Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson didn’t back down from the storied rivalry with the Green Bay Packers as he faced a question about his explicit remarks about the NFC North team.

Johnson dropped multiple F-bombs as he celebrated with the Bears following the team’s comeback playoff win. On Monday, Johnson defended the comments and said he even talked with team owner George McCaskey about it.

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"There’s a rivalry that exists between these two teams," Johnson said. "Something that I fully recognize and I’m a part of. I just don’t like that team.

"George and I have talked and we’re on the same page."

Chicago won the game, 31-27, after being down by 18 points in the first half. The Bears’ social media account posted a video of Johnson hyping up the team.

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He was heard saying, "F--- the Packers! F--- them! F---ing hate those guys."

The rivalry between the Bears and Packers is certainly revved up. Johnson threw gasoline on the fire when he first joined the Bears. He was asked at the time why he chose Chicago. He said he "kinda enjoyed beating Matt LaFleur twice a year."

The message sparked a few icy handshakes during the season, including one after the playoff game. Chicago went 1-1 against Green Bay in the regular season and defeated them when it counted the most.

The first-year head coach praised his players for their gritty performance, coming off two losses and going into halftime down 21-3. Johnson said his team was "built for pressure."

Johnson will lead the Bears into the NFC Divisional Round against the Los Angeles Rams.

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With the midterm elections fast approaching, progressive champion Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has a warning for Democrats to stop catering to the wealthy elites if they want to recapture majorities in the House and Senate this year.

"A Democratic Party that worries more about offending big donors than delivering for working people is a party doomed to fail in 2026, 2028, and beyond," Warren, the three-term senator from Massachusetts who ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, emphasized in a speech Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

The address by Warren, who to a degree stayed out of the national conversation during President Donald Trump's first year back in the White House, seemed to be her attempt to shape the Democratic Party's approach to the 2026 midterms in her populist image.

The speech was part post-mortem of the 2024 elections, when Trump and Republicans enjoyed sweeping victories as they won back the White House and Senate and held onto their fragile House majority.

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Pointing to the wealthy elites and major Democratic Party donors, Warren argued that "these movers and shakers want the Democratic Party to respond to the 2024 losses by watering down our economic agenda and sucking up to the rich and powerful, claiming that less progressive Democratic Party will win more elections. They are wrong."

Democrats scored decisive victories and overperformances in the 2025 elections and in a slew of special elections and other ballot box showdowns last year, which were fueled by their laser focus on affordability amid persistent inflation.

"Americans are stretched to the breaking point financially, and they will vote for candidates who name what is wrong and who credibly demonstrate that they will take on a rigged system to fix it," Warren emphasized.

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And she charged that "revising our economic agenda to tiptoe around that conclusion might appeal to the wealthy, but it will not help Democrats build a bigger tent. And it definitely will not help Democrats win elections."

"Democrats need to read the room. Any room not stuffed with billionaires is a room that will tell you it is critically important to lower those costs," Warren reiterated, as she took questions from reporters following her speech.

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Warren, a vocal critic of the president, also argued that "Donald Trump has not delivered" when it comes to lower costs. "People have made it clear that this is what matters to them and Donald Trump has not delivered. Our job is to both hold him accountable and to put out our own proposals in order to lower those costs. We do that, we will win."

The senator's speech comes amid a fierce policy debate among Democrats over whether to embrace an economic populist message promoted by Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, or to support a more moderate, business friendly agenda, in order to court moderate voters souring on Trump and the GOP.

Warren's address is also her latest move to play an influential role in the 2026 elections.

The senator, who's a member of the informal Senate "Fight Club," a small group of left-leaning senators who are challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's approach to the midterm elections, last week announced she had donated $400,000 to a slew of state Democratic parties.