The plan to fix the Bears looks simple enough. All they needed to do was spend the first year clearing out bad contracts and setting themselves up to treat this year like a buffet between the draft and free agency.
But that’s not how it works in the NFL. Everything is competitive. General manager Ryan Poles’ rebuild strategy could be airtight — that’s unclear at the moment — but even then, the rest of the league isn’t going to merely step aside and let him enact it.
