Taking a full account of a team’s worth after one week will almost always prove to be a foolish exercise. There’s too much of a four-month season remaining to come to any definitive conclusions. But it’s difficult not to see what the Bears are incidentally attempting to emulate after their listless 10-3 defeat to the Packers last week. The picture only gets less hazy from here.
In the first installment of Football Outsiders’ DVOA ratings for the 2019 season, the Bears’ defense predictably graded out well. Defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano’s newfangled unit sits at No.