Last week, we talked about all the things the inferior teams in the North would need to do to get under the salary cap for 2026. And most of them happened! The three bad teams in the North have generally made themselves more inferior over the past week. I'm writing this on Monday night this time, so there may be a little news since I wrote this, but I'm sure we'll have the main things.
Bears
The Bears had a lot of departures, and it started with Pro Bowl center Drew Dalman retiring. This earned the ire of a lot of Bears fans on Twitter despite their complete ignorance of why he decided to retire.