Nagy defends Bears' kicker search amid backlash

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy defended the manner in which his team conducted its offseason kicker search after multiple kickers that attended the rookie minicamp back in May on a tryout basis and left without a contract were highly critical of the process.

"I understand -- we brought in a lot of kickers that came in here," Nagy said Wednesday. "To me, I look at it as a positive, in the fact that we said we going to turn over every stone to find whoever's out there. We felt like we, at that point in time, when we brought in a bunch of kickers, we're going to test them all out and see what they can do.

"And then, within that time frame, we also put in some situations with…