CHICAGO (AP) — Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears reached into their bag of tricks and dug deep in the end to pull out their wildest victory in years.

They matched their win total from last season and are in the thick of the NFC playoff race. Even so, they know they have room to grow.

“Yeah, we haven’t played our best football collectively as a team yet,” coach Ben Johnson said Monday, a day after the Bears outlasted Cincinnati 47-42 in a thriller that featured three touchdowns in the last two minutes.

“And yet," Johnson said, "we have found a way to win.”

The Bears (5-3) could at least exhale a day after their wild victory.

They're in a far better place in Johnson's first season than they were this time last year, when they were in a 10-game freefall that cost former coach Matt E

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