Each year, August is a busy time for teams in the National Football League gearing up for the regular season. This year, the teams are even more frantic because all of them were dealing with the lockout for most of the offseason, meaning that the teams couldn’t hold practice until it the lockout ended. Now, the coaches are getting a good idea about how the players fared without scheduled workouts.

According to the Bears’ website, defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli talked about his goals in light of the fact that the Bears made it to the NFC Championships last season. He explained, “Our expectations continue to go up because we were one step away. We’ve got to make another step. But before that we’ve got to get back down and just get back down to the basics. These guys are going to know what to do; that’s a given. But what we’ve got to do is make sure we do what we know.”

The Chicago Bears are sure to make quite the impact on the league in 2011. The team has gone through many changes during the last few weeks, and the team will definitely have to work hard in order to merge the new and veteran players. Reserve your Chicago Bears tickets from StubHub.