Matt Nagy brought an idea back from his trip to the Masters in April and implemented it during the Bears’ kicking competition at Halas Hall.



Augusta silence.



When one of the three kickers vying for the most talked-about job opening in Chicago goes to kick in front of the team, everyone gets quiet. More than 100 pairs of eyeballs fixate on the kicker in a setting that Nagy referred to as “eerie.”



“It doesn’t really get quiet all the time when you’re kicking,” Nagy said following Wednesday’s OTA. “Normally it could be loud. But the ‘crave pressure’ and ‘create pressure’ is for our whole team and not just the kickers.”



Special teams coordinator Chris Tabor said the silence is another way to “add pressure each and every day.”



“That’s been awesome,” he said about the golf course atmosphere. “And when you stand back there and...