BOURBONNAIS, Ill. – Normally it takes a week or more and players wearing pads through full-contact practices in August heat for tempers to boil over. Not so the Bears.
Day 2 of training camp, the day before pads coming on, was marked by a couple of scrums of increasing hostility involving linemen, an indication perhaps of the intensity level likely to be on display when coach John Fox pushes the pedal down even further with pads.
First it was right guard Kyle Long sending linebacker Pernell McPhee flying with a block after McPhee had beaten right tackle Jordan Mills.