Dan Wiederer

Well, with the complex, I just hope we get an answer one way or the other soon.

It just feels like this thing is dragged out.

It's been talked about ad nauseum.

We understand how compelling the Bears case is.

We understand the NFL's logic and trying not to open up a loophole that 31 other teams could.

Take advantage of in the future.

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.