Tackle Charles Leno practices with Bears’ No. 1 offense

“It indicates to me that we aren’t content being in contention or close”, said Colts tight end Coby Fleener, Luck’s teammate at Stanford. “I think he has a ton of ability and he’s going to be a good football player here”.

If the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts were practicing together 10 days ago, before they’d gotten the chance to take out their aggression on an actual opponent in their preseason openers last week, Bears head coach John Fox might have been asking a little bit much when he said he wanted competitive but civil practices this week.

From @nb182: Do you think they will win more than 5 games this season? We saw a 4-3. I thought that was good work for our guys to see. You have different styles of offense and defense and that’s good practice for your team.

“[Leno has] been playing with the two’s all camp, and he’s been performing well”, Fox said.

The Colts’ Andrew Luck was an enlightened choice.

As far as dynasty leagues go, it’s always a smart idea to purchase a piece of good offenses, and Dorsett is in a position to thrive in the coming years.

Maybe the Colts will give the Bears a peek of their rebuilding syllabus while they’re at it.

After Brock Vereen struggled against the Dolphins last week, Amos was bumped up the starting defense and he has a big opportunity this week to show what he can do.

Gore can be the most important addition to the Colts attack if he can bring some degree of stability to a backfield that last season was so tumultuous.

“We evaluate every snap of practice and he’s graded and evaluated”, Fox said.

“I started Julius Peppers, started Von Miller so I’m not overly concerned”, he said. Hilton should be the No. 1 target in this passing game, and he’s worth drafting in Round 2 in all formats. And there were some things that we need to do better. You don’t know with these guys, from all different places, whether drafted or free agents. “You just have to be disciplined”. “I put in my work so Sundays should be easy”.

The Colts rookie had just thrown three interceptions, one touchdown pass and barely completed half of his 45 throws in a 41-21 loss to the Bears. In 2014 Ball was in his second-straight year of starting corner duties with the Jags before a triceps injury in the seventh game landed him on injured reserve and ended his season. On Saturday, Luck will be back on his home turf ready to face Chicago again – this time as the presumed standard bearer for the next generation of NFL quarterbacks.

The coach added that, while evaluation is key to training camp and the preseason, he still wants to win. “I can graduate to the next step.’ I don’t want loose ends to just go, if that makes sense”. Right now, Ballard is the fifth running back on the Colts’ depth chart.

Indianapolis Colts running back Vick Ballard has not played in an NFL game in nearly two years. Putting the sentimental value aside, Ballard’s return Saturday is critical for himself trying to ultimately make the Colts roster. The team only kept four on their active roster so Ballard is now the odd man out.

Meanwhile, Bears kicker Robbie Gould spent a large portion of the practice hanging out with Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri, who at age 42 is now in his 20th NFL season.

“I think at this point, they get kind of exhausted of beating on each other”, Fox said.

After looking at the rest of the AFC – two divisions that will be highly contested, the East and North, plus the West – we turn our attention to a division that is much more evenly divided into “haves” and “have nots”.