Bears and Seahawks In-Game Blog

Fourth Quarter

Bruce Irvin, former Seahawk puts on the pressure and forces Wilson to throw too soon. Bears ball. Officials throw a flag on Irvin for taunting after play was over but it's too late to help Seattle as it was fourth down and the play was over. Bears 25, Seahawks 24. Final

Wilson stopped short scrambling but penalties on both teams. Fourth-and-6 with 21 seconds left.

Seattle at its own 36. Wilson tries drawing the Bears offsides and Seattle gets a false start by Everett.

A 15-yard completion to Lockett just short of the sticks and in bounds. So Seattle uses next-to-last timeout and it's fourth-and-1.

Seattle with two timeouts actually got a break when the flag was called because they would have had to use a timeout. Incomplete, Wilson throws short.

Bears call timeout on seocnd-and-16 with 42 seconds left.

Bears blitz Deon Bush and Wilson tries to scramble for 3 but Seahawks were holding.

Underneath for 4. That's not enough. The Bears will allow it all day.

Two timeouts left and Wilson is at his own 27. He has 53 seconds and two timeouts.

Incredible rolling pass by Foles to Damiere Byrd at the back of the end zone for the two-point conversion. He got a knee down and held with one hand with 1:01 left. Bears 25, Seahawks 24.

Graham gets the lobbed pass against double coverage by posting up, as I called. Touchdown and Bears are going for the win.

From 15, Kmet catches throw at back of end zone but is out of bounds in double coverage. Incomplete.

Officially first-and-10 at the 11. Foles sacked on first down and loses ball but Ifedi recovers it.

Seattle's pass defense is showing now why they were last in the NFL. But they also were fifth in red-zone defense so the Bears have a lot to prove. Jimmy Graham needs to be on the field as he has a good feel for Foles near the goal line.

TWO-MINUTE WARNING!!!!!!

Beautifully timed pass to Montgomery to the 25 and then another to Montgomery under the coverage for 14 yards. Bears in the red zone, where it all usually ends.

Mooney for 30 yards breaking tackles, more like snaking through them. And Seattle gets flagged for Taylor roughing Foles on the pass. At the Seattle 35 now. At the end of the play, Seattle tried to knock the ball away from Mooney's hands like Ogletree had done earlier and no flag was thrown for that.

They punt it into the end zone and Bears start at 20. Foles has been on time and in rhythm but the pass blocking hasn't been holding up since Borom moved in at left tackle.

Foles will get one last chance to take them down and score.

They lined up Graham way off the receiver as if to give up the yardage but Wilson threw it quickly and incomplete too low. Seattle to punt.

Holding play slows drive with 3:16 left. Seattle from the 38 tries another jet sweep and the Bears sniff this one out as Thomas Graham comes up and ends it. Third-and-21. Normally the Bears lay back in zone and let a team catch it and run for 17 yards and then give up a field goal. They can't afford to do that this time. They need pressure and coverage.

Both the offense and defense failed in this one when the game was on the line.

Instead of punting with five minutes left, they go for it and Foles tries to scramble, stops and throws deep to Damien Williams incomplete. Seahawks now in good shape to put it away.

Incomplete to Mooney. Bears really miss Allen Robinson in that situation, and now because it's fourth-and-4.

Montgomery pushes ahead for 2. Then Mooney settles into a dead spot in the zone for 4 and it's third-and-4.

Skinny post for 11 to Byrd.

Bears ball with 7:18 left at their own 29.

Zone read by Wilson for 4. Quinn gets sack No. 17 on the year on third down to force a field goal. Doesn't matter. Seattle only needs the field goal to make it a two-score game. And Myers misses the 39-yard field goal wide left.

Penny breaks 4 tackles and runs all the way down to the Bears 14.

Seahawks run an end-around play but Alec Ogletree flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after the play for hitting the ball out of the runner's hand after the play ended. First down at Bears 46.

Seattle shows how to handle a squib kick correctly. The up back fields it and returns it to the Seattle 32.

Now they need the ball back and the defense was unable to do anything on the last drive after playing a decent game earlier. It's another chance for Desai's defense to redeem themselves.

Montgomery drops a pass and injured Santos must try a 35-yard field goal in the snow and he makes it. Seahawks 24, Bears 17

Ifedi gets a false start, and gets hooted by the Seattle fans who didn't like him. Now it's third-and-goal at the 17.

As I said, no good camera angle but it did appear he had it anyway. Regardless, Montgomery tries to make a cutting run again on first down and loses a couple. Then Green beats James Daniels badly coming off the inside this time and gets a sack.

One official out of whole group gave him the first down and it did appear he had it. But no one else would call it. Now Carroll has thrown his red flag. I would doubt there is a camera angle showing something to indicate he didn't get it.

Fourth-and-inches at the 6.

Foles sneaks and comes up inches short.

Kmet gets back 14 with a catch at the 6, going down to the turf. Third-and-1.

Larry Borom in at left tackle for Jenkins and allows a sack.

Foles is cooking in the passing game. When he gets in a rhythm, he looks good. In fact, he looks much better than Dalton has all year. So that begs the question, what was the point of wasting a $10 million deal on Dalton when they needed money to keep Kyle Fuller around?

Third Quarter

Bears launch their own boot pass and Kmet catches it, spins and goes for 16 to the Seattle 15. Bears let the clock run out on the quarter, which makes no sense when you're losing by 10 points. Seahawks 24, Bears 14.

Montgomery powers for 3 on first down to the 31.

Three quick completions by Foles puts the Bears at Seattle 34. Last one for a first down by Montgomery was a dump-off but the other two he went after the sticks. A great pass and run by former Seahawk Jimmy Graham kick-started the drive.

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