The Chicago Bears remain a joke to the wider NFL audience these days. It’s been that way for most of the past decade, thanks in large part to the ongoing blunders by team chairman George McCaskey and the rest of the ownership. He authorized firing Lovie Smith in 2013 and has had a direct hand in every failed successor since, from Marc Trestman to Matt Eberflus. Fans have been saying for years that nothing will change until the McCaskey family accepts reality and sells the team. That is easy to ignore, though.