Ryan Poles

I had family members flying in O'Hare texting me saying, I've never seen anything like this in terms of the amount of pride that our fans had wearing their Bears gear.

pumped up about the upcoming game.

We felt that, and that's part of a job that we don't talk about a lot.

It's just inspiring a fan base, inspiring the community, bringing that joy and that fun to a community because of the football team and how they're doing.

Coach hit it.

We didn't reach what we wanted, the goals that we wanted to hit.

And that's to be a championship caliber team that'll never change.

But as we've moved a couple of days past that, I just, I am proud of the progress that we've made.

And knowing that, you know, we can't be complacent.

We got to keep pushing forward.

We both come from organizations that have stacked success back to back years.

And we know the challenge that comes with having success and then trying to get back to that the following year.

I can tell you right now we're all excited for that challenge in terms of building this team back up, making the tweaks, continuing to tighten the screws on the process and the people that we need to continue to elevate for us to get back to where we were and then exceed that and win championships around here.

You know, I do think it's important to take a step back, to get fresh eyes, to try not to wait maybe the last three games heavier than everything else.

So we'll do that, get back together, look at the roster.

As Coach said, there's some challenges and some big decisions we got to make.

But I'm excited for that.

Usually that means you're in a good position and you're having success.

And the more success you have, the more challenges and hard decisions you got to make.

And those will be critical for us to sustain it.