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Chicago Bears’ first year’s head coach, Ben Johnson, was already criticized in the first game of the season against the Vikings of Minnesota while watching an advance in the fourth quarter.
The legend of the NFL Peyton Manning, half of ESPN’s “Manningcast” hosts in Monday evening matches, criticized how Johnson managed a key moment after a pass from Touché Caleb Williams to Rome Odunze.
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Chicago Bears Ben Johnson head coach before the Minnesota Vikings match on the Soldier Field on September 8, 2025. (David Banks / Imagn Images)
The touch of Chicago came with 2:02 to play. The Bears had a time dead and it may have been a good idea for the start that followed to get out of the limits so that the clock stops at the two-minute warning. Instead, the kick-off went to the Vikings turnr of the Vikings, Ty Chandler and the chief coach of Minnesota, Kevin O’Connell, reported that Chandler removes the ball. The two -minute stop was burned and the Bears had very little time to make any kind of offense on their next possession.
Manning was heard on the alternative broadcast saying that the Bears should have emerged from the limits.
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The Chief of Minnesota head coach Kevin O’Connell reacts in the second period to the Soldier Field on September 8, 2025. (Images Matt Marton / Imagn)
“Kevin O’Connell said they had spent a ton of time on situational football,” he said after the Bears marked, via Pro Football Talk. “It should be good situational football for both parties here.
While the Bears decided to reject the ball instead of getting a kick next to it, Manning was sure they would make it out of the limits. But they didn’t do it.
“Give it limits. Take the penalty, it’s 40,” he said. “Now you have the dead time and the two -minute warning. Out of limits. Not outside the goal area, out of limits.”
Johnson admitted during the post-match press conference that the kick in the goal area was not the intention.
The Vikings of the Vikings of Minnesota, Kevin O’Connell, talks with the quarter-Arrière JJ McCarthy (9) during the first half at the Soldier Field on September 8, 2025. (Images Matt Marton / Imagn)
The defense of the Bears granted 21 points in the fourth quarter. Chicago lost the match, 27-24.
