4 wins in 4 weeks in week 11

After watching tape of Sunday's 19-17 win over the Vikings, Bears coach Ben Johnson spoke to reporters verbatim Monday about his confidence in the run on the final drive, with the defense generating two more interceptions and more.

After watching tape of Sunday's 19-17 comeback win over the Vikings, Bears coach Ben Johnson spoke to reporters almost Monday about four things that stood out to him about the game:

(1) Johnson was happy to keep the ball on the ground and set up Cairo Santos' winning 48-yard field goal as time expired.

Trailing 17–16, Devin DuVernay's season-long 56-yard kickoff return gave the Bears the ball at the Minnesota 40 with :42 to play.With all three timeouts remaining, Johnson called three consecutive runs.De'Andre Swift gained four yards, lost two and then ran for seven at the Vikings' 31.

Julun said "With Cairo, we looked at every five yards there, and we're going to have a big beer if we're a percentage of every five yards." But we think we can make it closer.

Johnson's belief in the first line was key to his decision to hit three straight in the game.

"I have a lot of confidence in these guys," he said.“In the second half, we created some running routes and our backs took advantage of that, so we felt comfortable running the ball in those situations.”

(2) Johnson complimented the defense by generating two more takeaways with two interceptions, increasing his league-leading season totals to 22 and 15, respectively.

Safety Kevin Byard III and cornerback Nahshon Wright held the ball in quick succession for McCarthy late in the first half on J.J. Byard's interception set up a Santos field goal and Wright's found its way into the end zone for a 10-3 lead at the time.

Byard leads the league with five inches.Container, Bears lolayacker Tremmae Edmunds and Jagua Shallitacker Devin Lloyd land in second place with four apiece.The Bears are the NFL team that has three players with at least four interactions in 10 games since the start of the season since the 2011 dismissal.

"It's a credit to these players to get the ball in their hands," Johnson said."It's not a given in this contract. You can think that, but the defensive players, I've been around others where they do a good job of breaking, but they can't save.

"The player and his entire career.

Johnson also credits the rush to helping make takeaways.

"I don't know if KB would consider Grady Jarrett an interception if it wasn't in the hands of the quarterback," Johnson said."You always have to think about these situations. I know these guys don't get bags of these numbers when things like this happen."

(3) Johnson was as happy the Bears didn't commit a turnover as he was about the two defensive touchdowns.

This allowed the Bears to improve their turnover margin to a league-best plus-16.No other team had a better difference of plus 10.

Williams did not throw an interception for the third straight game, sixth time this season and 19th since joining the Bears last year, second in that span behind the Eagles' Jalen Harts (20).

"The best thing he does is keep the ball out of harm's way," Johnson said."He did a great job protecting that football. I can't say enough good things about their defense in terms of how they create turnovers. All these forced fumbles, that's by design. It's very intentional on their part. I thought our whole team did a great job of taking care of that football. And then when things looked good, Caleb did an especially good job.

Williams completed 16 of 32 passes for 193 yards and a 68.9 rating and rushed for 26 yards on four carries.He bounced back after throwing third-down passes to receivers Roma Odunze and D.J.Moore on the Bears' first two possessions.

"We had really some opportunities to make some big plays down the field," said Johnson."We didn't take advantage of them. That's a couple you want to get back. But overall, I thought he played a very good football match."

(4) Johnson thinks tight end Cole Kemet had one of his best performances of the season.

The six-year pro caught a season-high five passes for 45 yards.

"He did a good job," Johnson said."We came into this game, but when you look at the stat sheet, we didn't have as high of an effective completion percentage as we wanted to. There were a number of reasons for that, but I think [Williams] going to Cole quickly was what we wanted to see in this game. That was by design."

Johnson was impressed on one play where he saw Williams covering a deep route, "quick enough to throw him a nice running ball down the sideline ... and he turned it into a 6-7-yard gain."

"Some rushing plays, too," Johnson added."They get that corner pressure, so they leave the flat and he quickly recognizes it and gets the ball out and lets Cole run with it. I thought Cole had one of the best games he's had this year."

KMET is also good at blocking and activating attacks.

"I caught a few more balls, but I'm not even talking about that," Johnson said.

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