Being the next football czar at Halas Hall has its charms. In the coming days, whoever elects to be the next architect of the Bears not only gets to build around Justin Fields (eliminating the most challenging part of an executive’s job — finding a quarterback), but they get to be the one to take a swing at making the Bears, of all teams, a bona fide force again.
And whether (justified) cynicism has worn us all down or not when it comes to the Bears and the abyss they seem to always plunge themselves into, those marks matter.