Dan Wiederer

And so it's this weird tug of war right now.

The fact that there hasn't been sort of a final declaration from the league that no, you're not getting it and that the Bears are still holding out hope that their appeal resonates with Roger Goodell is interesting to me.

You know, look like the two most compelling cases.

that the Bears can present up there is that Terry Fontenot was Ian Cunningham's predecessor in Atlanta.

And when he got that job from New Orleans, he was going into a structure where Rich McKay was the team president.

He wasn't called the president of football, and thus New Orleans got the compensatory picks.

Because they added this president of football title to Matt Ryan, that word football seems to be the thing that is preventing the Bears from getting these two

third-round picks.

And then you look at Ryan.

Ryan came over from Kansas City.

The Chiefs got the comp picks.

He is doing the GM job like every other GM in the league.

And so you're just curious kind of how the league, even if the Bears don't get these picks, how they sort of massage the language and move it around so that this doesn't become a problem that ultimately works in reverse of what they intended the entire JC2A resolution to work in favor of.

Well, it's a free player.

This isn't a late day three comp pick, right?

This is at a point in the board where there is still plenty of quality talent available, particularly in this draft.

There's a lot of people that see this draft as having –

really good depth into the early parts of Saturday.

And so you get another pick on Friday night.

I mean, it's a free player to go try to enhance your roster and make it a championship level roster.