The Chicago Bears enter their Week 7 matchup against the New Orleans Saints riding a three-game winning streak.

Despite the Saints’ 1-5 record, the Bears (3-2) aren’t underestimating them or worrying about a letdown.

“I don’t know what that word means,” coach Ben Johnson said this week. “We’re going to embrace what the mission is, and that’s to beat a really good football team coming to town. … They continue to ascend, so we won’t overlook this opponent.”

Both Bears coordinators, Dennis Allen (defense) and Declan Doyle (offense), overlapped on the Saints coaching staff from 2019 to 2022.

“I have a special place in my heart for New Orleans,” Doyle said. “That was obviously where I got started. Sean (Payton) hired me when I was 22 and I moved down there and I kind of grew up in the NFL i

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