The Bernstein Brief: Ryan Pace Thinks Big Picture
By Dan Bernstein-
CBSChicago.com senior columnist
(CBS) By all means, keep worrying about who plays where for the Bears next year.
While you're busy wasting your time with that, general manager Ryan Pace will continue to concern himself with who could potentially be playing where for the Bears when they are actually competing for a championship.
All the smoke-screening he and John Fox did Wednesday was an indication that they understand the size and scope of this rebuild. The Bears roster is the worst combination of old and bad, with big chunks of money sunk into dead ends, and they must be open to any and all ways to change that. Pace has done an inventory of what he has and what he needs, and his comments at the NFL Combine made it clear he's ready to listen to any other team that wants to put a price on a Bear.
Pace was being careful not to devalue publicly any asset that could be turned into something more favorable to the construction of a contender.
The 2015 roster will be transitional no matter what, and it will only be the first step in a project much larger than many seem to realize.
Dan Bernstein is a co-host of 670 The Score's "Boers and Bernstein Show" in afternoon drive. Follow him on Twitter @dan_bernstein and read more of his columns here.
