The final time the Bears handed out the biggest contract in franchise historical past — to quarterback Jay Cutler— it didn’t take lengthy to for some to have purchaser’s regret. Not so with Khalil Mack. On Sept. 1, the Bears gave up lots for the privilege of constructing Mack the highest-paid defensive participant in NFL historical past: two first-round picks — together with this 12 months’s — plus a third-rounder in 2020 and sixth-rounder later this month. They bought again a second-round decide and conditional fifth-rounder subsequent season and handed Mack a six-year, $141 million contract. Seven-plus months later, it’s clear they’d do it once more. “He transformed the team on both sides of the ball,” chairman George