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1st-and-10: A litmus test for Ben Johnson vs. Matt Eberflus
The last time Ben Johnson faced Matt Eberflus, when the Lions played the Bears on Thanksgiving Day last season at Ford Field, Johnson's...
Mark Potash
Sep 168 min read
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It's time to grade the fundamentals and not the flashes with Caleb Williams
Caleb Williams-to-Rome Odunze seems like one of those classic connections just waiting to happen. They seem to bring out the best in each other. When Williams looks for Odunze, it's like Jay Cutler throwing to Brandon Marshall. When he's looking for anybody else, it's like Cutler throwing to Devin Hester. The Bears' 2024 first-round draft picks came through again with a titillating throw-and-catch in an early key moment against the Vikings on Monday night. On third-and-five f
Mark Potash
Sep 133 min read
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The Bears Scrapbook — Week 2
Week 2 of the Bears scrapbook featured memorable special-teams oddities — like Dick Butkus' catch on a PAT that beat the Redskins 16-15...
Mark Potash
Sep 131 min read
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Caleb Williams just needs time? With Ben Johnson, that could be
The aftermath of Caleb Williams' hot-and-cold performance in a 27-24 loss to the Vikings on Monday night — like the performance itself —...
Mark Potash
Sep 114 min read
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1st-and-10: Meet the new boss ...
It was only one game, and the season opener at that. But for long-suffering Bears fans — even for short-suffering Bears fans — it was...
Mark Potash
Sep 99 min read
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The Ben Johnson Effect? So far, so good
The story last week by NFL insider Tyler Dunne that blamed quarterback Caleb Williams for a key role in the Bears' disastrous 2024...
Mark Potash
Sep 84 min read
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Mark Potash
Sep 60 min read
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Daunting schedule can't dull Ben Johnson's edge over Matt Nagy, Marc Trestman
This time for sure? Ben Johnson is not the first Bears coach to elicit excitement and hope that the Bears will not only become...
Mark Potash
Sep 43 min read
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1st-and-10: Setting the bar for Ben Johnson's debut season
Three consecutive winning seasons. That seems like a reasonable — and modest — bar for success for Ben Johnson as the Bears' head coach....
Mark Potash
Sep 27 min read
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The annual Bears Optimist/Pessimist Test
The Bears are always compelling in September but especially this year, when optimism about Ben Johnson's impact with 2024 No. 1 overall...
Mark Potash
Sep 12 min read
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Beating Matt LaFleur just got a little tougher for Ben Johnson
"And to be quite frank with you, I kind of enjoyed beating Matt LaFleur twice a year." That was Ben Johnson's mic-drop line that would...
Mark Potash
Aug 293 min read
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1st-and-10: Can Ben Johnson make a GM out of Ryan Poles?
Asked about the Bears' curiously vacant left tackle position 13 days before the season opener, Bears general manager Ryan Poles deferred...
Mark Potash
Aug 279 min read
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Doubts aside, Bears in better shape with Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson — but Sept. 8 can't get here soon enough
It's uncanny how no matter how hard the Bears try to solve their chronic — and I mean chronic — quarterback quandary, they always enter...
Mark Potash
Aug 264 min read
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Braxton Jones looks first up at LT, but he'll have to win the job every week
Bears defensive end Dayo Odeyingbo, who was general manager Ryan Poles' biggest expenditure in free agency in 2025 (three years, $48...
Mark Potash
Aug 234 min read
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A timeline of Bears quarterback futility — this time for sure?
As if the debate over Caleb Williams' training camp/preseason wasn't enough, Mitch Trubisky's visit to Halas Hall last week with the...
Mark Potash
Aug 226 min read
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The Sun-Times had the Tyson Bagent story down pat — from the beginning
CHGO Bears reporter Mark Carman broke the news that Bears backup quarterback Tyson Bagent had signed a two-year, $10 million contract...
Mark Potash
Aug 204 min read
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Caleb Williams' performance vs. Bills not bad for starters
When Bears coach Ben Johnson was asked to "put a proper frame" around the near-perfect opening seven-play, 92-yard touchdown drive...
Mark Potash
Aug 183 min read
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The rising cost of the Bears upset of the Packers in Week 18
A perusal of 70 mock drafts in April revealed three main candidates for the Bears' first-round pick: Penn State tight end Tyler Warren...
Mark Potash
Aug 153 min read
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Shades of 1969 — red-hot Brewers adding to Cubs' misery
Panic — or resignation — is starting to set in among Cubs fans, with the slumping Cubs starting to splinter, losing seven of their last...
Mark Potash
Aug 153 min read
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Bears' hole at left tackle not getting any smaller
"Trust Ben Johnson" has been the theme of Bears training camp. But even if Vince Lombardi is coaching the Bears, playing musical chairs...
Mark Potash
Aug 133 min read
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