Ryan Poles

Philosophically, I feel the same.

It's going to be the best player available.

I know that may not be the most popular thing because people see kind of like on my board have yellow tags where we need to fill in.

But at the same time, I do believe, especially in early rounds like one, you really got to stick to the best player available.

We saw that last year.

I know there's a lot of questions like, yeah, Cole, why would you take Colston?

I think we found out that it helped us along the way.

So we'll continue to lean in that philosophy.

I think there's a common theme with the guys that we brought in.

One, we wanted to get faster, more explosive, and I think we did that.

I know we did that.

We want guys that are passionate about football, that play our style and our brand of football, and I know we did that.

And then especially the leadership to continue to enhance our roster so that we can continue to push forward, be a championship caliber team.

I know we got better through this phase.

I think I've mentioned this over the years, constantly just looking at short term, long term, what's going to help this football team now, but also being conscious of what's going to happen down the road.

We want to sustain success.

We've talked about that a lot.

In order to do that, we have to be very calculated with the moves that we make.

So when we were looking through different situations, we took that into account and we felt like sticking with our plan and going in for agency.

That was the best thing for us to do.