The music started Monday, the metaphorical chairs spread six feet apart in a circle, for safety.
The NFL’s quarterback-hungry teams spent the next two days plopping down into a seat, overpaying potential answers at the most important position in sports during the league’s legal tampering period.
Teams can’t officially sign players until 3 p.m. Wednesday, but many have already made their intentions clear. Chief among them: the Buccaneers, who reportedly agreed to sign Tom Brady for about $30 million a year Tuesday hours after he announced he was leaving the Patriots after 20 seasons.
Bears general manager Ryan Pace, meanwhile, continues circling his candidates as if he were playing musical chairs, waiting for the appropriate — and cost-effective — answer for someone to push, or supplant, starting quarterback Mitch Trubisky.