LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Here are 10 things you need to know as the Bears returned to Halas Hall Monday following their bye week:

1. Marc Trestman says he still feels supported by his bosses. A Sunday CBSSports.com report said “several members of the organization feared for Trestman’s job” after the Bears’ 51-23 loss to the Patriots Oct. 26, but the head coach unsurprisingly painted a much different picture Monday.

“The support in this building has been outstanding,” he said. “That’s all I can say. Everybody upstairs has been extremely supportive of the way we’re handling things.”

The CBS report also claimed the players are tuning Trestman out, but the head coach refuted that notion.

“Our team has been unbelievably compliant in doing everything that we as coaches and myself have asked them to do,” Trestman said. “That’s evident on the field. It’s evident in the locker room. It’s evident in the meeting room that these guys are an amazing group of men that have been extremely compliant. And the support has been there.”

In examining reports like these, it’s important to note that “numerous sources” can mean as few as two players, for example. And on an underachieving 3-5 team with 53 players on the active roster, there are bound to be a few who aren’t completely sold on Trestman at this point. But are the Bears “in a state of crisis,” as the report claimed? That’s probably overstating it. Are Marc Trestman and general manager Phil Emery in the middle of a very important time period of their regime? Absolutely.

The good news is that while a win in Green Bay Sunday appears unlikely, it also presents the perfect opportunity for this team to turn things around.

2. Trestman thought about naming captains for the second half of the season, but won’t… for now.

One legitimate concern brought up in the CBS report was a lack of leadership in the Bears’ locker room right now. It’s not so much that there aren’t any players with leadership qualities as it is a sense of confusion as to which players’ voices hold enough credibility for the other 52 guys in the locker room to truly listen.

In other words, who has the credibility to stand up in the locker room after an embarrassing home loss to the Dolphins, hold his teammates accountable, and not have anyone walk out of the room?

If you were to poll Bears’ players on that very question right now, you’d probably have a wide variety of answers, and one has to wonder if that’s the main reason why Marc Trestman opted not to have the team vote on captains this season. Instead, the coaching staff has been naming weekly captains, which can be viewed as a reward system, or it can be viewed as simply having to pick three players to handle the coin toss each week.

But given how this season has played out, did Trestman think about re-evaluating his captaincy philosophy during the bye week and name permanent captains for the rest of the season?

“I had moments where we did talk about it, and I did think about it,” Trestman admitted. “But I felt that it’s in the best interest of the team to move forward (with weekly captains). As I told them, at some point later in the season when the time is right, there will be a time where we can possibly elect captains for the year. But I think it’s still a fluid process with our team. We have so many new guys, a lot of young guys in a lot of different places. I felt collectively it’s in the best interest of the team to continue to make it a fluid process week in and week out. We’ve got a lot of guys working to help this team get better.”

It also sounds like a team that would still struggle to settle on a handful of captains if they were asked to vote on them.

3. Jordan Mills worked at left guard in practice. Trestman hinted at the move before the bye week and the second-year player with 23 starts at right tackle appears to be on the move to left guard, where the Bears have to replace Matt Slauson, who is out for the year with a torn pectoral muscle.

“(Mills) has the skill set to be able to (play guard),” Trestman said. “He’s big, strong. He’s got long arms. He’s quick. A player playing at the tackle position is generally as athletic a player as you have on the offensive line, so to move him inside and still have that skill set—he’s got all the tools necessary to play the position, certainly.”

Mills is a big, strong player, but he didn’t always have the quickness necessary on the outside. He’ll see slower, but more powerful players inside, a challenge he’ll need to adapt to, but guard is a position he might be better suited to play.

“My team needs me to play a position and I’m going to do it,” Mills said Monday.

4. Trestman expects to see good things from Lance Briggs in the second half. Asked what he needs to see from his veteran weak-side linebacker, Trestman responded:

“His best. We want him to bring his best. Having him out there being the vocal, the leader part of it is certainly a huge part of it. Getting people lined up. And then just playing as hard and as fast as he’s capable of playing, as he did when we started the season.”

Briggs has missed three straight games with injuries, but is expected to play Sunday against the Packers. These final eight games could certainly be his last with the Bears as his contract expires at the end of the season.

5. Darryl Sharpton is week-to-week with a hamstring injury. The linebacker has filled in nicely with Briggs, Jon Bostic and D.J. Williams all battling injuries, but the Bears will not have Sharpton’s services against the Packers Sunday.

6. The good news is that Bostic and cornerback Kyle Fuller are expected to play. Both players practiced Monday.

The Bears are not required to release an official injury report until Wednesday, but it is expected to be a much shorter list of players than before the bye week.

7. Eben Britton had his appendix removed and is also week-to-week. He replaced Slauson at left guard when the injury occurred and could still provide depth inside, but Britton is not expected to be able to play against the Packers.

8. Defensive end Trevor Scott was excused Monday for family reasons. He is expected to see more playing time with Lamar Houston for the year.

9. Speaking of Houston, he was officially placed on injured reserve (torn ACL) Monday and David Bass was promoted from the practice squad. Bass has played in 13 games with the Bears over the last two seasons. Offensive tackle Jason Weaver was signed to the practice squad in his place.

The Bears still have one more move to make as Slauson has yet to be placed on IR.

10. Wide receiver Marquess Wilson is still not practicing. He was placed on short-term injured reserve after breaking his collarbone in the preseason and was originally expected to be available to play after the bye week. The Bears are not offering any specifics on a possible return, but Trestman did admit Monday that the 21-day practice window has played a role in keeping him out. Teams have 21 days from the point a player returns to practice to either put that player on the active roster or move him to season-ending injured reserve. That helps explain why Wilson didn’t return to practice earlier, as the bye week would have essentially been  a wasted week burning the clock, but it also doesn’t seem like his return is imminent and you can almost certainly rule him out for Sunday’s game in Green Bay.

Adam Hoge covers the Bears for 87.7 The Game and TheGameChicago.com. Follow him on Twitter at @AdamHoge.