Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams had a pair of “oh, no” throws Friday that would have been the talk of the week had the Bears not beaten the Philadelphia Eagles on a national stage.
The first was a back-of-the-end-zone dart to Olamide Zaccheaus, who was wide open on a “hero post.” The pass sailed in front of Zaccheaus as he dived to make a play on it in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, a second would-be touchdown pass dropped too low in front of Rome Odunze by the right pylon for him to cradle it.
Bears coach Ben Johnson said the pass to Zaccheaus is called a hero post because “you want to be a hero — that’s when you throw that thing because it’s so rarely thrown. (Williams) happened to find it, it was open and we just barely missed that thing.”
On Odunze’s play, he wa

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