Matt Spiegel

Jeremiah Love at the top.

I don't think there's a running back next year that's as good as Jeremiah Love, but they're pretty darn close.

But you also have the quarterbacks, you have receivers, you have edges.

It's...

I think I think next year's class is going to be like a 2014 and go back and look at the 2014 draft and you'll see what I'm talking about.

So they didn't want to give up access to that class.

And I totally understand it for an edge rusher that's about to be 29 is coming off a major injury and already has a major contract signed.

So you're not just trading for the player, you're trading for the contract.

And I think they believed in this draft because there are so many edge rushers.

I think they believed in their ability to patch that hole through that while retaining access to the 2027 draft next year, which is absurd.

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.