It was fitting that, on a night of offensive ineptitude, Thursday’s matchup between the Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks ended with a wobbly duck being blocked by Caleb Williams.

In a last-ditch attempt to force overtime, Williams faced a massive Seattle attack on 4th-and-10 from the 40-yard line. The rookie tried to hit DJ Moore deep, but when he was hit on the release, the pigskin flapped way to short and was intercepted by Tariq Woolen to give the Seahawks the 6-3 road win.

“I was frustrated. Still frustrated,” Williams said in the team’s official transcript. “I’ll probably be frustrated until tomorrow when I get a good chance to look at it and stuff like that. I didn’t play well enough. I didn’t help put the team in a good position to win, but in an even better position to win, and that’s what it is.

Williams finished 16 of 28 for 122 yards with the INT for a passer rating of 53.0

The interception broke Williams’ rookie record of 353 passes without an interception. But even before the pick, the Bears’ offense remained a mess all night. Chicago managed 179 total yards of offense and just 11 first downs on the night. They gained more than a single first down on just two of nine drives – one of them coming on the final possession out of desperation.

An offense with the No. 1 pick at the helm, Moore, Keenan Allen and first-round pick Rome Odunze shouldn’t be this anemic, regardless of how well the defense played.

“I think today was one of those games where I think we played both sides of the ball pretty well today, special teams and defense,” Williams said. “And then we didn’t play well on offense. There were mistakes. There were stupid sacks that I took that lost 10, 14 yards, which is frustrating. But I have to say that I will definitely take the heat just because.” Some of the situations that I put us in, like I said, the sack that I took that I didn’t have to take that got us – we were empty and I brought a guy from the border with me. Head of the guy. And you still play, of course you want to have a positive game there, but in that sense it has to be better.

There are brief moments every week from the No. 1 overall pick — like Thursday night’s off-balance four-down connection with Moore before the two-minute warning — but there’s a lack of consistency from the quarterback or the surrounding talent .

Williams recorded seven sacks on the night, increasing his total to 67 in 16 games, the second-most among rookies and fourth-most among quarterbacks of all time.

“Frustrating, annoyed, but learnable, I would say,” Williams said. “I definitely think this will be good for me. I’m excited for the last game and then excited for the future.”

Interim coach Thomas Brown, whose offense has again struggled since he was called up to the big chair four games ago, took the blame for the recent offensive ineptitude, noting that the unit didn’t “execute.”

“I wasn’t good enough. Put it on me,” he said.

Thursday marked the second time this season that the Bears scored just three points in a contest – the only team to score three points or fewer multiple times this season. Last time (Week 10 vs. New England), former offensive coordinator Shane Waldron was fired.