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See, this is what happens when you start to win or winning starts happening to you.
That insane and character-exposing killjoy called “expectation” pays you a visit — and often never leaves. Like Ralph Kramden’s mother-in-law: “Like the last time she came for a short visit, just for the holidays, Christmas and New Year’s. The only trouble is she came New Year’s and stayed ’til Christmas!”
Expectations have no rules, no guideline, no sense of when they’re unwelcome or have overstayed their welcome. So once the Bears found themselves pulling out unexpected win after unexpected win and looking down at every other team in the NFC North this deep into the season, guess who came for Thanksgiving dinner?