Kevin Fishbane

We still have the quarterback on the rookie contract.

Let's just figure out how much space we can get now to make the signings we want to make now.

Now, the other conversation to have about this is who are you using that money for?

Because we've learned in the past, certainly last year, and I think this is happening more and more, that if you want to go get better in March, that's the trade market more so than free agency.

So are there guys in free agency that they're going to circle and want to bring in like they did with Drew Dahlman?

Of course.

are there guys they want to trade for?

And they need to have that cap space ready for that player or two as well.

Especially again, if you're kind of not going all in, but you want to be aggressive for this year.

So yeah, with some of those guys, it's going to be a balancing act.

Matt Feinstein's the VP of football administration.

You know, this is, this is what they, this is,

what he's there for.

He's there to handle kind of these things.

And the bears are generally in a, like, it's weird to say this because if you go look at, you know, cap space, they're at the bottom of the league or near the bottom compared to past years, but they are, he has put themselves in a healthy situation where it is not hard for them to get cap space.

Um, but it then just makes things trickier year after year after year.

If you have to keep doing this, but again, guys, I, I,

I know I'm harping on this, but you would much rather be talking about it in these terms than saying, well, the Bears have $90 million in cap space.

They went 4-13 last year, and they have to sign four free agents and hope that all of them hit to even be competitive next year.

This might be a more monotonous conversation to talk about cap space and restructuring and salary cap hits and all those things, but it means that the team is in a better spot with the talent on the field.