And with their third consecutive win, the Chicago Bears are in the midst of their second honest-to-goodness winning streak this year. We’re ten games into the season, and the team has reached a level no one could have predicted — all alone in first place in the NFC North at (7-3)!

There’s plenty of football to go, and the Bears’ schedule seems tough, but stranger things have happened.

Can the Cardiac Bears keep it up?

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It’s November 19th, and your Chicago Bears are in first place in the NFC North.

I repeat, it’s November 19th, and your Chicago Bears are in first place in the NFC North.

“They haven’t beaten anybody.”

“They are the luckiest team in the league.”

“Caleb Williams stinks.”

Just let the hate wash over you like a warm shower. Embrace it.

They hate us because they ain’t us.

I have two words for the people who just want to knock the 2025 Chicago Bears: “Shove it! (We toned it down from what you were expecting.)

I don’t know what’s going to...

The Bears have signed linebacker and notable special teamer Jalen Reeves-Maybin to their practice squad, the team announced on Tuesday.

Reeves-Maybin, 30, was originally a fourth-round pick by the Lions in 2017. He spent seven of his eight seasons in the NFL in Detroit, having had two stints there with one year on the Texans in between in 2022. He has served primarily as a special teamer throughout his career, making a Pro Bowl and being named a second-team All-Pro for his work in the third phase in 2023. This marks the first time he has been signed for the...

It feels so foreign to have the Chicago Bears be good. Or at least winning.

They were losing so often, for so long, I forgot what this is like.

Each week, it feels like another poor record from recent years is getting broken.

For example, Ben Johnson has more road wins as the Bears’ head coach than Matt Eberflus did. He’s coached 16 fewer road games than his predecessor.

He’s also matched Eberflus’s best single-season win total.

I could go on. The point is, things are better right now.

Even if the wins are wild, come-from-behind, messy, near-miraculous finishes, let’s...

1. That’s five times, now. Five times, the Chicago Bears have come back to steal a win from an opponent in the final minute this year. Is it Ben Johnson’s manic energy? Is it Caleb Williams becoming The Guy? Is it pure luck? All of the above? I don’t care. Because right now, the Bears are in line to win more games than they have since 2018. Ride the wave, baby.

2. What’s the bigger story: that the 9-2 Denver Broncos are tied with the New England Patriots for the best record in the NFL, or the fact that they...

Week 11 was home to multiple great matchups, and as the season starts to wind down, we might have received a few early playoff previews. With crazy games all over the place, there was no shortage of exciting games to watch on Sunday. While some teams are separating themselves, others continue to struggle to find consistency. It might be hard to believe, but with only seven games left in the regular season, the playoff picture in both conferences is starting to come into focus. Following the conclusion of the 11th week of the season, let’s find out who is up...

Picture this: it’s September 15th, the Bears have just been rocked by the Detroit Lions by 31 points, fall to 0-2, and are 1-12 in their last 13 regular season games.

Bleak. Things are looking very bleak.

Fast forward, and it is November 18th, and things could not feel more different. Winners of 7 of their last 8 games, and in first place in the NFC North, the Bears are no longer bleak. There is life. There is belief. There is a hunger.

A 7-3 Bears team after 10 games felt like an optimistic projection given last season and the...

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Commanders to sign Bears practice-squad kicker Jake Moody: report – Chicago Sun-Times...

Five weeks after Jake Moody’s 38-yard field goal gave the Chicago Bears a 25 to 24 win over the Washington Commanders, the Commanders have signed Moody off the Bears’ practice squad. The NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero first reported the move.

The Bears initially signed Moody to their practice squad on September 12, just three days after being waived by the San Francisco 49ers.

Moody was elevated for a couple of games this season, and he was 8 for 9 on field goals and 3 for 3 on extra points in the Navy and Orange. While in San Francisco, he was...

Last week, I kindly asked the Chicago Bears to win a game in blowout fashion so that my blood pressure could have an easy-going Sunday.

Unfortunately, the team didn’t listen. Another rollercoaster of a game on Sunday resulted in a Chicago Bears last minute victory yet again, this time at U.S. Bank Stadium against the division rival Minnesota Vikings.

It was a game that had some brights spots to be sure, but also quite a few concerns that served to magnify the importance of the defensive side of the ball getting healthy ASAP. And a pass rush would sure be...

Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson says you never apologize for wins in the National Football League. The Bears are (7-3), and considering how bad this franchise has been, that’s an awesome place to be.

“Proud of the guys, seven and three, that’s nothing to scoff at,” Johnson said in his postgame press conference. “As ugly as it can be at times, I mean this group’s just proven time and time again that when it’s close there in the fourth quarter that we’re capable of finding a way. So, first division win on the road, and I’m really proud of...

The crow has been served, and I am about to eat it dutifully.

Every time someone asked before the season how I felt about the Chicago Bears’ prospects for 2025, I’ll charitably say I went with the “reverse psychology” approach: “Wake me up once they get to seven wins.” In my mind, seven wins felt like a perfectly acceptable number for a Bears team with a first-year head coach, a developing young quarterback in his second offense in as many years, and a roster that wasn’t ready to contend for a title yet.

But more than anything, I just didn’t...