The Bears shouldn't have let this happen to the them in the first game of the season.
as they built an 17-6 advantage over the Minnesota Vikings entering the fourth quarter. Things couldn't have gone any worse in the deciding quarter as Caleb Williams and first-year head coach Ben Johnson watched the visitors put up 21 unanswered points to hang a 27-24 loss on the Bears.
And with that, optimism at Soldier Field. Asked by local radio reporter about what happened out there to turn victory into defeat, the quarterback had a simple answer.Williams's assessment is probably accurate. Yet it won't make Bears fans feel any better because if you can't maintain focus in the first game of the season when everything is going well, it's only going to get harder. Perhaps seeing McCarthy struggle significantly in the first half obviously lured the Bears into a false sense of security as they believed they would simply coast to a season-opening victory. And Johnson was conducting his business as a head coach for the first time and there's a learning curve there about managing all that goes into finishing out a win.Kyle Koster is an assistant managing editor at Sports Illustrated covering the intersection of sports and media. He was formerly the editor in chief of The Big Lead, where he worked from 2011 to '24. Koster also did turns at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he created the Sports Pros blog, and at Woven Digital.
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