That is about as close as these Bears ever will get to those Bears, and the degrees of separation widen with every celebratory Sunday. These Bears contain a unique quality that distinguishes them from every other home team that has played at Soldier Field over the last three decades. If Cutler’s era with the Bears from 2009 to 2015 goes down as underachieving, then Lovie Smith’s tenure that overlapped it from 2004 through 2012 qualifies as underwhelming. Cutler made every team he was on difficult to like and Smith, who kept everybody outside Halas Hall at arm’s length, relished being hard to hug. Coach Matt Nagy’s first Bears team is neither, basking in being the city’s most likable bunch since 1985 and laughing their way through a season more special than anybody but the most cockeyed optimist imagined.