Fourteen weeks after cleaning out their lockers following their brutal playoff loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, Bears players will return to Halas Hall on Monday for the beginning of the team’s offseason program. Coach Matt Nagy said he expects full participation from players in the coming weeks, which will culminate in three rounds of OTAs in late May and early June as well as a veteran minicamp June 11-13.
Plenty has changed since Cody Parkey’s double-doink dumped the NFC North champions out of the playoffs sooner than anyone in Lake Forest expected. For starters: Players can finally enjoy the amenities provided to them by the renovation of Halas Hall, including a new locker room, weight room and various other state-of-the-art accoutrements after a year of being “inconvenienced” by construction, as Bears chairman George McCaskey put it.