No loaf lost on bears: If you're playing for Smith, you'd better be hustling

SAN FRANCISCO -- Preseason games are the only time when itactually doesn't matter if you win or lose but how you play the game.

It starts with effort. Nobody wants to be caught loafing on tape,and cameras are omnipresent. Every practice, every scrimmage, everygame is filmed from multiple angles.

If a player isn't a part of the Bears' plans for this season,another team could see him on tape, so every play is essential,starting tonight in the team's preseason opener against the SanFrancisco 49ers.

Every NFL team keeps some statistic that measures hustle, andBears coach Lovie Smith is renowned for charting "loafs," plays inwhich it's determined that 100 …