The first round of the 2017 NFL draft showed that many teams are obsessed with finding the next big thing right awayThe future face of the Chicago Bears strutted into a giant tent behind the NFL draft stage on Thursday night. Mitchell Trubisky, with all of one college season as a starter, wore a gray three-piece suit, a Bears cap and a smile. Inside the tent was a row of radio and television interviewers. All had the same question: Was he surprised? Related: 'Fine me later': Takkarist McKinley wins hearts with draft speech to late grandma Continue reading...
This season will be the ninth of the last 10 in which the Bears have missed the playoffs. And yet there seems little urgency to correct mattersSay this for the Chicago Bears: they lose with a consistent style seen nowhere else in the NFL. While the Cleveland Browns, the league’s standard bearer for failure, seemingly jump from quarterback to quarterback every week and get a new head coach most every season, the Bears fail with a clear plan in place. Never reactionary or quick to pull the trigger on a franchise-altering move, they simply plod ever forward. A steam ship churning towards a horizon that never has a sunrise. In the 24 years since Mike Ditka moved on from Chicago, the...