(670 The Score) While the NFL has the right to force the Bears to be featured on HBO’s behind-the-scenes “Hard Knocks” series, that’s quite unlikely to happen, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk said.
"I’m told (the NFL has) moved on to other teams that aren’t in that short list of four that can be forced to do it," Florio said on the Mully & Haugh Show on Tuesday.
Teams that haven't made the playoffs over the last two seasons, that have a head coach in at least his second season and that haven't been featured on the show for the past 10 years can be chosen by the NFL to be featured on "Hard Knocks." In addition to the Bears, the Commanders, Jets and Saints are the other three teams that fit that criteria ahead of the 2023 season.
Bears chairman George McCaskey has long maintained that he has no interest in his organization being featured on “Hard Knocks.”
“We feel there are several teams that have compelling stories to tell on ‘Hard Knocks,’" McCaskey told reporters in Arizona in March.
“Thirty-one others.”
In 2022, the Lions were featured in the training camp version of “Hard Knocks” while the Cardinals were subject of the show’s second ever in-season series.
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