{"id":971496,"date":"2026-08-12T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/971496\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:54:30","slug":"ben-johnson-wants-bears-to-set-nfl-scoring-record-in-2026-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/971496\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson wants Bears to set NFL scoring record in 2026 | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">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 nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">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 nofollow\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By every metric, Ben Johnson&#8217;s first season as coach of the Chicago Bears was a great success. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,391,7,88,6,609,8896],"class_list":["post-971496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-chicago-bears","tag-football","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-training-camp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117084767099912281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}