Akiem Hicks and Khalil Mack are the Bears’ dynamic duo

When we think of great teammates in the NFL, we’re often drawn to the offensive side of the ball and to the great quarterback-receiver tandems that we’ve seen through the years; Joe Montana to Jerry Rice, Peyton Manning to Marvin Harrison, and Tom Brady to Rob Gronkowski, just to name a few.

But here in Chicago, we’ve never had any type of offensive euphoria that would lead to cheering for a dynamic duo like this, as our best tandems have all been on the defensive side of things. Gary Fencik and Doug Plank, Richard Dent and Dan Hampton, Lance Briggs and Brian Urlacher, and more recently, Akiem Hicks and Khalil Mack.

Hicks and Mack have only been teammates for two and a half years, but their…