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https://dawindycity.com/2018/04/07/chicago-bears-ryan-pace-big-picture-free-agents/
Please read the linked article for FULL CONTEXT.
Please read the linked article for FULL CONTEXT.
...Sure, telling these players to seek the best deal they can get and matching it might slightly inconvenience the Chicago Bears in some ways—maybe they have to fork up more guaranteed money than they want to, or that money is staggered in ways they wouldn’t have drawn up.
But it shows these free agents two things: that Pace respects their right to get paid as much as they can and that the Bears have no problem investing in them if they want to keep them around.
Pace is paying that little bit of extra money for the goodwill and respect of his players. For one thing, he has the cap space to do that. And moreover, he’s trying to make the Chicago Bears a franchise people want to play for...