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The natural progression for the Bears next is winning in a close game at Minnesota to break an NFC North losing streak.
Either that, or it is collapsing completely to wallow in their own misery.
To their credit, no one at Halas Hall is hiding from what happened last week when they blew a game they dominated for the second time this season.
“It’s hand in hand, right?” Bears coach Matt Eberflus said. “So it’s really about us (coaches) doing a really good job of setting the players up to make the plays and putting them in position to make the plays and then the players going out and making those plays.
“You can watch that during the course of any NFL weekend, of the games we just saw, there’s plays being made by the playmakers at the end of the game and the coaches are putting those guys in position do that. That’s what closes out games..
It is what it is, but the transparency makes repeated losing within the NFC North no easier to take. After all, as GM Ryan Poles told everyone, the goal is to take the North and not give it back.
They haven’t beaten the Vikings since a huge 33-27 win near the end of 2020 under Matt Nagy, one which keyed their run to a wild card berth.
There couldn’t be a better time to accomplish it than after what happened last week.
“But we’re definitely excited for this opportunity. The Vikings, they have been playing great these past few weeks. Definitely excited for the opportunity we have on Monday night and get to go out there and ball out.”
They finally did virtually everything Eberflus wanted from his team on the field last week. They took the ball away four times. They committed only one turnover themselves. They held the ball over 40 minutes. They only had seven penalties to five for the Lions, which is a victory considering they haven’t had fewer penalties than an opponent in any game since Week 2. Justin Fields returned and they ran for a season-high 183 yards yet they made big plays in the passing game like a 39-yard TD pass to DJ Moore. They did everything right and led 26-14 with three minutes left.
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