The Seattle Seahawks beat the Chicago Bears 6-3 in the lowest-scoring game of the 2024-25 season. With that Thursday Night Football win, Seattle kept its playoff hopes alive for at least a few more days.
If you don’t care about either of these teams, this was a painfully boring football game. The matchup featured 13 total punts and zero touchdowns. Then again, if you like defensive games, you were in luck because you got to see ten combined sacks.
The Seattle Seahawks got things going with a field goal on the first drive, giving them a 3-0 lead that would run well into the second quarter. That marked the 15th game this season where Chicago’s opponent scored first, a single-season NFL record.
Seattle’s rushing attack was the story of the first quarter with 53 yards on the opening drive. The Seahawks’ 61 first-quarter rushing yards are the team’s most since the start of the 2023 season.
Right down the middle. 🎯@JayMy_31‘s career-best eighth field goal from 50+ this season. pic.twitter.com/B1HtnCxWWw
— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) December 27, 2024
The Bears’ offensive woes continued when they had a 17-yard touchdown pass from rookie quarterback Caleb Williams to rookie wide receiver Rome Odunze wiped out by a holding penalty, so the Bears tied the game 3-3 with 2:32 to go in the half. The Chicago Bears had two touchdowns taken off the board in this game due to either a penalty or a replay review.
Seattle orchestrated an eight-play, 53-yard field goal drive to take a 6-3 lead into halftime. Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith, who threw for 160 passing yards in the game, completed three straight passes for 39 yards on the series.
The Bears’ brutal clock management on their fourth-quarter potential game-tying/game-winning drive was the team’s ultimate downfall. Chicago burned two timeouts when the clock was stopped because the team didn’t have the right play called.
A false start penalty on Bears offensive lineman Jake Curhan – the same person who was penalized on the aforementioned Rome Odunze touchdown – with 2:14 to go in the fourth quarter made a 4th and inches into a 4th and 5. Caleb Wiliams overcame that mistake and converted the fourth down to keep the game afloat and surpass the 100-yard passing mark. However, on the ensuing Chicago fourth down, Williams threw a pick to end the game and give Seattle the win. That snapped his streak of 354 straight pass attempts without an interception, a new all-time NFL record for a rookie.
Seattle will now root hard for division rival Arizona when the Cardinals face the Los Angeles Rams on Saturday. If the Rams lose, then the week 18 matchup with the Seahawks will be a win-and-get-in game for the NFC West crown.
