- A team has a first-year head coach
- A team has made the playoffs in one of the previous two seasons
- A team has appeared on Hard Knocks in the previous decade

Why The Bears Will Be Selected For HBO’s Hard Knocks This Offseason
- January 8, 2023
- 2 minutes read
As the 2022 NFL season is officially over, Bears fans can head into the offseason hopeful for the future. We have a king’s ransom in salary cap money, lucrative picks in the draft, and a quarterback fans can finally rally behind. I suppose that’s a nice consolation prize for being one of the most broken teams in the league this year. While the offseason is exciting in its own way, the consequence of that excitement is having to endure the drought leading up to the start of next season. At a time where excitement is at its highest and news is the most scarce, one thing NFL fans have to scratch their football itch during that time is HBO’s Hard Knocks Series: a reality TV show that documents the offseason of one of the bottomfeeders of the previous NFL season. Generally speaking, NFL teams do not like having a foreign production crew present throughout their training camp, so teams for the show are chosen involuntarily (with a few exceptions), per HBO’s contract with the NFL. A team can, however, be exempt from selection given they meet any the following criteria:
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