{"id":43552,"date":"2026-08-14T04:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=43552"},"modified":"2026-08-14T04:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:30:02","slug":"ben-johnson-wants-bears-to-set-nfl-scoring-record-in-2026-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=43552","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson wants Bears to set NFL scoring record in 2026 | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By every metric, Ben Johnson&#8217;s first season as coach of the Chicago Bears was a great success.<\/p>\n<p>They won their division and <a node=\"[object Object]\" class=\"inline-block relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/packers-at-bears-2025-post-1?tab=recap\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">a playoff game<\/a>, buoyed by the thrilling emergence of <a node=\"[object Object]\" class=\"inline-block relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/caleb-williams\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Caleb Williams<\/a> as the face of the franchise\u2019s future. But that&#8217;s apparently not close to satisfactory for Johnson, who is setting his sights on the Lombardi Trophy and more entering 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that correctly. Johnson doesn&#8217;t just want to win a Super Bowl &#8212; he wants to rewrite the record books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got 31 other teams coming to training camp saying, \u2018Our goal is to win the Super Bowl,&#8217;\u201d Johnson <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" node=\"[object Object]\" class=\"inline-block relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7503680\/2026\/08\/12\/behind-the-scenes-for-a-day-with-bears-coach-ben-johnson\/?redirected=1\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">told The Athletic&#8217;s Dan Pompei<\/a>. \u201cI want more than that. I want to have the highest-scoring offense ever, which happens to be the 2013 Denver Broncos. I know how many points per game they scored (37.9), and I want to surpass them. I want shutouts. I want blowouts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is chasing the consecutive victories record (21) set by Bill Belichick&#8217;s first dynasty in New England, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy can\u2019t we do that?\u201d he said. \u201cThere has never been an undefeated season (since teams have been playing more than 14 regular-season games). The moon is the Super Bowl, but we\u2019re shooting beyond that, for the stars. And I want these players to feel that each and every single day they come in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By every metric, Ben Johnson&#8217;s first season as coach of the Chicago Bears was a great success. They won their division and a playoff game, buoyed by the thrilling emergence of Caleb Williams as the face of the franchise\u2019s future. But that&#8217;s apparently not close to satisfactory for Johnson, who is setting his sights on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.www.nfl.com\/image\/upload\/v1554321393\/league\/nvfr7ogywskqrfaiu38m.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}