Adam Hoge

We're surprised like the political posturing in the back and forth and all this.

There's a lot of repairing that I think needs to be done here between the Bears and the state of Illinois because this all should what's happening now should have been done at this exact time last year.

I was in Indianapolis at the combine, having these conversations and doing some reporting on all this.

And the bears were ready to put a shovel in the ground and they wanted it all passed by the end of May, which was the end of the spring session downstate and Springfield.

And it didn't even come close to, they didn't even vote on it.

It didn't even come to a vote.

It just got, it just stalled out.

Same thing happened in the veto session in the fall.

And so, and then they were evidently told, which Kevin Warren put in the state, the open letter to fans back in December,

that they weren't even going to be a priority in 2026.

At some point, if you're George McCaskey and Kevin Warren, you get fed up and you say, all right, well, we got to build this thing.

So we're moving on.

And so not only do they have to reverse this thing, Illinois, I'm talking about from a financial standpoint to give them a better deal, which I just find that hard to believe.

There's an emotional standpoint, emotional component, all this to bring the bears back to,

to the Illinois side, and I don't know if that's completely repairable at this point.

There were signs of it in the last couple weeks, but I don't know, guys.

It sure seems like the Bears have moved on at this point.

No, it's fine.

It's a fair question.

And there's two answers from it.