Greenberg: Can Caleb Williams make Chicago forget about the Bears' sad QB history?


by The Athletic

The Athletic— Ted Phillips didn’t mean to do it. He didn’t with the beat writers in January 2021 planning to condense the charter franchise’s long-running identity crisis with a pithy, viral quote that would haunt him for the rest of his days as the embattled Bears president. But he said it. And it was perfect. Advertisement “Have we gotten the quarterback situation completely right? No,” Phillips said after an 8-8 season in 2020. “Have we won enough games? No. Everything else is there.” That about it sums...

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