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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/theresabeeonyourhat on 2025-04-08 13:51:49+00:00.

Someone recently brought up the fact that Chris Conte blew the coverage on a last-second play in the regular season against the Packers, which gave Green Bay the win over the Bears & a division win. The only thing is Lance Briggs didn’t turn his head out to call an audible, and Chris wasn’t aware of the play¹. Chris also caught an INT earlier in the game that allowed the Bears to even be in the game at the end.

There’s also John Carney, who took the blame after New Orleans’ version of “The band is on the field”. If you listen to the announcers from 1:30 on, they talk about how Carney missed 5/7 of the previous kicks & how he told his HC that the holder kept screwing up, which is exactly what happened in the replay here.

Who else has been unfairly blamed for a loss when someone else messed up worse?

¹

This is the only article still standing from back then that mentions a miscommunication in the defense