The Bears didn’t play a single starter during their 32-13 shellacking at the hands of the New York Giants in the second preseason game Friday night, announcing beforehand that 26 (!) players would rest.
Thus, we're not reading too much into a grisly showing in which the Bears were out-gained 411 to 165 yards, lost the time of possession battle by nearly 10 minutes and were flagged eight times. But we still came away with a number of observations regarding the backups, so here are three positives and three negatives as the preseason mercifully reaches the halfway point.