... old football adage bears repeating, even if the Bears do a good enough job of repeating it often themselves.

It all starts up front.

With the regular season starting Sunday against Detroit, the entire Bears season rides on this trite old cliche.

From the start of May minicamp through June organized team activities, to Bourbonnais training camp, and through four miserable preseason games, this has been obvious and unchanging.

On defense, the Bears have shown very little improvement in their pass coverage over last year’s 13 interceptions (22nd in the NFL) and 41 percent third-down conversion rate allowed (27th in the NFL).

In fact, they’ve given up first downs on 46 pe...

Read Complete Article at Bleacher Report - NFL