LONDON — Chase Daniel had finished his second glass of tart cherry juice — the Bears gave it to their players because the melatonin makes them sleepy — when he reclined inside a sleeping pod on the Bears’ plane Thursday night.
He wondered: Were he the backup quarterback against the Raiders on Sunday, would he still have been given one of the few pods on the plane?
“Because I’m the oldest person on the team . . . probably?” he said Friday after the Bears’ practice at Allianz Park. “But that was definitely talked about by myself.