Maybe the least surprising thing about Sunday night at Soldier Field – besides the final score – was how much the two teams interacted before the game. In a general sense, there’s probably no better example of what the Bears are trying to be than the Chiefs. Matt Nagy brought over plenty of coaches from Kansas City when he took the Bears' head coaching job in 2018, and his offensive vision is modeled after Andy Reid’s Patrick Mahomes-led juggernaut, and not just in a complimentary, copy-cat league way.
It’s not difficult to believe that at one point, a blueprint that cast Mitch Trubisky as Mahomes (and Tarik Cohen as Tyreek Hill and Adam Shaheen as Travis Kelce) felt a little store-brand, but achievable nonetheless.