Something appears to have snapped, in a good way, inside Halas Hall: “This team is still building,” said safety Eddie Jackson in the wake of his second game-tipping pick-6 in as many weeks. “Coach told us we’re not the hunted no more; we became the hunter.”
That this was the fifth straight victory for a team with a new head coach is hugely significant in itself; the reason head coaches get to be “new” is because the team hiring them typically was or was playing bad enough to get the preceding coach fired.
The Bears (8-3) weren’t able to defeat the Lions twice in the span of the last five years.