Bears trying to avoid perpetual rebuilding phase where Lions live

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Fields completed 11 of 17 passes for 209 yards with one interception against the Lions last season in his second career start.It always sounds too bad to be true. There’s no way the Bears could actually be as awful as the Lions.

The harsh truth is that the Bears have barely been better over the last decade, and they’ve been much closer to slipping below the Lions at the bottom of the NFC North than overtaking the Packers at the top.

The Lions are in their 10th decade of doing nothing, and they seem to be perpetually rebuilding. They were expecting to show some modest progress this season but sit at 2-6 heading into their visit to Soldier Field on Sunday. It’s the first time the…