Tipping points come unexpectedly. The overriding sense in the wake of the Bears’ 48-23 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, beyond specifics of the game, is that coach John Fox and staff will be riveted on what they see in their players after the kind of loss that produced unravelings last season that are a large part of why Fox and not Marc Trestman is head coach of the Chicago Bears.
The 2014 team crumbled in the wake of maulings like Sunday’s. Any repeat of anything smelling vaguely of that will be the end of someone’s time in Chicago, one coach told CSNChicago.