Mark Potash

It can be difficult for all of us to not make grand proclamations about a season.

But to your point about how it got better and better and better, it felt like early in the season.

And you and I probably at some point in time talked about it, whether on air or off the air.

There was something about it that didn't feel sustainable earlier in the season.

But by the end of the year...

It started to feel as fortunate as some of the bounces were for the Bears, even at the end of the season.

There was a lot that felt sustainable about the way they were winning in the final six or seven games, which leads me to the idea that it feels sustainable going into this next season, which I haven't felt in forever, Mark.

Yeah, I mean, and Mark, the three elements, we've talked about it before, the three elements that made it so sustainable or made it real, made it happen this year and make it sustainable, you know, the coach, the quarterback, the offensive line are pretty much still there.

So I think, you know, the Bears are going to be – hey, the –

The Bears won seven games with fourth quarter rallies.

Their coach didn't make any friends at the end of the season in the playoffs.

They're going to be pegged as a team that will falter, that is due for a fall in 2026 because they have the seemingly unsustainable elements of all those miracle comebacks, all those breaks, 33 takeaways on defense.

That in and of itself is not sustainable.

Um, so they will be pegged as a team, but I go back to the same thing.

When you have the coach and the quarterback in place, that, that, that's a game changer as far as that goes.

And I think that, you know, uh, I think that's where, uh, there's a, they at least start, they have a foundation of being sustainable.

And frankly, you know, it doesn't get talked about enough for you.

They also, they won seven games, but they lost four games late.

Also they weren't,

They were eight and five in one-score games.