INGLEWOOD, Calif. — This is the time of year when you start to get the truth from the Bears. They won’t tell it to you directly, of course, but Jalen Ramsey and Aaron Donald have a way of extracting it on the field.
You can go all offseason claiming everything’s fine, as Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace did, and no one can disprove it — until the games start. And when the first game pitted the Bears’ delusion against the Rams’ reality, the decisive loss in the opener Sunday can’t be a surprise to anybody who has been looking at them with clear eyes.