Ryan Poles

Um, as I said, at the end of the season, we have more constraints now than we ever have before for the back of the draft.

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

Um,

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.

Yeah, I'm really fortunate to have Matt Feinstein.

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.

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.

I want to thank Ben for his dedication to this job.

It didn't feel, he talks about being a first-time coach, it didn't feel that way at all.

His ability to take, like he said, the words off the wall and push that to his players and see them respond was incredible.

Even in some of the feedback we got, these guys were just doubling down on his message.

When it got to the locker room, there was no hesitation.

There was no gray area.

They pushed forward because they believed in what he was saying and what he needed from them, which was incredible.