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Rich Campbell: For Matt Nagy's 2020 Bears slogan, how about: 'Prove it'

MINNEAPOLIS - Sometime before the Bears reconvene in mid-April to begin their next 100 seasons, the motivational lobe of Matt Nagy's brain will fire up a slogan for his third year as head coach.

The Bears will display it around Halas Hall, as they did with Nagy's first-year mantra "Be You." That directive fit wonderfully with their charmed worst-to-first turnaround in 2018, giving players a license to leave behind past failures.

They'll print the slogan on T-shirts, as they did with this season's "Chasing Great." Players will shove those shirts into giant black garbage bags Monday - locker

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