As has been said in this space on more than one prior occasion, it is not NFL important to be an artistic success, just a success. And after all of the talk and re-talk about specifics from the loss to the Green Bay Packers, “it was time to stop barking,” said coach Matt Nagy, “and start biting.”
Coming off one of the franchise’s more demoralizing losses of the past decade, the Bears defense broke open a perilously close game with two fourth-quarter takeaways, one a pick-six by cornerback Prince Amukamara, to key a 24-17 win over a Seattle Seahawks team that at times seemed more like gum on the Bears shoes that the two-time Super Bowl team of just a few years ago.