Ryan Pace has two goals as Bears general manager: win a Super Bowl and reveal as little as possible in the rare moments when the NFL calendar forces him to take questions from the media.
So virtually everything Pace ever says is veiled and couched, whether he’s hedging on quarterbacks or trying to avoid a topic altogether. Reading between the lines, though, his comments Tuesday on free agent wide receiver Allen Robinson appeared to signal the Bears will do whatever is necessary to keep him.
While Robinson is amenable to that in the form of a contract extension, Pace seems willing to put the franchise tag on him — Robinson is on the record as hating that possibility — and live with the fallout of angering arguably his best player.