LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson called out his team on Wednesday, saying his players aren’t practicing hard enough.

“I think our practice habits are yet to reflect a championship-caliber team,” he said.

Asked specifically which practice habits aren’t “championship-caliber,” Johnson gave a lengthy list.

“We should be going to the football, finishing hard,” he said. “We talk about it all the time with the offensive players that our fundamentals, our finish and our technique, they need to show up in walk-through, they need to show up on the practice field. That’s how it shows up on game day. Simple things of how do we properly block? How do we catch the ball? How do we block after the catch? Ball security and things like that. It’s the little things that you learn

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