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David Haugh: For $1 million, Ryan Pace let WR Cam Meredith leave Bears without getting anything in return

CHICAGO - Trusting Bears general manager Ryan Pace's projection for an NFL wide receiver over Saints coach Sean Payton's should create an uneasy feeling everywhere but New Orleans.

The Big Uneasy, if you will.

Sorry, but Pace hiring a smart head coach and signing a solid free-agent class hardly erases all the doubt he earned during his first three seasons when the Bears went 14-34. Those weren't someone else's Bears. They were Pace's as much as former coach John Fox's. But giddy Pace supporters can resume their party in

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