A Bears team that less than a year ago looked primed to make the jump from good to great now wobbles between contending and imploding.
A resurgent season could save a lot of jobs and keep their core together, but if they fall flat in 2020 — as they did last season — the whole blueprint is up for a redesign.
It wasn’t just that the Bears went 8-8, which was viewed as disastrous only because of the sky-high expectations, but it was alarming because they sat near the bottom of the NFL in offense and got walloped by every good team they faced but the Vikings.