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When tight end Cole Kmet said the Bears were in “playoff mode” heading into last week’s game against the Lions, it probably drew more snickers than anything. The Bears had won two games out of three, but were 5-21 before that.
And even Kmet, a lifelong Bears fan who grew up in Barrington and Arlington Heights, knows that the notion of the Bears being in “playoff mode” was an in-house thing more than a civic cause.