A week that began with Matt Nagy fighting off rumors of his firing ended with an ugly, unconvincing win.<\/b>
\nAnyone who hoped the Bears\u2019 week of dysfunction and chaos would calm down once they finally made it to Ford Field to face the Lions was expecting too much. That probably included beleaguered coach Matt Nagy, though at least he got a break from the very busy work of shooting down reports that he\u2019s on the cusp of getting canned. He was probably blissfully unaware that the Bears\u2019 bumbling continued into the coin flip Thursday, when veteran linebacker Christian Jones clearly wasn\u2019t paying attention. \u201cDetroit has won and elected to defer,\u201d referee Adrian Hill announced. \u201cChicago, you want the ball? You want the ball?\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d Jones said as he laughed. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna defer.\u201d \u201cThey deferred,\u201d Hill persisted. \u201cYou want the ball. You want the ball.\u201d This provided the audience a welcome moment of entertainment \u2014 \u201cThat is an all-timer,\u201d commentator Troy Aikman said \u2014 in an otherwise uneventful and inconsequential game that the Bears won 16-14 on Cairo Santos\u2019 28-yard field goal as time expired to snap their five-game losing streak. Nagy avoided inflaming his already heated situation, but that\u2019s all the victory over flailing, winless opponent actually accomplished. The Bears are still sunk at 4-7, sitting 13th out of 16 in the NFC, and still don\u2019t have an offense that anyone takes seriously. Mustering 16 points against a Lions defense that was giving up 27.3 per game is disheartening. The Bears also treaded water at quarterback, where Andy Dalton\u2019s start has no impact whatsoever on their future while prized rookie Justin Fields sat out with a rib injury. And in the end, they needed a field goal on the final snap to escape against a team that couldn\u2019t do anything right. The Lions had a player crash into a teammate while he was trying to field a punt, had too many players on the field for an extra point and were flagged for calling a timeout coming out of a timeout because they were in such disarray in a critical situation on the Bears\u2019 final drive.<\/p>\n