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Talk about shock and awe. Yesterday, the Bears trotted out three of their latest acquisitions—offensive guards Joe Thuney and Jonah Jackson along with defensive tackle Grady Jarrett—to meet the media. Only the media acted like it was the second coming. Everywhere I looked, it was the three Bears saying this, that and the other. The craziest, or most confused, was Thuney, who made it sound like he was going to the Chiefs, where he won four Super Bowls, instead of the Munsters of the Midway, a team that hasn’t even played in four Super Bowls. Again, this is how the NFL juggernaut works. Consider that the Sun-Times offered up four pages on the Bears plus an attack on ex-Bear Justin Fields by columnist Rick Morrissey. Four plus one equals five pages of Chicago football coverage, folks. That includes an obit for John Johnson, a defensive tackle who played on the Bears from 1963 to 1968. When White Sox star pitchers and Joel Horlen (2022) and Gary Peters (2023) died, you needed a magnifying glass to read about it. All hail the juggernaut. Oh, and the Munsters have two more new Bears to introduce today.