The Bears finished the 2022 NFL regular season as the official worst team in professional football.
After starting 2-1, Chicago went 1-13 down the stretch, eventually losing an astonishing 10 straight games to close the season. Under normal circumstances, even if they just had a top draft pick after an incredible “Mini Mary”, the Bears would be your run-of-the-mill awful squad trying and failing to pick up the pieces in the offseason.
But this is no normal offseason for the Bears, nor do they seem like your average hopeless bottom-feeder. After finishing off the perfect tank job to set up a monumental spring, Chicago is in an ideal position to catapult itself into long-term relevance and glory over the next few months. What’s more, is they can act as a seamless facilitator to anyone else who wants to build something special down the line.
Here are three reasons why the Bears are the most interesting (and perhaps most important?) team of the 2023 NFL offseason.