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The Chicago Bears kick off the 2026 NFL season against the Carolina Panthers, where head coach Ben Johnson is looking for his first Week 1 win.
News that Mike Ditka was back in Chicago and paying attention to the Bears from his Streeterville condo was almost as heartening as stories of Pope Leo XIV keeping up with the White Sox from the Vatican.
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When the Chicago Bears hired Ben Johnson as head coach, the organization envisioned and hoped for early success. Well, they got it. The former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson was a hot commodity last coaching cycle,
Their pass rush was no better, putting in a league-worst 16.1-percent pressure rate for Week 1. They also made several big mistakes that didn't help. Bill Barnwell at ESPN details a few of them, here: Carolina inadvertently doubled Rome Odunze over the middle of the field instead of passing him off from one defender to the next as Williams scrambled just before halftime,