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    Chicago Bears have vowed to build a championship mindset this season: ‘It’s expecting to win rather than just hoping’

    by Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune Sep 04, 2023 6 minutes
    Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields scrambles out of the pocket in the first quarter of a preseason game against the Buffalo Bills on Aug. 26, 2023, at Soldier Field in Chicago.

    CHICAGO — Over his first three NFL seasons, Chicago Bears tight end Cole Kmet became a master in treading water, learning how to paddle, thrash and kick to stay afloat when the seas got rough. As a rookie in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kmet watched his team’s 5-1 start become an 8-8 wheeze followed by a lopsided playoff loss in New Orleans.

    The following year Kmet lived through a 38-day losing streak during the Bears’ 6-11 free-fall. That triggered a new round of firings and overhaul inside Halas Hall.

    Then last season his favorite boyhood team made history as the Bears lost more games than they had in any of their previous 102, including a record-setting 10-game skid to end the year.

    So yes, Kmet knows it’s time for the Bears to make a significant breakthrough in 2023. Long overdue, actually.

    “Last year, we were in a lot of close games and, in my opinion, in a lot

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