Ryan Poles

He's getting calls from other teams.

And look, teams become vultures when they see a team like the Bears that's over the cap and has until March 11th to make those decisions.

The Bears don't want to cut Tremaine Emmons.

They don't want to cut DeAndre Swift.

They don't want to cut guys like that who are obvious candidates.

And trading DJ Moore solves most of those problems.

And by the way, you're pretty well set a wide receiver without him as much as they love the guy, and they do.

This is not about...

That last play in the playoff game.

They're not mad at DJ Moore.

They love this guy.

But if you get a suitor to take on that contract, you've got to be willing to do it.

If I had a dollar for every time you heard best player available here in Indianapolis this week, I'd be a rich, rich man.

Yeah, that's what you're going to hear plenty.

But look, when you're picking at 25, that's kind of got to be the approach you have to some degree.

Yes, it's a deep draft in defensive linemen and edge rushers and what the Bears desperately need.

but i asked ryan pulls about that spot today and he kind of pointed to the idea of they never they felt really confident they had their defensive line set a year ago and the injuries took control austin booker didn't come out until he was fully healthy from the knee injury and dio denbo who they said is going to be ready for the start of training camp that's their belief and they really believe this d-line is going to come together once they get guys healthy and they want a second shot at that while continuing to add players this offseason but

one of my takeaways is that they are wide open left tackle and I think their hope is that somebody falls to them at pick twenty five where they can get a franchise left tackle there and Ryan Poole's ruling out the idea of they're not moving Joe Tooney to left tackle Darnell Wright they want him at right tackle next to Jonah Jackson they said that's off the table a year ago that was on the table to move Darnell Wright to left tackle they are sent at four out of five offensive line spots and they are wide open at left tackle

It's not a great free agent class in that position.

Braxton Jones will be one of the top guys available, and they've already kind of formally and informally parted ways with him.