As the Bears were trying to come from behind with 2:02 remaining in the fourth quarter of Monday night’s loss to the Vikings, they foolishly burned the two-minute warning on a kickoff by kicking the ball into the end zone, where the Vikings brought it out and ran more than two seconds off the clock. Coach Ben Johnson knows he screwed up.

Johnson said on Tuesday that he wished he had told his kicker to boot the ball to the sideline, rather than out the end zone.

“At the end of the game I felt like we could kick it out of the back. We weren’t able to get that done. In hindsight I should have kicked it out of bounds,” Johnson said.

The Bears’ defense forced a three-and-out after that kickoff, but it was too little, too late: By the time the Bears got the ball back, only nine seconds re

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