Overview
- At the NFL’s Annual League Meeting, McCaskey told the team’s site that last season was “great, miraculous, surreal,” then said the Bears “haven’t achieved our goal” of winning the Super Bowl.
- McCaskey stressed that complacency “is not going to be an issue,” echoing head coach Ben Johnson’s message to the locker room.
- He praised Johnson as intense, intelligent, innovative, and passionate, saying the coach has players believing in him and in themselves.
- In Johnson’s first year, Chicago rebounded from 0-2 to finish 11-6, won the NFC North for the first time since 2018, and earned its first playoff win since 2010 before falling to the Rams in the Divisional Round.
- NFL.com reported McCaskey aggressively pursued Johnson last year, underscoring ownership’s buy-in as the team now faces an offseason aimed at producing a bigger Step 2 in 2026.