RIDDLE: How does a sinking ship turn into a trainwreck?
ANSWER: When embarrassing performance is compounded by bumbling internal strife.
EXAMPLE: Your 2014 Chicago Bears.

Floundering on the field and in press conferences, the Chicago Bears last week brought their epic brand of fail to the locker room, with coaches badmouthing players...then coming clean...then findng players submarining each other.

OC Aaron Kromer anonymously told the NFL Network that the Bears had “buyer’s remorse” over Jay Cutler’s recently-signed ginormous contract, waited for the story to break, then outed himself to a betrayed locker room showing a special level of dysfunction and astonishing leadership vacuum in Marc Trestman’s regime. Away from Halas Hall, the injured Brandon Marshall went on the record backing the assessment, while Smokin’ Jay typically shrugged it off with an “I don’t care” demeanor (for once making his indifference seem noble).

Will the team rally? Will the team fold? Why can’t signing players be like the rest of our holiday shopping, with a quick remedy for such buyer’s remorse....