Sometimes you just gotta enjoy the spirit of youth.
The Bears kept just five hand-on-the-ground defensive linemen on their current roster. One (Eddie Goldman) is a rookie, two (Ego Ferguson, Will Sutton) are second-year players and a fourth (Cornelius Washington) has played a total of 15 NFL games, mostly on special teams, over his first two seasons. If Jeremiah Ratliff were on the roster instead of suspended, he would have played twice as many NFL seasons (10) as the kids have games.
No matter. Intimidated by Aaron Rodgers? Mmm, not really.
“I’m just ready to get out there Sunday and show the world,” said Ferguson, then corrected himself: “Shock the world.