There’s not a chance Ben Johnson looks at the Chicago Bears’ current situation and feels like they have to take a step back in order to move forward.

He’s not interested in dissecting what happened before his arrival in January, but he is responsible for getting the wayward franchise going in the right direction.

From a broad perspective, it would be understandable if a reset of sorts took some time, even if that reality undercuts the offseason hope and hype for a quick journey to relevance. No one said anything about retreating — as the Bears did in Sunday’s 52-21 thumping at the hands of the angry and motivated Detroit Lions. By the middle of the third quarter, Johnson’s team was engaged in a fruitless effort to keep up.

You can’t pin the loss, which dropped the Bears to 0-2, on an of

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