Former Illinois player Devon Witherspoon called Carroll a fun guy.

“He’s a players’ coach, man,” he said. “A lot of players are going to look to him as soon as he gets there, if he gets that job. He knows how to make work not feel like work, so that’s what makes the game fun for him.

Added Smith: “Coach Carroll, he can help any team,” Smith said. “He can help anyone.”

Not just anyone. The Bears said Thursday they were desperate.

They should probably consider the 73-year-old Carroll because once some of the younger potential candidates, like Ben Johnson, get a close look at what happened in Thursday’s game and each of the losses in the 10-game losing streak Bears, they will. I want to go to the Jets or the Saints, or the Giants or the Raiders or the Jaguars or any other place in the league.

In trying to complete a two-minute ride, they managed to lose two timeouts like no one else would. They finished the game with one more timeout and looked in total disarray with three straight incompletions and a Riq Woolen interception ending the game.

A false start on a fourth-and-one, coach Thomas Brown’s indecision on whether to go for fourth down after the false start, sending the punt team in and then pulling it out after burning a timeout during a clock stop.

Quarterback Caleb Williams was hit in the throat and was unable to function properly after completing a fourth-and-14 miracle pass to the leaping DJ Moore and was unable to quickly reach the line of scrimmage.

It was just one thing after another and no one wanted to come to Chicago, a place where last night they chanted for the owners to “sell the team.”

Afterward, team president Kevin Warren had a serious expression on his face outside the Bears locker room, as he should. He’s trying to build a stadium and no one is going to give money for a project for an organization that puts on such a pathetic spectacle on the field.

Tight end Cole Kmet was then asked if he thought the Seahawks did things defensively to throw the Bears out of rhythm. This seemed laughable to anyone who saw the Bears’ “pace” most of the year.

“No, I don’t think so,” Kmet said. “I think it was all of us, honestly.

“I think there’s a lot of things we haven’t done well enough and I think that’s kind of the theme and the story of the year for us offensively. I just have to find ways to be better.”

There are plenty of ways to be better than what the Bears showed on offense Thursday. It would be better to break a soccer ball and fall on the ball.

Having Williams sack a team-record 67 times this year, including seven on Thursday, was only part of their futility. They trotted poor punter Tory Taylor across the field seven times as they wore out his leg. They had 10 possessions and eight failed to go beyond 10 yards.

It doesn’t make sense to talk about one game when there were a number of them during a 10-game Bears collapse that was just as derogatory.

So as stupid as it may seem to some to hire Carroll as coach at 73, they should probably consider him or maybe Jimmy Johnson, who is 81, or Barry Switzer, who is 87. They also won national titles and Super Bowls like Carroll.

It’s a total disaster. Here are the notes from another Bears fiasco, this one not only on national television like the Detroit Thanksgiving prank, but streamed internationally for the whole world to see.

At one point, the NFL banned games locally in an attempt to increase gate revenue. With the Bears, they should consider a permanent television blackout.

Running game: D-

D’Andre Swift actually broke a 12-yard run and DJ Moore had a completion for 11. They even converted a third-and-1 giving it to Roschon Johnson. Thanks to Caleb Williams’ 37-yard run, they broke 100 yards rushing for just the third time in the last nine games. So for that they avoid an F.

Passing game: F

The best pass Williams threw happened as he ran off the line of scrimmage at a steep angle with an army of passers after him and threw it as hard as he could so DJ Moore could jump and pulling it down on the final drive for a first down to convert on third-and-14. It took a lot of searching to find something Williams was throwing that looked like a basic, one-timer throw from the pocket for a footage gain. The TD pass he threw looked cool. Of course, that didn’t matter, as Jake Curhan, Teven Jenkins’ replacement, held on. Keenan Allen had a dropped pass during the game and right now it seems like a highlight compared to some of the other plays they’ve tried to run. Only four players caught passes and only Rome Odunze averaged more than 9 yards per catch. And Odunze only caught one, for 15 yards. Williams looked like he had been hit by a train on a few of the seven sacks he made. Overall, the Bears averaged 79.2 inches per pass. That’s 2.2 meters.

Run Defense: B+

It wasn’t the 122 rushing yards they allowed that seemed so impressive. They did better six other times. It was the way they adjusted in the half and shut it down to force Seattle to pass that gave them hope of winning a game without the offense doing anything. They allowed just 31 yards on 10 attempts in the second half as Gervon Dexter, TJ Edwards and DeMarcus Walker disrupted and stopped Zach Charbonnet’s run.

Pass defense: B-

Like the run defense, they seemed to get stronger as the game went on, fueled by a consistent pass rush. Montez Sweat and Darrell Taylor made sacks. Although they couldn’t intercept a Geno Smith pass, they limited him to 160 net yards and the explosive receiver triumvirate of DK Metcalf, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Tyler Lockett could only manage three catches each with just one gain of more than 19 yards. This might have been Kyler Gordon’s best game with the Bears, making six tackles, a pass defense, a forced fumble and a recovery. The only way it could have been better would have been if he hadn’t made contact while stripping the ball away, because then he would have scored a touchdown.

Special teams: B+

Taylor should have received a game ball for downing five of his seven punts inside the 20-yard line. Cairo Santos made his only basket. The punt coverage was the best all year, with no returns on all seven punts and one vicious hit delivered by Josh Blackwell. Blackwell also averaged 10.5 yards for his two punt returns.

Framing: F

Having another two-minute drill nearly as chaotic as the one they had in Detroit when Matt Eberflus was fired was inexcusable, even though it was a Thursday night with little practice time the week before. While Williams is partly to blame for his two-minute drive fiasco, the main part goes back to training. It took them five minutes to go from the Seahawks’ 11 to the 40 with three timeouts and the two-minute warning still remaining. Needless to say, Thomas Brown’s chances of landing the Bears’ head coaching job now look as good as their chances that appeared Thursday to tie the game or gain points on their last practice. In other words, no chance.

Overall: D-

Thursday night cannot be construed as an endorsement of general manager Ryan Poles for his three years on the job.

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