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Lessons the Bears can learn from the NFL’s final 4 teams

For the 12th time in 13 years, the Bears are spending championship weekend on the couch. Here’s what they can learn from the four teams — the AFC’s Titans and Chiefs and the NFC’s 49ers and Packers — set to play for Super Bowl berths Sunday:

TITANS— USE YOUR BULLPEN

The Titans benched quarterback Marcus Mariota, the No. 2 overall pick in 2015, midway through a 16-0 loss in Denver that dropped their record to 2-4. His replacement, Ryan Tannehill, has won nine of 12 starts since.

The Titans found a creative way to trade for Tannehill last offseason — the Dolphins sent him and a sixth-round pick to the Titans for a fourth- and seventh-rounder, and then the Titans reworked his contract.