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The Bears’ decision to sit outside linebacker Khalil Mack and receiver Allen Robinson on Sunday against the Jets had nothing to do with their looming division schedule, coach Matt Nagy said Monday.

After their game Sunday against the Bills, the Bears will play three games in 11 days against NFC North opponents — Nov. 11 against the Lions, Nov. 18 against the Vikings and Nov. 22 against the Lions again. The first two games are at home, and the third is on Thanksgiving in Detroit. The Bears are in first place in the division.

‘‘I don’t really think it plays that much of a role because all these games, they count so much and they’re so hard,’’ Nagy said.

Mack, who hurt his right ankle against the Dolphins, sat out against the Jets despite going through a similar practice routine as he did the week before. Like Robinson, who has a groin injury, he played against the Patriots but was mostly ineffective.

Bears outside linebacker Khalil Mack warms up Sunday. | Nam Y. Huh/AP photo

‘‘Trust me, we want Khalil Mack out there, right? We want Allen Robinson out there,’’ Nagy said. ‘‘They wanna be out there. But this is just part of the business that we have to make sure that we’re doing what’s best for both parties. As hard as it is to understand for some, it’s a body part. It changes all the time, your reaction to it.’’

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Nagy said he’ll ‘‘stay cautious’’ with Mack’s injury.

‘‘I’m hoping this week it gets better,’’ he said.

Will Bears make a trade?

With the NFL trade deadline looming at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nagy said the Bears don’t have an obvious area of need.

It also might be hard for them to go into acquisition mode, considering they already have traded their first-round picks the next two years for Mack and their second-rounder in 2019 for receiver Anthony Miller.

The Bears don’t figure to be sellers, either, though Nagy said fielding offers is part of the business.

‘‘If there’s something that teams are calling about, then you have to listen,’’ Nagy said. ‘‘But, for the most part, we just keep rolling. . . . We’ve done a lot over the past eight months, so we feel really good where we’re at.’’

Special gaffes

Nagy said punt returner Tarik Cohen made a mistake when he tried to pick up a rolling ball deep in Bears territory with about 5:40 left and the team leading by two touchdowns Sunday. Cohen touched the ball and it squirted away, but the Bears recovered it.

‘‘We’ve got to be a little more disciplined in not touching that football because we’re up 14 there,’’ he said. ‘‘If they get that ball back, they’re in the red zone. They weren’t in the red zone a whole lot, so that could be a sudden change there.’’