Mark Grote

Ryan Poles knows it.

He's right.

Those injuries, like the way several players developed this year, my guess is that Shamar Turner would have developed this year and been better at the end of the season.

My guess is that if Dio Dangbo hadn't gone down, he would have gotten better and found a place on this defense by the time that the season had ended.

But we all know that the defense has to be better, and the Bears know that too.

Bears, one more thing.

One more thing, guys.

I thought about Marshall today, and Layla, you would have too, because I walked into the media room today.

First thing that we saw was a massive box, huge box of Chick-fil-A chicken biscuit breakfast sandwiches.

shout out to the bears and a shout out to the bears for providing food a lot of times this year during training camp and otas and all of that stuff i feel like as media members like there's too much expectation of that like we just assume that we get good things and i don't know that i have had the proper gratitude so if the bears are listening thank you for the bears for providing us with food when you didn't have to thank you i also had a chicken biscuit this morning he did

I bet you did, man.

I bet you did.

Oh, they do.

It brightened my day.

Soda, coffee, they do provide, and I just want it to be on record.

I have gratitude and I appreciate it.

And it's also weird, guys, to kind of clean off my desk area out here at House Hall.

And the thing that gets cleaned up is all the stuff from training camp, basically extra sunglasses, suntan lotion, all of that stuff.

So it's like it's just so the juxtaposition of going from 90 degrees to whatever god awful degrees it is today.

It's just that weird end of the season feeling out here at House Hall.