The start of the season is still more than six weeks away, but Bears coach Matt Eberflus is already pushing hard. After the first practice of training camp, he was eager to see his staff’s evaluation of every aspect of every snap of the 80-minute session.
That’s basically the pace and intensity he intends to maintain for the next six months — with some consideration given to his more high-mileage veterans.
“We’ve gotta be a hard team,” he said Wednesday. “We can’t live soft and play hard. You just can’t do it. That’s not the way football is.