Jeff Schwartz
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This is going to sound odd to say, but I really do believe this.
I think Chicago will be better this season, but have a worse record.
Better this season, but a worse record.
The NFL has showed there are a couple things that hold true year over year, and the Bears earned two of these from last season.
One, turnovers.
Turnovers, you're hot.
You have great turnover ratio one year.
The next year, it stinks.
And the Bears' defense last year thrived on forcing turnovers, right?
They forced a ton of interceptions.
That is unlikely to happen year after year.
But again, their defense got better this offseason.
So that's good.
That's good.
But they had a plus 22 turnover differential.
That is wild.
They forced 33 takeaways.
That's a lot of takeaways.
But they might be better on defense this season.
With forcing less turnover, which is odd to say, but that's the truth.