There’s an unspoken rule between coaches and sideline reporters: Don’t ask hard questions, only give coach-speak answers, and let the coach go back to his team.

CBS Sports’ Aditi Kinkhabwala apparently doesn’t play by those rules.

The Bears’ offense struggled in the first half against the Raiders, scoring only nine points, and Chicago, not surprisingly, found themselves on the short end of a 14-9 score.

After Johnson touched on some of the issues confronting the offense, Kinkhabwala followed up by asking, “OK, so what did you tell them to get things going?”

“That it wasn’t our brand of football. We’re capable of a lot more,” Johnson said. “So, we’re hitting the reset button here at halftime. We’re gonna come back and establish our identity here in the second half.”

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