Ryan Poles

And knowing that right now we sit over the cap, we've got to make some decisions if that's cuts, if that's trades.

There's real relationships of people that gave it up for the Chicago Bears to advance our organization, and they may not be able to stay.

And that sucks, to be honest with you.

But it's what makes this league beautiful.

It's why we're all here.

It constantly gets shuffled up and moved around, and it's the challenge of putting together the best puzzle you can with different pieces.

So really difficult, but that's what we signed up for.

You've got to make those tough decisions, and they are business decisions.

You kind of...

try to take your emotions out of it and do what's best for the organization.

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 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.

Yeah, it's really difficult.

We spent a lot of time working through that process.