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Iron sharpens iron, but it doesn’t sharpen paper.
That has been the unfortunate reality for the Bears’ offense in recent years, whether it be Khalil Mack & Co. dominating Mitch Trubisky or Eddie Jackson & Co. taking it to Justin Fields.
In both cases, the age-old training camp narrative that it was the defense making the offense look bad ended up being more like the opposite — the mediocre-at-best offense was making the defense look good. And it never ended well.