What did we just see? What happened?

Watching the Bears' 27-24 loss to the Vikings Monday night at Soldier Field was like walking through a bakery, sampling cakes and cookies, then turning a corner and having a tin-bottomed, shaving-cream pie jammed in your face.

Everything we thought we knew about the Bears, everything we thought we were seeing at the start of this hugely built-up opening night game was just wet fluff.

The Bears scored on their first drive — excellent 9-yard scramble for the touchdown, Caleb Williams! — and that was about it for offensive grit. Leading 17-6 in the third quarter thanks to cornerback Nahshon Wright’s 74-yard interception for a touchdown of a JJ McCarthy pass, the Bears had this game in the bag.

They didn’t even need to do much — just hang on, show how

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