Green Bay gets Montez Sweat. Everyone else gets a number.

Davenport is retired, and I've covered that twice already — the announcement, then the fuller accounting of what it cost the Bears to sign him in August and get nothing back. What I haven't said plainly is what it means for Sunday: Montez Sweat is the entire defensive end rotation. Dayo Odeyingbo is listed behind him on the depth chart and has not logged meaningful snaps this season. That's it. That is the depth.

Green Bay will know this. Every offensive coordinator knows this by Wednesday. The Packers will run their protection toward Sweat all game, chip him early, and make the Bears prove someone else can affect the pocket. Right now there is no one else. The DL group — Kromah, Booker, van den Berg — has been on the field, but none of them are defensive ends in the traditional sense, and none have produced in a way that shows up in the counting stats. Dennis Allen has pieces; he does not have a second edge.

The Bears won a lot of close games last year by doing the small things right at the right moments. A pass rush that runs one player deep is not a small thing. It is a structural problem that a good quarterback — and Green Bay has one — will find before halftime.