In an office at Halas Hall last week, Josh Sitton reclined in a leather sofa and propped up his flip flops on a coffee table. Raising a water bottle to his chin, Sitton squirted a stream of tobacco from his lower lip and looked toward the ceiling.
In a rare moment of down time, he had been asked to consider the oddest, most chaotic nine days of his football career, a jolt that took him from an abrupt exit from Green Bay to an unlikely union with the Bears in Lake Forest, Ill., to a taxing season-opening loss in Houston.
Sitton simply laughed, still dizzy enough that he couldn't quite describe the commotion.
"Hell yeah, it has been wild," the left guard said. "This has definitely been a whirlwind. Obviously, you see this happen in this business all the time. But it had never happened to me. Until now."
Still, it was now Week 2, which also meant it was Sitton's second week assimilating into the Bears' organization. So slowly but surely things were starting to become more routine. He's getting a feel for the schedule, the expectations, the coaching staff. And he has become increasingly familiar with the playbook and the faces in the locker room.
"It feels more normal coming to work now," Sitton said. "Which is nice. I'm not going to lie to you, those first couple of days all I was doing was following people around trying to figure everything out."
As expected, Sitton lived to tell about the offensive line's struggles against the Texans and the demanding preparation leading up to that game.
So there's only one thing for him to do now. Look forward. To the next weeks in Chicago. To what he envisions will be a fruitful stay with the Bears as long as they will have him around.
"I came here because I think we can get to a point that we can win a championship," Sitton said.
Still, how did life change so significantly? And so quickly?
