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6 Takeaways from the Bears’ end-of-season press conference

From Ryan Poles' commanding presence to their commitment to Justin Fields, here are our takeaways from Tuesday's Bears press conference.

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Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren reportedly is a top team president candidate for the Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears search for a new team president is progressing with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren emerging as one of the organization’s top candidates, according to ESPN.

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Bears interview Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren for president job

The Bears have interviewed Big Ten president Kevin Warren, who is considered a finalist for their soon-to-be vacant president/CEO position, a source confirmed Thursday.

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Why Justin Fields could be Ryan Pace’s parting gift to the Bears

It would be an ironic twist for a general manager whose seven-year Bears career is best-remembered for him trading up to draft another quarterback, Mitch Trubisky, instead of Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson in 2017.

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Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll: Voters all over the field on Bears’ Arlington play — but almost half would sack any taxpayer dollar request

The survey underscores the difficulty the team faces in lining up support for its sweeping proposal to transform the shuttered Arlington International Racecourse into a stadium campus accompanied by a scores of new restaurants, businesses and residential buildings. “Why should the taxpayers fund…

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Dear Arlington Heights: There’s a good chance the Bears will have their hand out in 20 years

The lifespan of stadiums is shrinking, and just because the team isn’t asking for tax help now doesn’t mean it won’t next time.

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Bears’ George McCaskey: New stadium ‘our 100-year opportunity’

George McCaskey didn’t always believe the Bears needed a home of their own. Now, the Bears chairman said, is the time.

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Ted Phillips has no regrets but one thing he’d change: ‘Get the QB right, please’

The Bears’ president/CEO announced his retirement last week, effective Feb. 28.

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Bullish on the Bears? Arlington Heights open receiver of stadium pitch: ‘I’m extremely excited to know they could be coming’

Residents started lining up outside the high school two hours prior to the team’s tightly orchestrated public relations presentations. Many filed into the gym wearing Bears jerseys and carrying signs calling on the team to “rise to new heights in Arlington.”

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Bears move toward Arlington Heights stadium with ‘no Plan B’

Anything other than a new stadium in the suburbs is off the table at the moment, including renovations to Soldier Field.

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1st-and-10: Keeping Justin Fields healthy is Job 1 for Bears in 2022

Matt Eberflus’ approach is to practice hard, play hard and develop mental and physical toughness. Doing that and avoiding major injuries — starting with Fields, but throughout the roster — might be his biggest challenge.

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Dan Wiederer: As Bears President Ted Phillips prepares to move on, the team’s on-field mediocrity under his watch reveals bigger problems

CHICAGO — By the end of November, just about everything surrounding the Chicago Bears football team was undeniably ablaze. That extended window the Bears thought they had to compete for a Super Bowl crown? Incinerated.

Chicago Tribune

Ted Phillips, Bears President and CEO, plans to retire at the end of the 2022 season

CHICAGO — Chicago Bears President and CEO Ted Phillips will retire at the end of the 2022 season and the search for his replacement already is underway, the team announced Friday morning.

Chicago Tribune

Bears president Ted Phillips will be gone soon. The McCaskeys won’t.

The much-criticized team official will retire in February.

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Bears president/CEO Ted Phillips to retire in February

Phillips is the fourth president in team history — and the only one not related to founder George Halas.

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Bears president/CEO Ted Phillips to retire after 2022 season

Bears president/CEO Ted Phillips is calling it a career at the end of the 2022 season, according to Dan Pompei.

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Roquan Smith’s demand was the path of most melodrama

It’s one thing to request a trade. It’s another to issue a 343-word public screed that accuses your new bosses of being “focused on taking advantage of me” and refusing to negotiate in good faith and to demand that you be sent to an “organization that genuinely values what I…

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Roquan Smith mess spun out of Ryan Poles’ control; now he must clean it up

Smith went far enough to appeal to chairman George McCaskey to intervene, which only ratchets up the pressure on Poles to solve the problem.

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Twitter reacts to Bears LB Roquan Smith requesting a trade

Bears LB Roquan Smith has requested a trade: "The new front office regime doesn’t value me here.” See how fans are reacting to the news.

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Ryan Poles getting a baptism by fire as Bears GM

Three player arrests and the aborted signing of free agent Larry Ogunjobi are among the hurdles he has faced in the early going. But those mishaps could end up being the trials of a rookie GM more than an indicator that Poles wasn’t the right guy for the job.

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Source: Bears fire VP of player engagement LaMar ‘Soup’ Campbell

Campbell was part of the five-person hiring committee that chose GM Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus this year.

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Bears players wear No. 41 to honor Brian Piccolo

On the 52nd anniversary of his death from cancer, every Bears player wore Brian Piccolo’s uniform number at practice Thursday.

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Olin Kreutz must apologize as well as he can analyze

Kreutz’s remaining media jobs are in jeopardy after he grabbed the neck of CHGO colleague Adam Hoge in response to a flippant remark Monday, according to sources.

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Behind the Bears’ quiet build

The NFL’s league year began exactly one month ago. Bears fans longing for their favorite team to finally make a splash are forgiven for thinking it’s been twice as long.

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Bear Necessities: George McCaskey evaluates Ryan Poles, Matt Eberflus so far

Bears Chairman George McCaskey likes what he's seen so far from the new regime.

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