Over the last few years I find I’ve developed a complicated relationship with the offseason. On one hand, offseasons are obviously bad because the Bears aren’t playing football anymore. On the other, the Bears have been so bad for so long that the offseason always meant “cutting all our bad players and signing new good ones”. Offseasons became a time for hope, a refuge from losing that allowed the Bears to win the Super Bowl in July without ever playing a game.
That is, until Pace blew everything up and made them good.
For the first time in a long time, the Bears have a team that’s worth keeping.