How? Why? Are the Bears setting up fans for another double doink of disappointment in January?

So many questions about this 7-3 start. Let’s try to answer a few from Minneapolis, site of the latest last-second victory.

The Bears didn’t do anything great. Even the NFL’s most powerful weapon — Caleb Williams’ escapability — proved fallible when he was sacked twice in the fourth quarter. He did have two miraculous sack-avoids (let’s make that an official stat) in the first half.

The play of the game, maybe the sequence that best epitomized the Bears’ entire season, came on the second snap of the third quarter. It was just a quick throw to Rome Odunze, about 6 yards downfield, and was nearly batted away by a linebacker.

Odunze had to dive for the ball, which wasn’t perfectly thrown. He got

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