{"id":5943,"date":"2025-12-22T14:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:05:33","slug":"nfl-results-pick-of-week-16-lawrence-shines-for-jags-jackson-injured-as-ravens-face-play-off-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5943","title":{"rendered":"NFL results &#038; pick of week 16: Lawrence shines for Jags, Jackson injured as Ravens face play-off exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got the best coach in the world,&#8221; said Bears quarterback Caleb Williams about first-year head coach Ben Johnson after Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cq5q1ygnl42o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">remarkable win over Green Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a mixed rookie campaign for Williams, 2024&#8217;s first overall draft pick, his sophomore season has been stellar, filled with comebacks and frantic finishes where he has made the remarkable look like just another day at the office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Johnson&#8217;s play calling and Williams&#8217; execution, the Bears have won six games when trailing inside the final two minutes &#8211; no other team has won as many since the NFL merger in 1970.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After just five wins in total last year Chicago are back in the play-offs for the first time since 2020 &#8211; and there is no doubt Johnson, who masterminded Detroit&#8217;s all-powerful offence, has been key to the turnaround.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But so has Williams, an interesting character who had seemingly struggled to adapt from college to the NFL &#8211; or maybe just needed the right coach?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What makes the Bears so dangerous is their ability to fight back &#8211; Williams is in elite company as only the second quarterback under 25 with have six fourth-quarter comebacks in a season after Peyton Manning in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Against Green Bay, Chicago managed just three points in three quarters before Williams led them to 19 in the fourth and overtime &#8211; when the going gets tough the Bears get going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That could spell trouble for opponents in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c783gelevx3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got the best&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}