When Ben Johnson became the Bears\u2019 head coach at the start of this year, he was inheriting a young quarterback and a team that was coming off three straight last-place finishes and hadn\u2019t won a playoff game since 2010. But don\u2019t tell Johnson that makes the Bears a rebuilding team.<\/p>\n
Johnson said today that he has never viewed the mission as anything other than to win, starting this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mission has always been to win and to win now,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI said that in my opening press conference and I\u2019ve been consistent with that with the team. That\u2019s the end-all be-all, that\u2019s what we\u2019re going out there to do. I don\u2019t see this as a team in transition. This is the 2025 Chicago Bears and we have a chance to put a stamp on what this chapter of Chicago Bears history is going to look like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bears are 4-2 and head to Baltimore on a four-game winning streak. If they can win on Sunday to make it 5-2, they\u2019ll start to be looked at as realistic playoff contenders. Something Johnson thinks they should be, right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Ben Johnson became the Bears\u2019 head coach at the start of this year, he was inheriting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-250111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}