For all of his strategic brilliance, Bears coach Ben Johnson is still a football coach at the heart of it.

Football coaches never let their team get ahead of themselves.

At least the ones with an ounce of value never do. Johnson wasn't letting his team do it even after Monday's 34-17 win over the defending Super Bowl champions in what may have been their biggest regular-season victory under their coach.

"There's a lot of places that we can get better at as well which we'll do, we'll look at in depth over the bye week but we're just solely focused every week," Johnson said. "I tried to explain this last week. We're just focused on how do we get 1-0 for the next week? Once we get into December and January, we'll start worrying about big-picture stuff, but we got to continue to improve and we got a short week coming up with a good opponent that's kind of hot right now.

"They're playing good football. So we got to keep it going.…