Jon Gruden’s Latest Bears Take Is Ultimate Validation For GM Ryan Poles

The Chicago Bears are NFC North champions. Despite starting 0-2, with both losses coming against divisional foes, the team somehow reeled off 11 of its next 13 games to make the playoffs. With the Green Bay Packers’ loss on Saturday night to the Baltimore Ravens, the divisional crown belongs to Chicago for the first time since 2018. So much of the credit for this goes to head coach Ben Johnson and the work he’s done developing Caleb Williams, not to mention motivating what had been a fractured and dispirited locker room.