Leila Rahimi

Well, and then you and I started talking in our pre-show meeting, Marshall, about the tree that Ryan Poles came from.

So when Ryan Poles is talking and we hear him say this, and the first thing I think is, you know, that doesn't convey confidence to me.

That does not convey confidence because if you're steadfast as a leader of a football team where there are only 32 jobs,

And you've talked to us about your process.

And you've talked to us about how smart you think your team process is and how you guys evaluate talent and how you believe in certain rubrics like the relative athletic score and how confident you are when you say best player available at 25, best player available last year.

After the draft last year, you say you stick to your board even though...

It can be tough at times and you want to deviate, but you stick to your board.

And we've all said at times, we don't trust your board.

But even then, you talked about it in a way that says, I'm confident in my process.

And this retrospectively does not convey that you were confident.

It does not convey that you knew your process or that you had picked up your best practices and were confident in those from your team.

And when I say your team, I mean Kansas City, where you were adjacent to the people who drafted Patrick Mahomes.

But who was the head coach at Kansas City, Marshall?

I would agree.

And the benefit of being a general manager walking into a new situation, or what you guys want to call his cap hell, but it was, you know, you're in a cap situation now that is completely a Ryan Poles production.

He's the one who extended Montez Sweat.

He's the one who signed Dio Odengbo.

He's the one who gave DJ Moore another contract.

I don't criticize all of those decisions to that extent, but the big money deals, which is what I'm trying to illustrate, including extending Jalen Johnson, who wasn't his player.

These are Ryan Pohl's front office decisions.