Ryan Poles

You've got to, you've got to strike the balance of your value, which is very high for Tyson Beijing with what, what teams are desperate enough to do to get him, because there's going to be a lot of teams really desperate to make that move.

Uh,

The NFL draft is a crapshoot for quarterbacks.

You don't know if you're a team that's in the mid of the first round trying to figure out if you're going to get your franchise guy or just settle for whatever.

So it's a fascinating option because he's proven himself as a starting caliber quarterback in this league, and certainly teams around the league see it that way.

Ryan Poles was asked today about their cap situation in general.

He spoke with credit to Matt Feinstein, who runs their administrative side, and the decisions they have to make here in the immediate future before March 11th.

But then he pivoted without being asked about it to Caleb Williams and said, look,

We've got to start considering the bottles and the formulas of that contract for him.

You're a year away from if he has that kind of strong third season, you're giving him that top dollar that a franchise quarterback gets.

That is anointing him beyond just lip services.

He's the franchise quarterback and he paid like it.

The Bears are preparing themselves for that.

And Ryan Poole's made it clear, like, they're setting up their books for scenarios with and without Caleb Williams getting that kind of long-term deal.

That is the ideal scenario.

That is something Chicago has been starved for, is having that quarterback where you're paying him...

crazy amounts of money and say, this is our guy.

We don't care.

We're going to win Super Bowls with him.

And that's what you've been desperate to have in this city, or not this city, Indianapolis, but Chicago.