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When you're a marginal NFL player and the final preseason game has just been played, the worst thing you can hear is nothing.
If the coaches are telling you that you played great, that probably means you've made the team. And if the coaches are telling you all the things you did wrong, that actually probably means you made the team, too: Coaches don't waste time with players they're not going to keep.
But if the coaches aren't saying anything to you, your roster spot is in jeopardy. And Bears defensive back Corey Graham, a fourth-year player who's been an occasional starter but mostly a backup and special teams contributor, says the coaches aren't saying anything to him.
''To be honest with you, I don't know what is going on,'' Graham told the Chicago Sun-Times after the Bears' preseason finale Thursday night. ''I know just what you know.''
Graham said he was hoping to compete for a spot as the nickel back on the Bears' defense, and that since head coach Lovie Smith personally coaches the nickel backs, he thought he'd be hearing a lot from Smith. Instead he hasn't been hearing anything and hasn't even felt like the Bears were giving him a chance to compete for the job.
''The nickel back coach is coach Smith, so we meet with him and things like that,'' Graham said. ''If it's a competition or whatever it is; it seems like it's not even that. It's really not even a competition. It never really was.''
The truth is, it's always a competition during the preseason -- the coaches want every player to go out there and prove he's one of the 53 players who deserves a roster spot. But if Graham doesn't believe it was a competition, that probably means he hasn't competed very well. And it probably means he won't be around much longer.
Bad Sign for Bears' Corey Graham: 'I Don't Know What Is Going On'
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