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in the seemingly endless Season of the Lists." The Bears DenNotesXs and OsSuperfansThe Bear’s Den Womens Nick Kwiatkoski Jersey , July 9, 2019New,75commentsDanny Trevathan leads us through another day in the seemingly endless Season of the Lists. CDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:The Bear’s Den, July 9, 2019TwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailDanny Trevathan #59 of the Chicago Bears celebrates after intercepting a pass by Nick Mullens #4 of the San Francisco 49ers during their NFL game at Levi’s Stadium on December 23, 2018 in Santa ClaraPhoto by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesBEAR DOWN, CHICAGO BEARS, BEAR DOWN!!!!BEARRRSSSSZierlein: Bears Montgomery high on NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year candidates list - NFL.com - Will Kyler Murray be the first QB since 2016 to take home Offensive Rookie of the Year honors? Or can Josh Jacobs keep the award among RBs? Lance Zierlein lists the top 10 OROY candidates for 2019.Mayer: Fans to select greatest moment in Bears history - ChicagoBears.com - As the Bears and the NFL celebrate their 100th season in 2019, fans will have the unique opportunity to vote for the greatest moment in franchise history.Chalk Talk: What is Bears’ deepest position? - ChicagoBears.com - Senior writer Larry Mayer discusses the deepest position on the Bears roster, the key to getting autographs at training camp and a Bears record that could be broken this season.Wood - The Most Complete, Data-Driven Breakdown of the 2018 Bears Pass Defense Available - Da Bears Blog - The Bears had the best pass defense in the NFL last season, finishing 7th in yards, 1st in yards/attempt, 1st in interceptions, and 1st in passer rating against. Now I want to look at the performance of each individual player in coverage, using stats from The Quant Edge.Medina: Allen Robinson Might Be the Bears' Most Important Offensive Player in 2019 - Bleacher Nation - Allen Robinson's star needs to shine in 2019. If it does, then Mitch Trubisky will take off.Medina: Danny Trevathan Has the Perfect Mindset for This Defense - Bleacher Nation - BOOM! That's the spirit!Eurich: The 10 toughest players the Chicago Bears will face in 2019 - 247Sports - The Chicago Bears sit as one of the NFL's best teams on paper heading into the 2019 regular season. What will make life difficult for Chicago this upcoming season is that the schedule will be much harder than it was a year ago.NFL Network analyst predicts Chicago Bears to go 13-3 in 2019 - 247Sports - NFL Network's Adam Rank recently predicted the win-loss record for every team in the NFL and sees good things in store for the Bears this upcoming year:Remembering past Chicago Bears training camp favorites - 247Sports - As the weather gets warmer and the sun is staying up in the sky for longer periods of time, that just means Chicago Bears training camp is right around the corner. Over the course of the last several years the fan base has found itself attached to underdogs on the roster.POLISH SAUSAGEWiedman: Patience is key in fantasy football - Our Turf Football - It's almost time for fantasy football. OTFB's Wanda Wiedman gives some tips that could help you become a winner!KNOW THINE ENEMYPreviewing the Detroit Lions’ first 4 games of 2019; Top 10 NFL Wide receivers - Pride Of Detroit - The PODcast turns its attention to the 2019 NFL season.Former Lions LB Marquis Flowers opens up about Detroit: ‘I was just not myself’ - Pride Of Detroit - The former Patriot-turned-Lion blames himself for not being in the right place mentally in 2018.Carl Lawson says Aaron Rodgers is easy to sack, but faced Kyle Murphy in only matchup - Acme Packing Company - The Bengals defensive end had a juicy opportunity in his one game against Rodgers, which probably skewed his impression of the two-time MVP.Will the Packers’ defense be better than the offense in 2019? - Acme Packing Company - It hasn’t been the case frequently in recent years, but this season offers the promise of the Packers’ defense being the superior unit.IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON WINDY CITY GRIDIRONBerckes & Snyder: Back to the Future Interview - Windy City Gridiron - Jeff and EJ interview two young writers, Jacob Infante and Jack Soble Prince Amukamara Jersey , to get their perspective on the draft class and 2019 outlook.WCG CONTRIBUTORS BEARS PODCASTS & STREAMSWindy City Gridiron Podcast Channel which includes Bear With Me from Robert Schmitz, Bears Over Beers featuring Jeff Berckes & EJ Snyder, and T Formation Conversation from Lester A. Wiltfong Jr.; Steven’s Streaming Twitch Channel from Steven Schweickert; and Robert Zeglinski’s The Blitz NetworkTHE RULESWindy City Gridiron Community Guidelines - SBNation.com - We strive to make our communities open and inclusive to sports fans of all backgrounds. The following is not permitted in comments. No personal attacks, politics, gender based insults of any kind, racial insults, etc.The Bear’s Den Specific Guidelines – The Bear’s Den is a place for Chicago Bears fans to discuss Chicago Bears football, related NFL stories, and general football talk. It is NOT a place to discuss religion or politics or post political pictures or memes. Unless otherwise stated, the Den is not an open thread, and profanity (including profanity only stated in pictures) is prohibited.Click on our names to follow us on Twitter:WCG Contributors: Jeff Berckes; Patti Curl; Eric Christopher Duerrwaechter;Kev H; Sam Householder; Jacob Infante; Aaron Lemming; Ken Mitchell; Steven Schweickert; Jack Silverstein; EJ Snyder; Lester Wiltfong, Jr.; Whiskey Ranger; Robert Schmitz; Robert Zeglinski; Like us on Facebook To say the Bears have enjoyed a rough start to the 2019 season would be an understatement. Their situation could be worse. They could be winless and staring a wasted campaign in its eyes before having a chance to take a breath. But it’s not as if significant concerns don’t remain. While Chicago’s defense and special teams groups are firing on all cylinders thanks to the efforts of Khalil Mack, Kyle Fuller, Eddy Pineiro, and Chris Tabor, an abhorrent offense continues to leave a lot to be desired. Mitchell Trubisky looks as if he’s regressed to a rookie level of play, Matt Nagy seems to have no legitimate answers to the glaring problem, and the rest of the Bears’ playmakers have suffered. The Bears can float on for a time where they lean on their defense and special teams, but if the offense doesn’t pick it up soon, their life preserver will deflate and run out of air. Fortunately for the anxious souls in Lake Forest, the Bears have a favorable matchup against Washington this coming Monday night. If there were a moment for a lackluster offense to get a second wind, it would be against the NFL’s current third-worst pass defense. If there were a stage where the Bears could collectively build on a positive mental psyche http://www.thebearslockerroom.com/authentic-adam-shaheen-jersey , it would be against one of the worst teams in the league. Here’s where Nagy, Trubisky, and company have to direct their energy toward in the District of Columbia. Don’t let the underdog hang around. Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty ImagesThe Bears have a better defense than Washington. They have more talent offensively, and are more disciplined than Jay Gruden’s bumbling group of players masquerading as a professional football team. Dan Snyder: running a tight ship since 1999. The Bears possess a better team than Washington ... on paper. All these facts don’t mean the Bears aren’t vulnerable to the foibles of human complacency. While the NFL has become rote and uncompetitive in many avenues—take Thursday Night Football or the Patriots winning a junior varsity conference every season, for instance—inferior opponents can still pull off upsets and catch their competitors off guard if they aren’t careful. If the Bears let Washington hang around Monday night, they’ll be at risk of suffering a defeat they can’t afford this early on. A sliver of hope is all an underdog needs to believe everything will work out in the end. Hell, it’s the basis for Case Keenum’s entire career. Washington jumped out to a 20-7 halftime lead over the rival Philadelphia Eagles in Week 1 before the Eagles mounted a spirited comeback. Last week, the Cowboys, perhaps the NFC’s current premier team, took a 21-7 lead early in the third quarter and never looked back. As their offense stands on the weakest of legs, the Bears are not actively built to come back in the fashion the Eagles did. They have to follow Dallas’s steady lead and cruise out a smooth victory. A fast start is paramount for the Bears to step above .500 for the first time in 2019. 2. Faith and rhythm, they go hand in handThere’s already an abundance of panic over the merits of Trubisky as a championship-caliber passer. That’s what happens when you’re 32nd in many relevant quarterback metrics (touchdown passes, yards per attempt, yards per completion). But at least there’s a degree of excuses for Trubisky’s putrid start to his third NFL season: the Packers’ defense might be special, and Denver’s altitude combined with Vic Fangio channelling any Chicago secrets he remembers is a lot to overcome. If Trubisky can’t light up a porous Washington defense, the only reasonable justification will be that he suffered some sort of unfortunate injury taking him out of most of the night’s proceedings. Anything less than a competent, manageable effort to the tune of 240-plus yards and a couple of scores, and trepidation over Trubisky’s standing will go from DEFCON 1 to a number off the scale. It’s a measurement of chaos the Bears aren’t prepared for.The only way Trubisky takes any step forward is if the Bears’ offensive staff snaps off the training wheels and begins to show faith in his natural ability. As flawed as he may be, getting their quarterback comfortable and optimizing his skill set should be the primary goal. Good coaches with a sound thought process make the most of what they have. Work in quick-hitting passes designed for the quarterback to find his groove. Implement explosive weapons such as Tarik Cohen more efficiently, or in Anthony Miller’s case, implement him altogether. Give Trubisky options to work with downfield aside from staring down Allen Robinson and checking into the flat. Using a similar game-plan from the first two weeks of the season is begging for familiar eye-scratching, agonizing results. There’s a clear disconnect over what Trubisky is capable of and what Matt Nagy and his subordinates see in their prodigy. Washington’s walking turnstile of a defense has to help bridge that gap. 3. When a quarterback shows you who he is Womens Mitchell Trubisky Jersey , believe himPhoto by Scott Taetsch/Getty ImagesThere’s a reason Keenum is on his fifth team in five years. It’s rather simple. Stay with me as the truth sets you free: he isn’t good. He offers the illusion of stability and confidence, otherwise known as what many NFL coaches and executives value far more than tangible winning and success. He’s the picture of mediocrity under center, a walking scapegoat front offices can reliably point to when the rest of their poorly-scaled operation inevitably falls apart. This, predictably, is even after they initially insisted he was a quality “pro and leader.” There aren’t many quality starting quarterbacks in the NFL. There are barely a handful of respectable understudies to count behind them. Keenum somehow manages to fit in that Purgatory of occasionally very rare proficiency and mind-numbing listlessness. He’s the ideal “bridge” quarterback, if you are naive enough to believe in such a racket. Two games into the 2019 season and Keenum’s 111.2 passer rating is sixth in the NFL. He’s tied for fourth (with four others) with five touchdown passes. At first glance, Washington being 0-2 is not Keenum’s fault. This, at its core, is the essence of Keenum and most ineffectual, uninspiring quarterbacks. (See Cousins, Kirk for a more prominent example.) Keenum appears respectable to a certain extent, but can’t lift his team past a necessary line. He pads his stats when the games mean the least and can build a hollow resume out of his somewhat gaudy box scores. Washington can win with a quarterback such as Keenum, but only sometimes and mostly never. Some other poor sap of a general manager will readily be sold on Keenum’s services in 2020, if only because it will offer a chance at false offensive virtue to sell to a desperate fanbase seeking the faintest hope. Suffice to say, the Bears’ great defense has to turn Keenum into the trademark pumpkin he really is lying beneath the surface. It was always going to be a stretch for Chicago to match their lofty turnover expectations of last season. If they’re to start matching that standard, they have to begin against a quarterback who will afford them every opportunity to humiliate him. If there isn’t serious consideration for hotshot rookie Dwayne Haskins to start the following week, then one-man scoring machine Eddie Jackson and friends have failed.Robert knows Dan Snyder is too stubborn to seriously consider changing his franchise’s namesake. It’s understandable. He does have to maintain an over two-decade long standard of mediocrity that lacks any hint of self-awareness. Follow him on Twitter @RobertZeglinski. You can’t take a picture of this, it’s already gone.