The Bears went 6-10 last year yet many presume to give Pace the benefit of the doubt. Experience says until a Bears front office actually assembles a playoff team, skepticism not only is appropriate but encouraged. The Pace regime, which includes Fox, can't talk about the desire to have leaders in their organization and then discard them without raising eyebrows. Matt Forte was too expensive. Matt Slauson was too slow. Winning justifies every decision but, until that actually happens again in Chicago, it remains fair to question why a GM who identifies certain favorable traits in players keeps ridding his roster of those who embody them.