{"id":40593,"date":"2022-06-07T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chicago-bears-lose-ota-practice-for-on-field-contact-violation\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T16:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:31:02","slug":"chicago-bears-lose-ota-practice-for-on-field-contact-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chicago-bears-lose-ota-practice-for-on-field-contact-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears lose OTA practice for on-field contact violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8211; The Bears were forced to cancel their organized team activity practice originally scheduled for Tuesday after having live contact during practices in May, a source confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source, NFLPA representatives were present at Halas Hall last month for a practice, which was a part of their regularly scheduled visits to each team, and witnessed on-field contact.  The NFLPA issued a warning and continued to monitor Bears practices by requesting practice video and saw more contact in practices after the warning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NFL&#8217;s collective bargaining agreement, which is agreed upon by the players&#8217; association and team owners, live contact is prohibited during offseason workouts.  For that reason, the Bears were docked an OTA practice in violation of league rules.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This is the first offseason program being run by first-year coach Matt Eberflus and general manager Ryan Poles.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Tribune was first to report the Bears&#8217; offseason misstep.<\/p>\n<p>The team sent an email to reporters on Monday night addressing a change to this week&#8217;s OTAs schedule with media access being moved from Tuesday to Wednesday.  No explanation was offered by Bears public relations behind the altered schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago is in its last week of OTA practices before hosting its three-day mandatory minicamp next week.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN&#8217;s Dan Graziano contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8211; The Bears were forced to cancel their organized team activity practice originally scheduled for Tuesday after having live contact during practices in May, a source confirmed to ESPN. According to a source, NFLPA representatives were present at Halas Hall last month for a practice, which was a part of their regularly scheduled visits &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chicago-bears-lose-ota-practice-for-on-field-contact-violation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicago Bears lose OTA practice for on-field contact violation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[2371,146,307],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2020\/0506\/r695975_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}