Bill Whittington

you know, amount of investment that goes into sustaining success, you're going to be in big trouble.

And Chicago knows that as well as anyone.

We haven't had three consecutive winning seasons in this town since the 80s.

That's incredible when you say it out loud, you know, and so that you understand how difficult it is and you've got to go about doing the work that puts yourself in position to achieve those things.

And looking at where this team is and you start trying to figure out, okay, what can be restructured and then what are the priorities?

Are you looking at certain deals and saying, well, they're going to probably have to do something with this current contract just to buy the space that they need, whether bringing back someone who is a free agent or to go out and get a need, say, I don't know, defensive line?

Yeah, I mean, you're going to have to start to work those numbers.

I think one of the names that comes up often in this conversation is Tremaine Edmonds, and is there an opportunity there to move on and create some more salary cap space for yourself?

Now, you've got another starting linebacker who was extended last offseason who's now going to be rehabbing from a pretty serious injury in T.J.

Edwards, and so that's going to factor in to your decisions.

And so there's a lot of this stuff that –

You can't look at individually.

It's all part of a bigger picture, and you've got to start to go through that process with Ben and Ryan together, figuring out what fits do you like, what fits would you like to improve, and then how do you just kind of marry all that together?

We all know that they're going to probably need to figure out an answer at left tackle going into next season to give themselves time.

the best chance.

So what does that look like?

Is that a draft pick?

Is that a free agent on a short-term deal?

And so all these things kind of blend together.

There's going to be a lot of discussion about DJ Moore in the next month, I would imagine.