How are you feeling overall about the 2024 Bears?

Improvement, can often be a steady but solid improvement, and a process.  That's not just a "sports thing" but a "life thing" too.  My hope is to see real, significant improvement.  But I realize that may not translate into a neat little "win/loss" benchmark - not after all of the changes in 2024.  Forcing a hard re-set with the franchise QB, coaching staff, schemes and also some key O players, comes at a cost.  It can be a bump in the road to re-set the team like the Bears have.  Yes, it can (and hopefully is) a great thing to do in the long term.  But a hard re-set may slow the wins THIS initial year.  The team could improve, but incrementally - that could translate into an additional win or two this year, an 8 or 9 win season.  Now, it could be that the team does a Stroud-thing, but I don't "expect" that to happen.  Not with a hard re-set. 

And we all know that the "Stroud thing" is not the norm when a team does a hard-reset like we are doing on offense.  But I get it that most fans (and people for that matter) struggle to be patient.  We live in a time where folks want instant gratification.  That just isn't how life works.  Improvement, for the Bears this year, could just be a steady but solid improvement, and a process.  I just believe that is a reasonable expectation for this year.  Of course we should see something much better in 2025 and beyond, but maybe not this initial year - especially with a rookie QB.  And keep in mind Caleb may be a worse QB than what we already have.  I understand that fans want to believe he is a "generational QB" - but he just as easily could be a disappointment... or even a bust.  Drafting a QB is a huge gamble and fans don't want to believe that.  But busts happen.