More of the shame: Bears skid reaches 10 games with toothless loss to Seattle

With a depleted offensive line, the Bears played one of their worst offensive games of the season on Thursday night.

And that is saying something.

The Seahawks beat the Bears 6-3 on Thursday night at Soldier Field. It marked the Bears' 10th consecutive loss and dropped their season record to 4-12 with one game remaining.

Quarterback Geno Smith and the Seahawks scored a pair of field goals in the first half. Neither team scored in the second half.

The Bears totaled 179 yards of offense. It was the fourth time that the Bears offense failed to reach 200 yards in a game this season. Quarterback Caleb Williams took seven sacks. His nine-game streak without an interception ended at the very end of the game when he lofted up a last-ditch effort on fourth down that was picked off by the Seahawks.

Williams threw for 122 yards with no touchdowns on 16-for-28 passing. The Bears were playing without left tackle Braxton Jones and left guard Teven Jenkins. Backups Larry Borom and Jake Curhan filled those two spots, respectively.

Interim coach Thomas Brown’s Bears had one last chance to try and win it or tie it up and send it to overtime in the final minutes.

With the Bears facing a fourth-and-1 in their own territory, Curhan was called for a pre-snap penalty that sent the Bears moving 5 yards backward. That caused some confusion for Brown’s squad.

On fourth-and-6, Brown first sent out the punt unit. He had three timeouts remaining and just the two-minute warning. His defense had been playing well all night.

But then Brown called a timeout and decided to send the offense back on the field. The play he selected imploded from the beginning and Williams found himself backpedaling for his life. He lofted a pass that receiver DJ Moore somehow corralled for a first down.

But it wound up being for naught because the Bears stalled out at the Seahawks 40-yard line. On fourth-and-10 from the 40, they were outside kicker Cairo Santos' field-goal range.

Again they kept the offense on the field. Again Williams tried to make something out of nothing on fourth down. This time Seahawks cornerback Riq Woolen pulled down a game-ending interception.

It was a discombobulated game from the Bears offense and the indecision from the coaching staff on the first fourth-down situation felt symbolic for a team on a 10-game losing streak.

The Bears defense held Seattle to 6 points, but it still wasn’t enough for a victory.

Bears cornerback Kyler Gordon provided one of the few sparks of the night when he ripped the football away from Seahawks tight end Pharaoh Brown late in the third quarter.

Gordon ran the ball back to the end zone while the other 21 players on the field thought the play was over. Even the referees were confused. They discussed the play for several moments before announcing their ruling. They initially called it a touchdown.

Upon further review, however, Gordon was down after ripping the football loose. It was still a takeaway, but it was not a touchdown.

Instead, the Bears offense took over near midfield. Given how the offense was playing Thursday, the Bears might rather have kept their defense on the field.

Not surprisingly, the Bears offense couldn’t score after the takeaway. In fact, it somehow managed to put together a 6-play, 1-yard drive, picking up a first down before Williams took a 14-yard sack.

The Bears punted seven times in the game.