At the end of Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace’s joint press conference Saturday night at Halas Hall, the Bears’ coach interjected while his general manager fielded another question regarding the team’s uncertain kicking situation.
“The one thing is just want to say real quick — I’m going to be upfront and honest too with the whole kicking thing, the elephant in the room,” Nagy said. “We already talked to our team about it. It’s good. There’s been so many examples in the last three, four weeks of, whether it’s an individual accomplishment in sports or whether it’s a team accomplishment that I could just throw at you right now, that something bad happened last year or in previous years, and it turned into a great deal the following year.