Monday night at Soldier Field was supposed to feel like a celebration for Ben Johnson ’s first game running the Bears . Instead, fans walked out shaking their heads, wondering, ‘ Wait…how did we blow that one ?’ Ben Johnson talked positives and negatives post-game, and he had some interesting things to say.
The common denominator for the loss ? Mistakes. “Obviously, a disappointing way to start the season there for us. (Took a pause) We just have a 17-6 lead and then see it go the way it did there in the fourth quarter. We said going into week 1 that the team that makes the least number of mistakes would win the game. But unfortunately, we were on the wrong side of that. We made too many there, late in the game. Myself included ,” he said.
Yes, when you coughed up 21 points in