How much trust do you have in Bears general manager Ryan Poles?
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How much trust do the hosts have in Ryan Poles?
Hello and good morning on this Friday. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And yeah, there are times where we just randomly in the middle of silence will say, Max. Max Crosby. I don't know, Ray. I don't know that we're speaking it into existence enough. We're going to try. We're going to ramp it up. Max! I haven't heard Marshall do it lately.
Max. Not HBO Max. Max Crosby.
Listen to that bass. Have you done your run yet? You know how you were thinking about taking an outside run? Have you done it?
I will be doing that later on today. I don't know if you know, but we're getting up to 60 today.
We're going outside. But when you're running, you're a distance guy. So like somewhere during your multi-mile run, how many miles are you running today? I would say five miles max. See, somewhere during that five-mile run, do you find yourself likely to say just the word by yourself in silence, Max?
Yeah, that'll probably happen.
Yeah.
I'm thinking about running today without music.
Oh, no. You're just going to raw dog the workout?
Yeah, raw dog the workout.
We have gotten some really unstable phrases between the last time we left you with Anthony Heron and Lawrence Holmes saying the phrase, curtain jerker. Technically, I get it. It's a real term that the wrestlers and the wrestling fan bases use. And then also now raw talking the workout. But yeah, I feel... Okay, 630. I don't know that Max is the new Bears, but I think it's getting up there. I think it's getting up there. Like, if you just find yourself silent and the first word that comes to you is Max, aka Max Crosby, I don't think you have a problem. I think you have a solution. Hopefully one day they'll be synonymous. I don't know, guys. I don't know. I think we need a capologist, a cap wizard, a cap guru, and some sort of other magical being in order to fix this.
We can find one of those.
Perhaps.
I'll work on that.
Well, and in the meantime, we found the Bears front office, which I think we can all say this time this year compared to this time last year is in a much more trustworthy place.
I wouldn't call it night and day, but I would call it night and sunrise. How about that?
Yeah, they did their part to earn back some capital with Bears fans winning a playoff game, of course, the first in 15 years, making the right decision in hiring Ben Johnson, although I do think that was a team thing. I very much credit George McCaskey and Kevin Warren in that. And then also being able to put together a resume and a body of work last year that puts him in a better spot. It puts him in a better spot. But unfortunately, that means you get a lower draft pick. Unfortunately, that means you don't have as much money to spend under the cap. And at this time last year, I want you guys to remember, we were hemming and hawing on the midday show, myself included. about the interview that Ryan Poles did with Sirius XM Radio where he talked about steps being skipped in training camp.
And I think that they addressed it in a good way when they decided to say stuff like, strip it down to the foundation, strip it down to the studs, build this back up, do all the basic stuff so we can build on this in the right way. Try to forget everything you learned in the first year for Caleb Williams. so that way he can build this up in Ben Johnson's eyes, build up his best practices while he's still young, and put together what he did this past season. It was also a warning, though, that when you hear the GM say this, the head of the front office, the head of the football operations of the team saying, I was asking, well, why didn't you stop it? Like the buck stops with you. You're the guy who's supposed to be able to put a stop to that or change the course if you see it's veering off.
You shouldn't have to wait an entire season to adjust, right?
I'll give credit that. For the first time in organization history, they were able to fire a coach midseason. They didn't wait until the end. Right. And that, to me, was part of the evolution of Ryan Poles. And I am very much hopeful that he continues to evolve.
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