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Bears owner confirms 'stealth' pursuit of Tom Brady in 2020

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WARE, England -- Chicago Bears chairman George McCaskey confirmed the team's pursuit of quarterback Tom Brady when the future Hall of Famer was a free agent in 2020.

During Fox's Week 4 broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game, Brady revealed a story that he said had never been told before; that the Bears were "very stealth in their recruitment" of him once he left New England.

At the time, former Bears first-round quarterback Mitchell Trubisky was coming off a disappointing 2019 season where the Bears didn't make the postseason one year after winning the NFC North.