Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears silenced plenty of skeptics with their dramatic playoff comeback against the Green Bay Packers. The second-year quarterback didn’t miss the opportunity to acknowledge those who doubted Chicago, including ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky.
Orlovsky had openly questioned the Bears’ legitimacy ahead of the playoffs, going as far as to predict that Green Bay would handle Chicago with ease in Saturday’s game.
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“I think the Packers win, and the Packers win handily,” Orlovsky said on First Take. “There’s nothing else that this defense is good at (aside from takeaways). Eventually, that catches up to you.”
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Williams wasted no time letting Dan Orlovsky know he got it wrong. After the Bears’ comeback playoff win, the former USC Trojan posted multiple photos on Instagram, including a video clip of Orlovsky questioning Chicago’s defense before the game.
Caleb Williams backed it up on the field in his postseason debut. After his team trailed 21-3 at halftime, he engineered a remarkable turnaround, leading the Bears to a 31-27 victory. He threw for 361 yards and two touchdowns, capping off a statement performance on the biggest stage.
Caleb Williams claims that the comeback win wasn’t a “fluke”
After leading the largest comeback in the Chicago Bears playoff history, Caleb Williams made it known that the performance was no fluke and that the victory reflected a season-long trend for the Bears.
“It’s no fluke,” Williams said. “It’s not, ‘Oh, this happened; we’re lucky.’ We’ve done this multiple times this year. It’s been proven for us to be a great second-half team. In the playoffs, you can’t get behind every game. You can’t have the miscues and things like that.
“So, we’re going to go back and fix it. But if the game comes down to it, we’re going to keep fighting. If the game comes down to the last play, if the game comes down to the last two minutes, I believe in us, and that’ll keep going forever.”
A clutch 25-yard touchdown with just under two minutes remaining marked Caleb Williams’s seventh game-winning drive of the season, tying him with Denver Broncos’ Bo Nix for the most in the NFL and setting a Bears franchise mark not seen in more than 50 years.
The road doesn’t get any easier for Chicago, as the Bears are set to host the No. 5 seed Los Angeles Rams at Soldier Field in the NFC divisional round on Sunday. Los Angeles advanced with a dramatic 34-31 victory over the Carolina Panthers, capped by a game-winning touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to tight end Colby Parkinson with under a minute remaining.
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