New Bears coach Matt Eberflus’ so-called “HITS” system emphasizes hustle, intensity, takeaways and smart football. Players are graded in those categories and others every day, practice by practice, and if all the attention to detail challenges them so much that it sometimes runs them ragged? Oh, well. In fact, it’s kind of the whole idea.
“It’s going to be the hardest thing you’ve ever done,” Eberflus assures them.
But will it really be harder than trying to follow along with whatever it was former coach Matt Nagy was doing? We don’t know about that.
Nagy, now the quarterbacks coach with the Chiefs — whom the Bears host Saturday (noon, Fox-32) in the preseason opener for both teams — had plenty of his own “HITS” during an often tumultuous four-year term in Chicago.