Matt Spiegel

Brett, I believe truly that this draft is bigger than last year's draft for Ryan Poles just because they have on offense everything they need in the quarterback and the head coach, the two most important things, but they have not yet, at least under Ryan Poles, and you just talked about it going back to 2005 with the draft and develop, they have not been able to draft defensive linemen who have been

stellar, above average, however you want to put it.

There has not been a game changer that has been brought in by Ryan Pulse.

Do you agree with that kind of assessment that this is bigger than last year because of the importance of that position?

I mean, just look at the last two Super Bowls.

Well, I think the fact they were even in on Max to begin with was them kind of acknowledging like, yeah, this has been a weak point for us.

The reason why the Ravens were in on it is because, boy, you think the Bears are bad at drafting developing edges.

Look at the Ravens graveyard since, you know, basically they let Zedaria Smith and Matthew Judon walk out the door.

They have consistently had to bring in older edges in Baltimore to fix their problem.

And Trey Hendrickson was their this year solution to that.

But like they were in on it for the same reason, like both of these teams, they're just like, God, we can't.

We can't get a guy and some franchise franchises are very good at that.

You know, Chiefs got Chris Jones in the second round.

Pittsburgh got T.J.

Watt late in the first round.

You know, Houston is consistently found edge rusher.

I mean, even Will Anderson is a top five pick, but like they've consistently found other pass rushers through other means that don't cost a high first round pick.

The Bears just haven't been able to do it basically since the Khalil Mack era.

And we're we're almost approaching a decade since that 2018 defense.

Like I know time has flown, but it's been a while.