After a week’s hiatus for the holidays, the Reacts results have returned, and Chicago Bears fans are still overwhelmingly confident the franchise is headed in the right direction. Following the December 20 win over the Green Bay Packers, our results hit a season high 98%, and last week’s loss in San Francisco barely dented our faith, as it fell to just 97%.
When the Bears were (0-2), our fans’ confidence in the franchise was a season low 23%, but it has been over 92% each week since the Bears beat
the Cincinnati Bengals.
Here’s how our confidence results were each week since Week 9.
92% after Bengals win
97% after Giants win
97% after Vikings win
99% after Steelers win
97% after Eagles win
96% after Packers loss
97% after Browns win
98% after Packers win
97% after 49ers loss
We believe in our NFC North Champion Chicago Bears, head coach Ben Johnson, quarterback Caleb Williams, and I know some of you are fighting it, but there’s even some belief in general manager Ryan Poles.
You have to admit that Poles had more hits than misses this offseason. He’s also likely to receive some votes for the 2025 Sporting News Executive of the Year Award. If he can keep getting the types of players that Johnson and his coaching staff can work with, Poles is going to be at Halas Hall for a long time.
The other sites around SB Nation have their own version of the Reacts confidence survey, so a quick check around the results for the other NFC North teams has Green Bay fans at 21% confident in the direction of their franchise, Detroit fans at 28%, and Minnesota fans at 59%, with only 21% of Vikings fans hoping for a loss to improve their draft position.
There are also emailed surveys to go to fans of all 32 teams, and this week’s set asked fans to vote on how they see each Conference shaking out in Week 18.
Fans think the Bears are going to beat the Detroit Lions on Sunday and clinch the second seed.
You can sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed Reacts surveys.
