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CHICAGO - As the Saints and Rams play for the NFC championship Sunday in New Orleans, Bears general manager Ryan Pace will continue thinking long and hard about how he can get his team on that stage next winter.
The Bears followed a 12-4 regular season with a galling one-point playoff loss to the Eagles. And listening to Pace and coach Matt Nagy on Monday at Halas Hall, it quickly became obvious that neither was in the mood - at least not yet - to celebrate a surprising division championship.
"Honestly," Pace said, "an abrupt end to the season is painful. It's painful because we set our goals high. We're proud of what we accomplished. But we're not satisfied."
Nagy was still visibly agitated when talking about the loss to the Eagles. He called it "sickening" to have to do dozens of exit interviews with players when he knew his team should still be playing.
Sure, Nagy acknowledged, he did watch the divisional round of the playoffs. And he'll almost certainly tune in to the conference title games.
"I've got that junkie in me that wants to watch it," Nagy
