CHICAGO – The Bears took possession with 5 minutes, 12 seconds remaining and a chance to go win a game.

They had lost nine in a row, and ending the season’s final home game by snapping the streak sure sounded sweet.

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There was a real shot a redemption for an offense that couldn’t do much of anything right, but it was ultimately left unrealized in a 6-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks at Soldier Field.

What played out over the rest of a chaotic sequence was littered with clock management issues, wasted time and struggles to protect Caleb Williams or consistently move the ball down the field.

The final play was a 4^th-and-10 where the Seahawks sent all-out blitz the Bears couldn’t handle, leaving Williams’ final heave in the hand of another team, Williams’ first interception since Week 6.

“Whirlwind,” receiver DJ Moore said. “A lot of things could happen, we had the fourth down. Then I think the pass got tipped that was going toward Keenan and they just picked it. You got your ups and downs throughout that drive.”

It was a messy sequence were the Bears looked a little chaotic, interim head coach Thomas Brown changed his mind from punt to fourth-down conversion – that worked out well for his team but burned a timeout.

The Bears were trying to score a touchdown at the end and win it, but even fell short of field goal range that would’ve given Cairo Santos a chance to tie it.

“I was kind of hoping we were just going for the win,” tight end Cole Kmet said. “I’m going to be honest with you. To tie it up, based on how we were going offensively, I totally understand it at that point. Just trying to go get a win there. Obviously, we couldn’t get it done.”

It took the Bears three minutes just to reach midfield. Brown had a fourth-and-five and trotted out the punt team, but called a timeout and changed his mind deciding to go for it. Quarterback Caleb Williams connected with Moore to pick up the first down. Then Williams fumbled and recovered possession leading into the two-minute warning.

Williams made a short completion after that, but it took 45 seconds to snap the ball again. He connected with Rome Odzune to convert a third-and-long, but Williams said he got hit in the throat and it took him a moment to recover from the impact as precious seconds ticked away.

“I don’t know if the coaches saw me,” Williams said. “Even though I got hit in the throat and the face, got to just get up and go and run down and snap the ball. Once again, just putting this game, taking the heat on this game.”

Then Williams threw an incompletion to stop the clock, but Brown had to call another timeout to avoid a delay of game.

“Just being able to have cleaner communication, get out of the huddle, snap the ball faster,” Brown said. “Didn’t want to waste plays and then you have a timeout from a delay-of-game standpoint. That was the reason for burning the timeout.”

Williams threw two more incompletions to set up a fourth down where the Sehawks sent the house and overwhelmed the Bears seven-man protection. There was a free rusher who disrupted Williams, who ended up tossing it up and getting it intercepted.

The failed drive wasn’t always clean in terms of communication and operation, which hurt an offense that had struggled all day and wasn’t at it’s best when it mattered most.

“You gotta stay calm when all the noise is the loudest,” Moore said. “I think we handled that. We just gotta figure a way to get the W.”