The new narrative around the Chicago Bears is that there’s a completely new narrative under first year head coach Ben Johnson, and the success he’s had through the first 11 games of the season.
Picking up five fourth quarter comebacks and winning six games in which were one-possession games, the Bears have become a team that is in every game until the very end, just one year after enduring a 10-game losing streak. Over recent weeks, there’s been a lot of chatter around the franchise not being the “same old Bears” and as they continue to pick up wins, the players are buying in on that narrative as well.
Following the Week 12 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, superstar pass rusher Montez Sweat echoed “not the same old Bears” the same thing his teammate Kevin Byard has been saying, and now quarterback Caleb Williams is joining in on that conversation.
“Yeah, I mean, we’re an 8-3 team in the National Football League,” Williams told reporters. We feel good where we’re at, but we do got to get better. I would say, yeah, we don’t feel like we’re the same old Bears. We pull through for each other when it matters most. We got to keep getting better, like I said. It starts with me on my side, and we’ll keep growing from there.”
The same old Bears would’ve more than likely lost a majority of these close games that this year’s team has won, the same old Bears would be discussed as wasting quarterback and head coaching talent, but not so far this year. There’s still plenty of season to go and much more to improve on, but the 2025 Bears are certainly not the same old team, they’re full of pride, early success, and optimism moving forward.
