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By Lauren Merola, Kevin Fishbain and Adam Jahns An epic battle between the top two picks in the 2024 NFL Draft will go down in history, with Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams and Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels executing a combined two touchdown drives, successful two-point conversion and Hail Mary in the final 30 seconds of their Week 8 matchup. Advertisement But Bears cornerback Tyrique Stevenson might be the name most synonymous with the infamous ending. After the ball was snapped on the final play of the game, with the Bears up 15-12, Stevenson was seen taunting the home Commanders crowd as Daniels scrambled to give his receivers time to reach the end zone in preparation for the Hail Mary attempt.
A few seconds later, Stevenson converged on the play, joining his fellow defensive backs in coverage near the end zone. OMG. While the Hail Mary play was going on Chicago Bears DB Tyrique Stevenson was taunting the crowd and celebrating a victory.
He then proceeded to have the ball bounce off his hand and into Noah Brown’s hands for the game winning TD. Talk about karma 🤯 pic.twitter.
com/WgxiiA6dzI — Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) October 28, 2024 When Daniels let it fly the 52 yards, Stevenson made contact with the ball around the 2-yard line, tipping it right back into the hands of Noah Brown in the end zone for the game-winning score. Stevenson did not talk to the media postgame, but posted on X: “To Chicago and teammates my apologies for lack of awareness and focus ..
.. The game ain’t over until zeros hit the clock.
Can’t take anything for granted. Notes taken, improvement will happen.” To Chicago and teammates my apologies for lack of awareness and focus .
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The game ain’t over until zeros hit the clock. Can’t take anything for granted. Notes taken, improvement will happen.
#Beardown — Tyrique Stevenson (@dreamchaserTy10) October 28, 2024 Bears coach Matt Eberflus said the game “comes down to that last play.” “We’ve practiced that play a hundred times since we’ve been here,” Eberflus said. “I have to look at what the execution was of that, but we have a body on a body.
Boxing guys out like basketball at the very end. We have one guy that’s the rim that knocks the ball down. We have a back-tip guy that goes behind the pile.
Again, I’ve gotta look at it and detail it out and make sure we’re better next time.” Asked if the “back-tip” guy was missing, Eberflus said, “I have to take a look at it.” A;FK;JD;KJF;LAKEJFLKJVAL;KEJL;JF;EFJ;LFAKJ JAYDEN DANIELS HAIL MARY! @COMMANDERS WIN! pic.
twitter.com/BsQ0Z84Rko — NFL (@NFL) October 27, 2024 Bears safety Kevin Byard said that he was the “jumper” in the Bears’ coverage for the Hail Mary. The Bears’ other defenders were tasked with building a triangle around him.
“You could talk about the details and what everybody is supposed to do,” Byard said. “Obviously, the quarterback had a long time to scramble back there. In that scenario, I’m supposed to be the jumper to try and jump and tip the ball down.
But as your standing back there and everybody is just kind of piling up, it’s kind of hard to get (the right) angle, trying to get a running start. Advertisement “By the time the ball is in the air, you’re trying to fight to get position and stuff like that. And the ball got tipped up in the air and obviously their back guy ended just making the play.
” For Brown and the Commanders, everything went according to plan. “That happened to be my assignment for the Hail Mary,” Brown said. “One guy in front, two in the back.
Trying to throw it up into a jumper and Zach (Ertz) did a great job getting a hand on the ball, allowing it to get back to me and we made the play.” With the win, the Commanders improve to a storybook 6-2, already collecting two more wins than all of last season, and drop the Bears to 4-3. Required reading (Photo: Peter Casey / USA Today).
