs. Commanders highly anticipated matchup. If you’ve been living under a rock, the Commanders and Bears both drafted their (hopefully) franchise quarterbacks in this year’s draft. The Bears selected Caleb Williams with the first overall pick, the Commanders selecting Jayden Daniels the pick after. Both quarterbacks have been tirelessly compared to each other and each performance has been looked through with a fine-toothed comb. The fact that both are just rookies with only a few games under their belt is lost on many, but both fanbases dying for success simply want to see their guy win and win now.
Jayden Daniels has outperformed Caleb Willimas in the first half of this 2024 season as Daniels is having the rookie success that has seemed to elude Williams thus far. But yesterday we got to see both draft picks face off in what would turn out to be one of the most memorable finishes for both of these franchises. In a defensive struggle that only saw four field goals total through the first three quarters, Caleb Willimas and the Bears offense flipped a proverbial switch in the fourth quarter and took back the lead. After a pass interference on 4th & Goal gave the Bears the ball at the one-yard line with under a minute to play. The Bears would punch it in, convert the two-point conversion and take a 15-12 lead. A quick out route to the sidelines for the Commanders got them up to their own 47-yard line making a throw to the endzone a bit more manageable. With two-seconds remaining, no timeouts and too far for a field goal, Jayden Daniels scrambled around trying to find some space and then did this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRt-eMZWmm4
Mayhem, jubilation, tears of joy and sadness. All of the emotions after one of the rarest completed passes in the sport. A play that will live on in the history of the game, the first matchup between the two futures of the league came down to the tipped ball caught for the game winning touchdown. You have to feel bad for Bears fans, they had the double doink a few years ago ending their playoff run, and now this play coming from a budding rival. An unbelievable sequence ending an unbelievable day of football.
The Commanders now improve to 5-2 on the season and hold the top spot in the NFC East. The Bears drop to 4-3 and now sit in the cellar of the best division in football, the NFC North
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