Ryan Poles

I think in the next few weeks, we'll see if we can get some clarity on that, just in terms of retaining our own.

I want to see how that plays out.

As I said, at the end of the season, we have more constraints now than we ever have before.

We're further back in the draft.

From a cap standpoint, we've got to clear some room there.

So we have to be strategic.

And also, like I've always said, it takes two to make that happen.

So we want to be really smart with the guardrails that we put up.

And if it falls under that, then great.

Yeah, we'll have conversations over the next, you know, probably 10 days here and see if we can make that happen.

I think he's one of the best cap guys in the league.

He gives us a lot of different scenarios for us to operate in, but also showing us the short-term and long-term effect of each one of those decisions.

Because we want to stay in that sweet spot where we have maximum amount of flexibility as we move on, not only from this year, but three years down the road.

I hope eventually to have a quarterback situation, too, where we've got to pay a young quarterback.

So that comes into play as well.

I think we're getting closer and closer to clarity on that side of things, which helps us start to build those models to make sure that, again, we're doing the right thing for us moving forward and we're not putting ourselves in a situation where we've got to make really tough or bad decisions down the road that hurt us.

Yeah, 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 best player available.