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Week 3 vs Cowboys: Good, Better, Best chant No. 2

September 21, 2025 · Soldier Field, Chicago, IL

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FIRE US UP, COACH 🔥 #chicagobears #postgame #inspiration

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How the Bears won

• Ben Johnson's first win as an NFL head coach came after an 0-2 start that included a 52-21 loss at Detroit; earlier in the week he had publicly called the team's practice habits short of championship caliber. [source]
• Caleb Williams completed 19 of 28 passes for 298 yards and four touchdowns (142.6 rating), tying his career high for TD passes. [source]
• Rookie Luther Burden III scored his first career touchdown on a 65-yard flea-flicker in the first quarter and finished with 101 receiving yards on three catches. [source]
• Rome Odunze (62 yards, his fourth TD of the season) and Cole Kmet (10-yard score late in the first half) also caught touchdown passes. [source]
• DJ Moore's 4-yard fourth-down touchdown in the third quarter capped a 19-play drive that consumed 9:54 of clock. [source]
• The defense intercepted Dak Prescott twice (Tremaine Edmunds had both) as part of three takeaways; Prescott went 31-of-40 for 251 yards with one TD to George Pickens. [source]
• Chicago's offense totaled 385 yards, and the victory was the franchise's 799th regular-season win. [source]
• The game marked Matt Eberflus' return to Soldier Field as Dallas' defensive coordinator, his first visit since Chicago fired him as head coach the previous November. [source]
• Cowboys star CeeDee Lamb sprained an ankle in the first quarter and was ruled out for the second half; Bears rookie TE Colston Loveland left with a hip injury. [source]
• Johnson said afterward the Bears were still 'behind the 8-ball' at 1-2 and would enjoy the win for one night before moving on. [source]

The chant after this one

Every win ends the same way: Johnson gathers the room, calls for quiet, and leads the four lines one at a time with the whole team answering. This was chant No. 2 of the Johnson era.

Game balls: Caleb Williams, Tremaine Edmunds. See the full tracker.

• Johnson handed out game balls to Caleb Williams and Tremaine Edmunds; Williams then tossed the last ball back to Johnson, and players mobbed their coach. [source]
• This was the first time the Bears publicly released footage of the 'Good, better, best' chant; Johnson set it up by telling players to repeat after him, and fans took notice. [source]
• Marquee's account of the scene: after Williams gave Johnson the last of three game balls, Johnson led the locker room in the chant. [source]
• Bears On SI described the huddle as showing more passion than the team had seen from a head coach in years; Johnson was notably reserved at his press conference afterward. [source]
• Johnson has explained the chant as 'one heartbeat, one voice' — a fond memory from his own high school locker room. [source]

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