Chalk Talk: Will Bears stage another ‘mock game?’

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Coach Matt Nagy basically said Tuesday that it’s possible the Bears could conduct another practice like that, but he doesn’t anticipate it happening. A big reason is that beginning this week the Bears are holding practices on three straight days just as they will during the regular season. For those who don’t know, the Bears held a first-of-its-kind “mock game” practice under the lights last Wednesday night at Halas Hall. They replicated a game, from having players run out of a tunnel to working on different situations, not only like red-zone and short-yardage but sudden-change and backed up near the goal line. Here’s more of what Nagy said Tuesday: “That was kind of an ‘on-the-whim’ type deal for that. We have a plan for our whole team as we’re moving forward here, but I don’t foresee [another mock-game practice]. That was kind of a training-camp mode deal. We were still in training camp and now we’re trying to get this schedule set so that whoever wasn’t here last year gets a feel for how we do things on a daily basis.”