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Note to Bears: The Packers will be happy to end your season if you start slowly yet again in wild-card game

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

The Bears were DOA Sunday for a 19-16 regular-season-ending loss to the Lions at Soldier Field.

Down, out and abysmal?

Disinterested, obtuse and maybe even arrogant?

For three quarters, yes and yes.

Oh, yeah — dead on arrival, too?

No question about it.

“We came out a little flat, energy-wise, and I think we’ve got to do a better job of having urgency from the jump and getting it going,” quarterback Caleb Williams said after the Bears (11-6) managed not to dent the scoreboard with a single point until the fourth quarter of a game that seemingly should have mattered too much for such nonsense.