Chicago Bears had ‘a lot of dirty hands’ in defensive debacle. But players aren’t panicking 2 games in.

The sky isn’t falling in Chicago, even though it might feel like it is.

That’s the message veteran safety Kevin Byard III wanted to get across to his teammates this week. As the saying goes, the NFL is a results-oriented business — and the Bears are 0-2 and coming off a 52-21 drubbing at the hands of the Detroit Lions. The results will be dissected endlessly, especially early in the season when the sample size is small.

“When you have a game like we did on Sunday, it feels like the sky is falling,” Byard said. “I just try to always remind the guys to not get too high or too low. We faced two really good teams to start this year. Sometimes these things happen.”

That may be the case, but the defensive performance Sunday was jarring, even against a high-powered Lions offense. The Bears all