Fun Fraud Files: The 2025 Must Watch TV Chicago Bears Have The Second Worst Point Differential For An 8-Win Team Through Eleven Weeks
Stay mad, NFL. The Chicago Bears are at the big team table.
Here's where I'm at with this team as a fan. We are complete frauds. That's just a fact. Dead to rights. All my fraud meters are jumping out of their gears. We've beaten most of the league's laughing stock teams (26-56-1 combined record) by the skin of our teeth and after running the point differential numbers again we have only the second negative point differential for any 8-win team in their first 11 games in NFL history.
Those 1987 Chargers went ahead and lost the last four games of the season and missed the playoffs. Then again, the Panthers made the Super Bowl in 2003 and they weren't incredibly better with a +14. So who knows!?
Enough history. Let's talk present. Today was yet another mixed bag. Ben Johnson's play calling and scheming is absolutely elite, but maybe some more love needs to be thrown Dennis Allen's way for putting a gameplan together with backups to backup backups. Started the game with zero starting linebackers, Jaylon Johnson and Kyle Gordon out, and I forget who else. Then the Bears suffered additional injuries in-game. This led them to them either putting in a guy named Carl Jones Jr. or a guy from Carl's Jr, I forget which. I'd believe either just the same. Still, found enough to get it done. Even going against a plodding Mason Rudolph, this was much better than expected.
As for Caleb Williams - he was bad all things considered. A complete mixed bag that's good enough on it's whole to beat the downtrodden. And that's kind of what makes this team must watch TV. It was nice to see a couple decisive darts for those first two touchdowns and connect on the layup of a third touchdown to Moore. That's what has to be more consistent.
But you still really never know if Caleb is going to sling a dart for a touchdown or sail a ball 5-yards wide to an open receiver. I can't see this getting any better this year and will have to be a Ben Johnson off-season miracle working like he did coaching out the sacks.
Then we had this…
Not fair this part of the field was in the dark! All part of the ride though for this wild team.
In true dramatic cardiac Bears fashion, Caleb would go ahead and end the game with two three-and-outs while missing receivers to give the Steelers a chance to pee down their legs a couple more times. Have to think he'd have been better had the Bears been losing. That's just how this team operates.
This is just an all-time weird team. The party might be over now with the Eagles, Packers, Browns bye-week, Packers, 49ers, and Lions left. But every Sunday is so much fun to watch play out.
Until then we stay seated at the big team table! Stay mad NFL.