Chris Emma

But he is going to stick with his board, at least according to Ryan Bowles today.

He acknowledged Caleb Williams' rookie contract, and I think you said it the best.

No extension talk yet, because they still have steps.

And I wanted to get into that a little bit before we get to the rest of this, because...

You were right to point it out, Mark Grody.

I think another piece of this that's really big is I love that it's a direct contradiction to what he had to say at this time last year, which was steps were skipped.

Embrace the steps.

Well, and that's it.

And I like that Ryan Poles is saying, hey, nothing is guaranteed here yet.

If you want an extension, if you want to be the quarterback, and Jason Leisure was the one who posed the question about the certainty that he thinks the Bears have in their quarterback.

I feel that way, but I also like that the boss says, I don't think you're there yet.

I think that that's a perfect reaction when you consider this is year one of what he hopes is many things.

Not that it's his rookie year, because we know that was before, but that year one of a Ben Johnson offense and year one of trying to set a standard here that's different.

That's an important line to be able to draw.

Well, you know what else I think we hear when we hear Ryan Pohl say that?

Ben Johnson's opinion.

We're going to get it here in a couple of minutes, but when Ryan Pohl says that, it's asking the question, you know, did you do everything your head coach wanted you to do?

Did you follow the steps that your head coach wanted you to follow?

When Ben Johnson said strip it down to the studs last year, what did that entail?

And yeah, I think you bring up a really good point, Mark.