Since it’s been fun doing instant grades for each Bears game, I thought it might also be fun, since we find ourselves at the bye week and beyond the trade deadline, to take a step back and do a midseason progress report.

Now, with the Bears sitting at 7-2 and in first place in the NFC North, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that there will be quite a few high marks for this team and staff. I would say that most areas have exceeded the expectations that we had for them before the season kicked off.

However, there are most certainly some things that Ben Johnson’s staff and team need to get cleaned up. So with that in mind, let’s send home a midseason progress report and see how the Bears grade out after nine games.

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