The only thing we want to know is simple. Are the Bears better now than they were when they staggered out of last season? Who knows?
With the opening of Bears' training camp everything is possible. Reality arrives soon enough. Misery comes later, as early as October, as late as December, probably earlier, November being to the Bears lately much as a pit bull is to a postman.
For the Bears it is, as usual, a mixture of wishing and wanting. Trying to put together a respectable NFL team this Bears training camp will be like trying to rearrange a junkyard full of used tires. What is known is that Fields can run the ball like a kick returner and throw the ball like a … well, like a kick returner. Fields has promised that he will be the first Bears quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards, not including interception returns.But never far from any result, good or bad, will be the lingering concern of what if, another unknown. What if, as so far indicated, Fields is a one trick pony, a very good trick, an all-time trick, but one tackle away from having no tricks at all.
Fields is one of those known unknowns, as is his foremost pass catcher, D.J. Moore, who was a known known elsewhere, somewhere in the Carolinas, the Bears of the South The schedule is known because it is printed up and handed out. What is not known is how many wins are on it and how many losses. Know this. The only sure thing is Denver in Week 4, maybe Arizona in Week 16.
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