We go back to the drawing board after the weekend.”Īs is usually the case, both things can be true. 'We made it a little too tight, but at the end of the day, we gotta W. “I want to say resilient, but I feel like that’s a game we’re supposed to win,' cornerback Jaylon Johnson said. Even the Bears knew there was no excuse for losing to that Panthers team.
You can probably chalk most of that up to the Panthers being an NFL abomination. They found ways to lose with costly penalties, brain-freeze turnovers, and poor fundamentals. Since then, the Bears have found only pain, heartbreak, and calamitous error-prone football in one-score games. Prior to Thursday's rock fight extravaganza, the Bears hadn't won a one-score game in 410 days, with their last coming in Week 3 of the 2022 season when Roquan Smith picked off Houston Texans quarterback Davis Mills to set up a game-winning field goal. It’s never going to be exactly how you want it to be but I thought we did a great job of staying together, believing in one another, and finding a way to win.”
I wasn’t always pretty but that’s football. Honestly, we’ve been talking about just willing this thing to win. 'One of these close games where we could pull it out. “I feel like we’ve been searching for one of these,' linebacker T.J. Stay in the game with the latest updates on your beloved Chicago sports teams! Sign up here for our All Access Daily newsletter.
