A Scout’s Take: Waiting for the final Bears’ preseason game

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesAnd just like that, training camp is over. On Saturday, August 27, the Chicago Bears play their final tune-up game in Cleveland against the Browns. Then just like last year, when the League went to a 17-game season, there will be two weeks between the final preseason game and the opening game.

Because of this fairly new two-week gap between the end of the preseason and the start of the regular season, I feel that it will change how starters are used in this third and final exhibition.

Back when clubs played four preseason games, most teams never played their starters in that fourth game. The starters would get the majority of their playtime in that third…