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Bears head coach Ben Johnson grew up playing the ‘‘Madden’’ video-game series.
He had no favorite teams, but he had a favorite circumstance.
‘‘I always liked taking the bad teams, putting them into franchise mode and building them up from there,’’ he said Friday.
There’s a metaphor in there somewhere, right?
‘‘Yeah,’’ he said with a smile.
Johnson, a first-year head coach, is doing well in his real-life rebuild. The Bears are 7-3 entering their home game Sunday against the Steelers and know they have to find at least three victories the rest of the way — against the hardest remaining schedule in the NFL — to state their playoff case.