Last season the Bears were undone by a tsunami of factors but one of which was the health of key players. Injuries are an unavoidable part of contact sports but can the team get healthier?
I came across an article last week that was actually first published in March of this year. How it slipped past me I don't know but it was full of interesting information i thought was worth digging into.
Football Outsiders has an Adjusted Games Lost metric which can determine how teams were affected by injuries. They do this by accounting for players on the injury report who played and give more weight to starters and key contributors than to injured benchwarmers.