1st-and-10: Bears, George McCaskey stuck in the middle

The Bears are 42-54 (.438) in six seasons with Ryan Pace (foreground) as general manager, though 28-20 with two playoff appearances in the last three seasons. After back-to-back 8-8 seasons, Bears chairman George McCaskey (background) will decide if Pace will remain as GM.When Bears president Ted Phillips was asked about his patience after the Bears finished 8-8 last season, it didn’t sound like he had that much of it — for a Bears executive, anyway. It almost sounded like he was drawing a line in the sand.

“I think we should be able to turn it around next year,” Phillips said two days after the regular season concluded. “We were 12-4 just a year ago. We had the coach of the year, the…