Chris Emma

And, you know, T.J.

Edwards, I think that was prior, but he deserved his extension.

There's no question.

After the performance he had the year before, T.J.

Edwards at times was the only guy who I think, not that anybody was loafing,

But that there were times where he was still just giving everything 110%.

You saw that on the field.

When you thought a drive was as good as done, TJ was getting an interception.

He was being disruptive.

But I say all of that knowing they've spent a ton of money on the defense.

We talked about it yesterday.

When I checked on the defensive spending, and this is before a couple guys got extensions, the Bears were still 10th in defensive spending in the NFL, and that was at week two of the season last year.

Were they getting 10th in production at the time?

No.

Turnovers, yes.

But everything else, I think we can all confidently say we want an improvement.

Which he kind of acknowledged, too, when he said publicly, Ryan Poles mentioned me by name.

It's true.

The cool part about this discussion and listening to this like this is that everybody gets to put the GM hat on.

You get to put the GM hat on.