As Bears chairman George McCaskey visited with Dan Jiggetts and myself during "Bears Recap" Monday on Comcast SportsNet, we asked him about the interview two floors above the TV studio at Halas Hall that eventually led to Ryan Pace being introduced as General Manager January 9th.
"Throughout the process, Ernie (Accorsi, the Bears' consultant throughout their search for a new GM and head coach) kept hearing good things about this 'kid,' he called him. The more he heard, the more positive the feedback was," McCaskey recalled.
"As we went through the process, before we interviewed Ryan, he was just kind of 'out there,' and I didn't know that much about him at all.