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Bears running back Tarik Cohen has been dealing quietly with a family tragedy this offseason. He recently opened up about the situation at a youth football camp.Cohen’s 19-year-old brother https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Kyle-Long-Jersey , Dante Norman, was shot in early June. Dante is now paralyzed from the waist down.“I feel like I was injured also,” Cohen said Monday at the camp he hosted at Elk Grove High School, via Larry Mayer of ChicagoBears.com. “Somebody I’ve been around my whole life. I feel like we’re one. It’s not like he’s a different person; it’s like we’re the same person. So if anything affects him, it affects me. That’s my little brother. I’ve done the best to protect him my whole life.”Cohen had kept the matter private until last Sa ... ay, at another youth football camp at his alma mater of North Carolina A&T.“It just came out,” Cohen said. “It wasn’t planned or anything. I just saw a camper who was in a wheelchair also and I just saw my brother in him and I saw how much fun he was having. It just made me think of my brother and how his life is about to be.”Cohen has now focused on doing all he can to help and support his brother.“I feel like definitely he’s my purpose,” Cohen said. “I just want to do things for him. I know it’s not possible Tom Waddle Color Rush Jersey , but I feel like I want to walk for him. I want to experience things in my life and let him see those things so that he can feel it as if he’s done it also.”We extend our best wishes to Dante Norman as he confronts this challenge, and to Tarik and the rest of Dante’s family as they rally to support and assist him. Former head coaches haven’t gotten much traction for second chances lately, at least ones who weren’t considered offensive specialists.But for former Colts head coach Chuck Pagano, it runs deeper than that.Now the defensive coordinator of the Bears, Pagano said he’s not interested in being in ever being in charge again.“I’m not. I’ve done it,” Pagano said, via Jeff Dickerson of ESPN.com. “I’m motivated to just help coach Matt Nagy be successful. Help this organization be successful. Help these kids grow and develop. That’s my motivation is to be the best I can be for this organization, for the McCaskey family Sam Acho Jersey , for coach Nagy and for these players and for these coaches and help develop these guys. That’s the only thing I want to do.”Pagano also interviewed for an assistant role in Carolina, but despite Bruce Arians pushing his name out there early in the cycle, he didn’t get any interviews for top jobs.But his record as a head coach was strong, with the Colts posting 11-5 records his first three years (including 2012, when he was out for three months getting cancer treatments and Arians worked as his interim coach). When Andrew Luck played just six games in 2015 because of injuries, the Colts sagged to 8-8. Luck was back and perhaps not himself the following year and they went 8-8 again, and when the quarterback missed the entire 2017 season they went 4-12 and Pagano was fired.“I am better, not bitter https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Devin-Hester-Jersey ,” Pagano said. “We had a great run, great experiences together. I was a lot better coach when No. 12 [Luck] was under center than I was when he wasn’t, you know, and that’s well documented. He probably got me a few more years than I may have deserved. I always say that. My wife is going to kill me for saying that, ‘just don’t say that.’ I just keep it real. But it was great to see Andrew back.“There was a time there that he thought he was never going to play again and we had a lot of tough, critical conversations, you know, because he is such a great teammate and such a great competitor. The NFL is better when he is on the field Danny Trevathan Color Rush Jersey , and I think we all saw that. It’s great for the game, it’s great for him, it’s great for that organization.”Of course, Pagano isn’t the first coach whose career hinged directly on the health of his quarterback, but the experience of not having one was clearly enough for him to enjoy exactly once.
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