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Quality backups are key for injury-riddled NFL teams

The Bears made it through the pre-season with resounding success!

That is, they got to the regular season with all three quarterbacks — Andy Dalton, Justin Fields, and Nick Foles — intact and ready for action.

And here’s a guess: all three of them will play sometime between now and into the possible playoffs in January. Yep, even Foles.

Here’s an axiom. NFL players get hurt. Like, always. Sometimes positions get so diminished teams have to activate players from practice squads to fill in.

If you’re a Bears observer, you might recall the big hopes created by quarterback Jim McMahon, who was able to limp through one Super Bowl championship season, 1985, but faded as a team leader because he could never stay healthy.