CHICAGO - "We’re going to get this thing cleaned up," Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson said after the team's 30-16 loss to the Baltimore Ravens .

Encouraging words, right?

I recall hearing the same thing from Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, over and over, during his close-but-ultimately-failed reign as quarterback from 2009 to 2017.

After losses, Cutler would say something about "cleaning up" whatever had gone wrong, with the assumption being matters would be sparkling pure by the next game.

"We’ll clean that up," Cutler would say of things like red zone failure, interceptions, running game collapse. It brought to mind a high-level car wash or elite hotel maid service after a trashed-out bachelor party in Vegas.

The thing was, stuff didn’t always get cleaned up.

The Bears made one

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