Bears’ general manager Ryan Pace
and head coach Matt Nagy met with reporters yesterday. They shouldn’t have. The more the duo talked, the more it sounded
like they didn’t have their priorities straight.
Granted, kicker Cody Parkey is a
problem that won’t go away, that is, until the Bears cut him. Nagy in particular was upset over Parkey’s
decision—made without asking permission from the Bears’ front office—to appear
on the Today show last week. “We always
talk about a ‘we’ and not a ‘me’ thing [as a team],” was how Nagy put it. “I didn’t think that [Parkey’s TV appearance]
was too much a ‘we’ thing.”
No, it was all “me,” as in, I
don’t want this to affect me the rest of my life. Nagy appears to want what most Bears’ fans
want—for Parkey to wear sackcloth and ashes until the team gets around to cutting
him. Keep Robbie Gould, and your head
coach doesn’t have to go all “me” and “we” on the media.
But, whatever you do, don’t sign
former Chiefs’ running back Kareem Hunt, not after he was caught on camera
kicking a woman and then pretty much lying about it to team officials. For that matter, don’t talk about how you
called to check up on Hunt last week, as Nagy did. Nagy coached Hunt with the Chiefs in 2017 and
found him to be a “really, really good kid.”
Really? Then take another look at
the video.
Then ask team owner Virginia
McCaskey what she thinks.
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