The Latest Breaking News from Matt Nagy

This season will offer only partial answers since GM Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus don’t have much to work with.

First-down yardage ... third-and-short conversions ... a screen game ... scoring in the third quarter ... though Justin Fields is a potential franchise quarterback, simple things will be key to Luke Getsy & Co. breaking a 30-year drought of sustained success for the Bears’ offense.

Staley is a good bet, but there might be an even better one in his own division.

CHICAGO — By the end of November, just about everything surrounding the Chicago Bears football team was undeniably ablaze. That extended window the Bears thought they had to compete for a Super Bowl crown? Incinerated.

The much-criticized team official will retire in February.

With Week 1 arriving and the Chicago Bears promenading around the track on their way to the NFL starting gate, rookie general manager Ryan Poles certainly has great conviction in one thing: He hired the right coach. Especially for this team in this moment.

When Mitch Trubisky takes the field Sept. 11, it will have been 609 days since his last start, a Bears playoff loss in New Orleans. A lot has changed since.

It was only a preseason game, but Justin Fields & Co. might not be as horrible as Mike Martz says.

Fields had good results against the Browns on Saturday, but the aesthetics are more telling that the statistics.