3 tipping points as Bears begin 2nd “half” of 2018

3 tipping points as Bears begin 2nd “half” of 2018

The math of a 16-game NFL seasons lends itself to thinking of two, eight-game halves to the football year. But the reality is that the off-week represents a dividing line in a season simply because it is a “reset point” in terms of player health, self-scouting and other internal operations and perspectives.

So it is, as the Bears come out of their earliest off-week since the same fifth week in 2009 and begin the second “half” of their season, under a rookie head coach in Matt Nagy who apprenticed under one the NFL’s best (Andy Reid) coming out of an off week (16-3). Nagy was Reid’s quarterbacks coach in 2016 when his Kansas City Chiefs had…