Kevin Fishbane

I'm good, guys.

Happy offseason.

This is new territory for Ryan Poles, really, and the Bears.

I mean, for the past few years, they've always been up there as having a ton of cap space, great draft capital.

And now this is what happens when you're good.

This is what happens when you sign a bunch of veterans and you start making some bigger splashes in the trade market and extending those guys.

You're up against the cap.

So they've got some decisions to make.

And I always allude to a conversation I had with Ryan Poles a couple years ago where he leaned on his experience at Kansas City.

He goes, it gets harder when you are winning football games because you can't keep everybody.

And this is really going to be...

the first offseason that we might see some of what, you know, it's a business, as you guys know, but are tough decisions.

If Ryan Poles doesn't re-sign Jaquan Brisker, that was his second ever draft pick.

If the Bears decide to part ways with Tremaine Edmonds, that was really his first huge free agent splash that they made.

So Nishon Wright, who was the story of the year, they might not be able to re-sign him.

So these are the things that come with

cap restraints and having a bit of a better team and owing other guys some money um but the other the flip side of that leila is there's only one player really that you could talk about getting an extension done now and that's darnell right uh and by restructuring some of these guys contracts you can flip the script uh and create a lot of cap space but that also kicks the can down the road a bit

It's interesting, Mark, because I talked to a couple agents who do not represent right, just kind of floated it to them.

If you were his representation, what are you asking for?

One of them said, I'd reset the market.