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Brad Biggs: Pace, Bears can bide their time with ample cap room

CHICAGO - Two years ago Ryan Pace sat at the same posh Phoenix resort where the NFL owners meetings were held this week, confident the Bears were headed in the right direction as they prepared for what would be coach John Fox's final season but lamenting that some of the team's goals were not met in free agency.

The Bears, in Pace's first three years, had been ultra-active in free agency in a bid to overhaul the roster. The team had diligently pursued players at the top

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