Ryan Poles

I can rep the draft 150 times in April before we get to it.

And it's just like preparing for a game.

It's slow motion.

Nothing surprises you because you've worked some of those crazy, you know, someone picked someone right before you or a trade happened.

And your ability to adapt and adjust along the way gets really, really high.

I think it's learning through that chaos.

I separated myself.

I really did get off of kind of looking at everything.

I was listening to a podcast.

I think your name is Brene Brown.

And she said the algorithm in social media is to validate what you already believe or to show you what you fear the most.

And as it hit me, and no one's described it that way, I was like, if I'm going to leave this organization, I have to get off of that.

Because if I'm acting out of fear or acting out of closed-mindedness, then we're not going to be in a good spot.

And that's given me a lot of freedom to kind of weather the storm, but to see things the way they are.

There's a couple situations, even with Caleb, where for some reason when things just feel like they're ebbing away from you, it almost validates like,

especially the noise part of it, you're close.

You talked about a young, talented kid.

They get a lot of crap from the outside world.

To me, they see the talent.

They see what this could be.