Chapter 1: What insights did Ryan Poles share about the Bears' end-of-season press conference?
Bears. Mark Grody, covering the Bears for 670 The Score.
Can I get a couple minutes with you here, man?
I ain't talking today, man. I'm sorry. Okay. Go next to Mark Grody. Are you from The Score?
How gratifying is it when you win that battle and get the football thrown to you? What?
Host of the Take the North podcast. I'm sorry, guys. What was I talking about? Kind of shaking your head at God for a second, though. Mark Grody. My hair does look good today. With Rahimi Harrison Grody. On The Score. He's an apartment complex, this guy.
You know that man's music. It's Mark Grody, as in Rahimi Harris and Grody. He joins us live from Hallis Hall where the Bears just had their season-ending press conference. Ryan Poles spoke, Ben Johnson spoke, and Mark joins us via the Circa Resort and Casino hotline, CircaLasVegas.com.
And Mark, as I am to understand, we did not hear from George McCaskey or Kevin Warren as we have in previous end-of-season press conferences.
That is correct. And yeah, it was, though, Layla, a packed house out here for Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles, the two that did speak. And as you mentioned, the distinguished guests included multiple McCaskies. George McCaskey, Pat McCaskey, and Brian McCaskey.
Also, as you alluded to, team president Kevin Warren was present just off to the side of the lectern as those guys will line up inside every once in a while. Yeah, I was disappointed. I was disappointed, Layla, that none of those guys spoke directly. They took it in.
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Chapter 2: Why were George McCaskey and Kevin Warren absent from the press conference?
But no explanation was given on any of that.
Yeah, I think that typically they do speak at the end of the year. And this was my thought on it, Grody. By the way, if you want to see Mark Grody, he is joining us from Hallis Hall, twitch.tv slash Chicago 670 The Score. I think that the thing is, I understand that in less successful seasons, they might want to limit the talking because they talk for so long. But this is the good times.
Like, everybody keep talking. Take your victory lap. Answer questions. You get the benefit of the doubt. We want to listen to what you have to say. We want to know about your plans. Like, this is the time to not limit them, to not cut their mics so we can hear more. Like, accept the fruits of your labor as well.
Yeah, well, my guess would be that they would say if I was to have the opportunity to ask them and if I do see George, I will ask him. You know, sometimes I see him on the way out that they would say that they wanted to. I'm just guessing here, Layla, that they wanted to allow those guys to shine today to let them take their victory lap to take.
their bow that doesn't mean it wouldn't have been really easy for us to to talk to George separate you know later on out in the the atrium the front of Hallis Hall same thing with with Kevin Warren as well but that my guess is that was their their goal today I don't know that for a fact but one would suspect that it was it was them allowing Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles to take a bow today
And I also just think, and I was replying to one of our texters, nobody wants to hear George or Kevin. If we don't have to play the press conference, but it's always just good to hear from the people in charge, like ownership and a president. So that's just for the record.
Yeah, I disagree. I disagree with the texter or the caller. I mean, there was a time, like things are on the upswing. Ownership has been better. Kevin Warren hired... Ben Johnson, essentially. It was a big part of that. There are some things that they can take bows for as well, and they are hugely important voices in this organization.
So I don't think we're in the era anymore where you don't want to hear from the owner of the team, where you don't want to hear from the person. There was a time when that existed. That time is not now. I think we're all very anxious to hear from them and not just to hit them with the hard questions. There's layups everywhere.
There's there's puff questions to be asking these guys, including how happy are you that your team won a playoff game for the first time since 2011?
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