I for one found it impossible to watch the Bears' final exhibition game of the preseason in Cleveland without asking myself repeatedly why the Bears bothered to show up at all?
Each club gets four exhibitions, unless they are selected to play a fifth in the Hall of Fame game, to get ready for the regular season, so why do most clubs only use three, and if teams aren’t going to use the fourth, why play it at all?
I guess we get it when teams like the Patriots, Steelers, Panthers, Packers, Seahawks, Cardinals and maybe a few others who are legitimate Super Bowl contenders and well stocked with talent choose to protect their key players from injury.