Jay Cutler: With John Fox, Bears 'like coming to work now'

If there was an underlying irony to the Marc Trestman era, it was that some of the efforts that were aimed at building bridges between players had almost the exact opposite effect. Mixing up locker assignments away from position groups, rotating captains assigned by coaches, even the demeanor with which Trestman approached the team failed to take root and some said even turned players off.

If there has been an underlying strength to the early going of John Fox, it has been a near-opposite feel around the building. Where players privately confided that they grew to dread coming to Halas Hall (losing can do that for any team), now it has become quickly apparent that the exact opposite is the…