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Chris Tabor had just won his first game as the Panthers’ interim head coach — a sloppy, rainy 9-7 victory against the Falcons on Sunday — and it felt good.
“Sometimes you knock at the door all the time and no one answers,” said Tabor, the Bears’ special teams coordinator from 2018-21 and assistant special teams coach from 2008-10. “And then sooner or later you have to kick it down.”
He did, literally, having running back Chuba Hubbard fall down at the Falcons’ 2 to set up a game-winning 23-yard field goal by former Bear Eddy Pineiro as time expired.