For a moment, irrepressibly sunny Bears coach Matt Nagy ventured into the cynical land where the rest of us live and imagined an alternate reality in which Eddy Pineiro missed the last-second field goal against the Broncos.
“If you don’t make that kick... think about the story we have right now,” he said. “I mean, it’s different. You’re 0-2. You have a kicker who didn’t make the kick. All the blame goes there...”
The Bears are always on the brink of confronting their sorest subject, and The Curse of Robbie Gould hangs over the franchise three years after general manager Ryan Pace cut him.