Ryan Pace, Matt Nagy talk Kareem Hunt, Cody Parkey, the Bears' future and more in their end-of-year press conference

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Bears GM Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy held their end-of-year press conference at Halas Hall on Monday, giving reporters an opportunity to talk to Pace for the first time since training camp and Nagy for the first time since the team's loss on Wild Card weekend. The topics were wide-ranging, touching on everything from the health of current players, the Cody Parkey situation, and possible personnel movement as the offseason gets underway. Here's what was worth taking away from the conversation:

- Neither Pace or Nagy definitively shut down the possibility of bringing in former Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt. Hunt was cut after a video of him surfaced online in which the running back is seen kicking and shoving a woman, and then placed on the commissioner's exempt list. Here's what Nagy had to say about it:

“I’m a guy that, I don’t care who you are….here is what I’ going to say to this…everybody has, when you talk about second chances, well, what’s the second chance? Is it, what’s your situation? And so, with him, that’s not for me to decide. I will say this, me personally, depending on certain peoples’ situations, I’m a guy that has always been, now I was raised that way to give guys second chances, not third chances, now I’ve learned that from coach Reid, he’s done that several times with some people, but I will say that every situation is different. That’s his situation and I wanted to talk to him as on the true, personal side.”

And here's what Pace added:

“I think every one of those is unique. Each one is different. The circumstances are always different.  We’re not even there yet. I mean, I know what he is as a player obviously from watching. Matt knows more about him as a person. We’re not even close to that point.”

- The Bears didn't get much of a head's up from Cody Parkey's about his TODAY Show appearance. Nagy has an exit meeting with each player on the Bears roster, and mentioned that Parkey didn't bring it up during theirs. The head coach didn't mince words when asked about it:

"Well um, you know I found out, I don't even know the exact time that it was. But you know for me you understand that we always talk about a we and not a me thing, and we always talk as a team, we win as a team, we lose as a team. You know, I just, I didn't necessarily think that that was too much of a we thing."

- New defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano's scheme is in line with what the Bears are trying to do, but much of the hire has to do with Pagano's fit within the Bears' culture:

"You get into a situation there like we did, as everything happened at the end of the season, as every team — teams are dealing with it today after abrupt losses last night," Nagy said. "There’s just a lot of things that go on with your players, your coaches, so … Vic ended up getting a great opportunity. He did that.  The next part was now we’ve got to figure out what’s next. That’s exactly what we did. I think with Chuck from the times that we talked and just kind of seeing where he’s at No. 1, I always say this: It starts off with good people and good high character, so that’s No. 1. Then you get to the second part, the Xs and Os part and everything that we talked about in the interview is really what I enjoy and what I think can be really good with this defense." 

Pace shed some more light on Trey Burton's surprise groin injury that happened barely 24 hours before kickoff:

"He practiced Friday, just reflecting back on it then Saturday he woke up with the inflamation in the groin area. All our MRI's, all our scans show that so it's significant. We talked through that really every second and for us, our doctors and what the test revealed that was a real injury that he had to deal with. We were hopeful it would calm down by kickoff. Unfortunately it didn't. Our expectations would be if we were fortunate enough to win that game he could have been ready the next week but he wasn't ready for that game."

- The team plans to pick up 2016 first round pick Leonard Floyd's 5th-year option. Floyd played the best football of his professional career in the 2nd half of 2018, collecting all five of his sacks in Week 10 or later. 

- Anthony Miller is the only Bears player scheduled to have surgery this offseason. Miller will undergo a procedure to fix the shoulder issue that's been plaguing him most of the season. 

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