Leila Rahimi

I mean, he does have to still pay attention to the football.

You don't want to lose that part of it.

Practice?

You don't want to lose the goodness of what's going on on the field because right now the outside world are looking at the Bears and the state and everybody and they're looking foolish.

Let's keep the part where the Bears are a good football team going.

Yeah, that's not his purview, though, in this case.

Well, he's ultimately responsible for that, too.

But he's not the one coaching the team.

No, but he might be the one who was responsible for hiring the coach.

Which I've said.

But that doesn't mean that you need to be out there for mandatory minicamp when this is going on.

Yeah, I'd prefer that he was getting more done.

But, yeah, I don't know.

I'm not into the whole, like, how dare he be out there, like when presidents are on vacation or golfing or whatever the case may be.

But, yeah, he's out there.

Well, I guess we have a report of what he is doing.

At least I can give you that.

Yes.

That's kind of the point is there's a lot of people speaking on his behalf and he's not.

McDermott, who was on with us this morning, also talked about his conversations with the NFL.