Winners and losers from the Chicago Bears’ Week 15 win, including Chris Myers’ potential Marquee Sports Network audition and a Jeannie Morris tribute

Contrary to what you may have thought, that was not some high-tech device teaching itself to analyze pro football for Fox during the Chicago Bears’ 33-27 road victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.

It was Greg Jennings, but your confusion is understandable.

Working alongside play-by-play announcer Chris Myers, Jennings sounded at times like a computerized translation program run amok rather than a former NFL receiver.

But it was in fact Jennings saying that it’s important to “understand that you have a quarterback who can run with his legs.” (Yes, run with his legs.)

It was Jennings who said, “Third down is where this Chicago Bears team has struggled and they have to be better,” as if fans would have no idea how important third-down situations are.

And when Myers said first-year Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson wasn’t playing like a rookie, it was Jennings who added, “When you’re in Week 15 and you’re playing like he’s been playing, he’s not even thinking rookie in his own mentality space.”

You know, “mentality space” — a common term humans use everyday.

Where Jennings got really weird was when he delighted in wordplay involving Vikings running back Dalvin Cook.

“It’s all about Dalvin Cook,” Jennings said. “He sets the tone, and he has to be in the kitchen, cooking up what he will provide as the menu today for this Vikings offense. When he does that, everyone eats well.”

Jennings is hardly the first person to realize that Cook is a noun and a verb in addition to a surname. But he might be the first to utter the phrase, “cooking up what he will provide as the menu today.”

The same goes for “take the cook off the kitchen,” as in: “The Bears can’t fall asleep. You know the key to your success this afternoon is to stop Dalvin Cook. You got to take the cook off the kitchen. If he gets in the kitchen, he sets the table.”

Give Jennings credit on that one for originality. Meal preparation is the go-to metaphor most would associate with a cook. Arranging plates, flatware, napkins and glasses is not.

While we contemplate that food for thought in our mentality space, let’s take stock of other winners and losers we saw Sunday.

Winner: Chris Myers

Sure, Chris Myers seemed to think it was necessary to note Kirk Cousins had the arm for a potential late touchdown pass from 34 yards out, as if there were an NFL quarterback who didn’t. And by pretending to be amused the first time Greg Jennings made a Cook joke, he ensured we got more groaners.

Myers also hesitated to confirm the outcomes of plays we could see for ourselves.

But next to Jennings, Myers was bound to sound OK. Not great, mind you, but he wasn’t the biggest problem with the Bears-Vikings telecast.

Loser: Humor with no kick

Myers tried to tie the lead character in a certain holiday film favorite to Vikings kicker Dan Bailey’s redemption after a poor performance last week.

“For Bailey, it’s a wonderful life,” Myers said, which, again, was better than Jennings’ Cook bits but hardly a bell-ringer.

Winner: Marquee Sports Network

Marquee Sports Network and the Cubs should know by now how Chris Myers would be received as the ballclub’s lead TV play-by-play announcer, succeeding Len Kasper.

If they’re uncertain, however, they can do a quick search on social media for how Chicagoans felt about his performance Sunday. It appears the initial backlash following media reports about his candidacy was not a fluke.

Loser: Cody Parkey

While Bears kicker Cairo Santos extended his successful field goal streak to 22 by going four-for-four vs. the Vikings, former Bear Cody Parkey burnished his reputation as King of the Doinks once more on national television.

“Cody Parkey doinked again,” said NBC’s Mike Tirico after Parkey found the upright on an errant extra-point attempt for the Browns in the second quarter against the Giants on “Sunday Night Football.”

We’ll set aside the early Bears field goal where the camera seemed indifferent to the path of the ball, leaving us to have to take Myers’ word that the kick was good.

Winner: Jeannie Morris

It was a classy move for Fox to acknowledge the death pioneering TV sports reporter and author Jeannie Morris at age 85.

An even better tribute came via Willie Geist on NBC’s “Sunday Today.” The look back at Morris’ life and career included many brief clips. Among them was a bit of her 1975 Super Bowl reporting for that network, the first time a woman had been part of the event’s live coverage.

Loser: Sequins and other gaudy fashion

Not sure the holiday fashion show from the guys on NBC Sports Chicago’s Bears postgame program was more of a distraction than an attraction. David Kaplan is lucky his sweater with the blinking lights didn’t short out.

Winner: Jefferson’s declaration

Vikings WR Justin Jefferson gave QB Cousins — and viewers — an earful on a pass in the end zone he couldn’t reach on second-and-goal from the Bears’ 6 late in the second quarter. The throw was high, but Jefferson’s complaint was that Cousins didn’t put the ball in the air sooner.

“(Bleep), Kirk!” Jefferson said, clear as a bell without a bleep to mask it. “Come on, throw the ball!”

Lip readers may have noticed Dalvin Cook questioning a late fourth-down Vikings call with similarly blunt language. But that went unheard.

Loser: ‘Bears Post Game Live’

Bears fans who hung on through Fox’s long, unrushed national postgame show to get to the team’s official “Bears Post Game Live” on Fox-32 must have been a bit disappointed.

Rather than getting an excerpt of coach Matt Nagy’s postgame Zoom, the first interview viewers were shown was an excerpt from the same Jen Hale interview of David Montgomery the network had just shown.

For future reference, know you can stream the postgame news conferences live directly via the @ChicagoBears’ Twitter feed.

Winner: CBS

CBS picks up another Bears game — next Sunday at Jacksonville — just as Mitch Trubisky and company are interesting again. As Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio put it on NBC: “The Bears were done, and now the Bears aren’t done.”