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Ancient Bears’ Drafts Still Haunt the Team

I still like Caleb Williams as a prospect, but the Chicago Bears just…let’s back up for a second.

If the Bears seem cursed, there’s a good reason for that. The Bears have been run by either George Halas or his daughter, Virginia McCaskey as principal owners for over a century now, and so much of what keeps the modern Bears down is set at a macro level from on-high that it’s often difficult to make the small changes necessary to succeed. And these things, they compound over time. Always.

Take, for example, the Bears’ traditional identity as “The Monsters of the Midway.