George McCaskey compares 2025 Bears to legendary Super Bowl winners

The 1985 Chicago Bears are still seen by many as arguably the greatest team of the NFL's Super Bowl era, as the side with a dominant defense went 15-1 in regular-season play and then notched a 46-10 win over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX. 

Meanwhile, the 2025 Bears tallied seven comeback victories after trailing in the fourth quarter of games from Week 1 through the wild-card round of the playoffs. While Chicago fell to the Los Angeles Rams in the divisional round of the postseason tournament this past January, Bears chairman George McCaskey will seemingly always reflect fondly on what the club accomplished last season. 

2025 Bears gave fans a "miraculous, improbable" run

"In '85 we were rolling over people," McCaskey recently said about the Bears, per Courtney Cronin of ESPN. "It was just an absolutely dominant team, and [last] year it was living on the edge, strengthening business for cardiologists all over Chicagoland, this miraculous, improbable, unbelievable season, just when you think it can't get more improbable, it does."

While Bears fans are hyped about what the team could achieve from September through this coming winter, it's not a stretch to say few expect Chicago to roll over opponents as did the '85 Bears. As of Thursday morning, DraftKings Sportsbook had the Bears at +305 odds to claim the NFC North division title for the upcoming season. The Detroit Lions topped the list at +180 odds, followed by the Green Bay Packers at +215 odds. 

Caleb Williams has a little Ben Johnson in him

In January 2025, the Bears hired former Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson to serve as their head coach. The combination of Johnson and quarterback Caleb Williams, the first overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft, has largely been credited for the fact that the Bears were a win away from playing in last season's NFC Championship Game. 

Williams recently insisted that he has "love" for haters who throw "a little bit of gas on the fire." McCaskey suggested that Johnson may want to further spark that type of fire in the team's QB1. 

"I think any team takes on the personality of its head coach," McCaskey added, "and what you saw last year was a group of guys that fight like hell for each other, that never give up, that never considered themselves out of it, that by all appearances have ultimate faith in their head coach that he's going to give them some way to pull it out."

One wonders if Johnson will use certain betting odds as bulletin-board material when players report for training camp in late July.