One critical moment deflated the Bears in Week 2 and forging a mentally tough locker room remains a major challenge for Ben Johnson

The Bears felt like TeSlaa was tackled inbounds with the clock expiring and went off to the locker room. After stopping for a review, TeSlaa was correctly ruled inbounds, but because of the review, the Lions got one more play instead of the clock running off after the play.

"[Referee Land Clark] came up to me at the end of third quarter that they ruled it out of bounds, reviewed it that it was in bounds, and it was a 10-second runoff," Johnson explained. "We’ll see what it looks like on the game tape. That certainly was not communicated to us."

Lions' head coach Dan Campbell called it a "fortunate opportunity" that Detroit certainly took advantage of. After getting the Bears' defense back on the field, Goff connected with wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown for a touchdown that gave Detroit a 28-14 lead at halftime.

It was a demoralizing play that the Bears were unable to brush off and move on from. After coming back out for the second-half, it became a "throwing game" as Johnson described in which Chicago allowed 24 more points and scored only once in garbage time.

Yeah it's only one sequence of plays in a multitude of bad plays, but it's clear that's the moment the Bears seemingly gave up on this game. It's not something you see good teams do and preventing that from happening again is something Johnson needs to figure out how to get across to his players. And he's got the right mindset based on what he said after the game.

"The biggest thing is we're not going to hang out heads and get down on this," Johnson added. "It's one game. We're going to be just fine. We'll take our corrections, coaching staff, players, we're going to learn from it."

This just needs to be the message to the players right after those moments, not after it avalanches down and results in another devastating defeat. And it's not something that be engrained into the players within one week, it'll take time.