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Charles Curtis

The Bears have a smart reason for playing darts and mini golf in their NFL combine interviews

NFL combine interviews usually reveal front offices asking questions of prospects that range from awkward to awful.

But I have to declare that what the Chicago Bears are doing at the 2023 event in Indianapolis is a good thing: They’ve put in a dart board and a putting green in the interview room.

Why?

“We wanted to see their competitive side come out of them,” GM Ryan Poles said to Good Morning Football‘s Peter Schrager. “So we were talking before we got here, and [head coach Matt Eberflus] was like, ‘What can we do to loosen the guys up and see if they’ve got a little competitive juice to them?’ So we decided on darts and putt putt.”

Loosening them up AND seeing how competitive they are? I like it. Chess, not checkers … or in this case, darts, not … not darts.

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