CHICAGO – Thomas Brown met with the Chicago Bears on Thursday morning and made a request of his players.

“I asked that all three phases play their best together at one time,” Brown said in a press conference. “I thought special teams played extremely well. I thought defense played their butts off the entire night.

“The offense was not good enough, which it starts with me as far as the game plan that I had coming into this game, having those guys ready to go. We had plenty of opportunities to win it.”

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That’s how you end up losing a game 6-3 as the Bears did Thursday night against the Seattle Seahawks at Soldier Field. The defense didn’t allow a touchdown. The punting game was excellent and returns were productive.

The offense was a disaster yet again, mustering just three points all game long.

If there was ever a time to point fingers, this was it. The Bears didn’t do that after their 10^th-striaght loss.

“At the end of the game, there’s a lot of emotions and things like that,” linebacker T.J. Edwards said. “There’s a lot going on. We all want to win, and we really had faith that we were going to make a big-time play, that Caleb was going to make a throw, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. That’s why it’s the ultimate team sport.”

The fans had clearly seen enough. They booed the on-field product. They chanted “sell the team,” over and again in a clear message of dissatisfaction with Bears ownership at the season’s final home game of the year.

“It’s tough to go out like that to end the year at Soldier,” tight end Cole Kmet said. “It’s been a long year. It’s been a long, tough year. Tough to see it end like this for being at Soldier. Just tough overall. Definitely not the season that we envisioned coming in here.”

Falling so far below expectation has made this season harder on all involved, because there’s no shaking that feeling of failure. It’s everywhere after so many losses and final-season stretch where the Bears simply look like a bad football team.

“How many games have we lost, now? 10?” safety Kevin Byard III said. “It’s frustrating for sure. I’ve never lost this much in my life. Period.”

All that losing has worn on the group to the point it’s impacting results, but the group refuses to concede. They’ve got one game left, and will try to end with a win that has been elusive for months.

“We’re a family. We’re going to continue to fight and be resilient,” Byard said. “You obviously want better results, but I don’t ride the wave. You’re very frustrated as a unit and a group, but I can hang my hat on the work we put in.”