Bears coach Ben Johnson gave Cairo Santos one directive before he kicked to the Vikings with 2:02 remaining in Monday’s game and Chicago trailing by three points.

“The intent was for the ball to go out the end zone,” Johnson said.

Santos’ kick did not make it through the end zone, though, giving the Vikings the opportunity to return the kick and burn valuable seconds off the clock that loomed large in their 27-24 road win .

Many on social media skewered Johnson in his Bears coaching debut for not having his kicker boot the ball out of bounds to preserve the valuable two seconds before the two-minute warning, thus gaining essentially another timeout, or at least trying for an onside kick.

“The coaching move there had to simply be to kick the ball out of bounds,” FS1 pundit Nick Wrigh

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