Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show
How much trust do you have in Bears general manager Ryan Poles?
27 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: 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?
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Chapter 2: What changes have occurred in the Bears front office this year?
And we've all said at times, we don't trust your board. But even then, you talked about it in a way that says, I'm confident in my process. And this retrospectively does not convey that you were confident. It does not convey that you knew your process or that you had picked up your best practices and were confident in those from your team.
And when I say your team, I mean Kansas City, where you were adjacent to the people who drafted Patrick Mahomes. But who was the head coach at Kansas City, Marshall?
That would be Andy Reid. Longtime, experienced head coach. Some would argue he's a Hall of Famer. I would say he's definitely a Hall of Famer.
I would agree.
He's a guy who has the thickest of thick skin. He really doesn't care. He's going to do what he does because it has worked time and time again for him. I know he's coming off a disappointing season because they didn't make the playoffs after making the Super Bowl for the... I don't know how many times and how many years. But... His process works, and there are receipts that prove that.
Here's why Ryan Poles does not get that same vote of confidence from me. I've seen it now for one year, and I've seen it in accordance to Ben Johnson, who I do, by the way, fully trust, and I am a full believer in. And as long as Ben Johnson has a hand in what Ryan Poles is doing... That's good enough for me right now.
I just wonder, now that we're going from offense to defense in terms of where the need lies with your team, if you can replicate the same type of turnaround that you did a year ago. I have doubts about that defensively, but I think the offense is good enough to carry this team for a moment.
And the benefit of being a general manager walking into a new situation, or what you guys want to call his cap hell, but it was, you know, you're in a cap situation now that is completely a Ryan Poles production. He's the one who extended Montez Sweat. He's the one who signed Dio Odengbo. He's the one who gave DJ Moore another contract.
I don't criticize all of those decisions to that extent, but the big money deals, which is what I'm trying to illustrate, including extending Jalen Johnson, who wasn't his player. These are Ryan Pohl's front office decisions.
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Chapter 3: How did Ryan Poles address past mistakes in his management?
And it's funny that you bring up, Marshall, the decisions regarding free agency, for example. Let's listen to Ryan Poles talking to Cassie Carlson from Fox 32 at the Combine about discussing Darnell Wright. We talked about the offensive line. Darnell Wright was a huge piece of that as well, knowing that he's up for an extension. Is that a priority for you this offseason?
Yeah, it's definitely a priority. There's a lot going on right now. We'll eventually start having those conversations. It's been cool because anytime you have a new coaching staff come in, you're hoping that they saw the same vision as you did. And in terms of Ben, Dan Rochard, Kyle, the van, they share that vision.
not only, you know, we're excited about where he's at, but we're really excited what Darnell can be. If he continues to put in the work that he has been, we think he can be, you know, a really talented tackle in this league and help us win championships.
Now, one of the things that I do like is Darnell Wright was the guy you drafted on tape was the guy you put in the position to play the position he had on tape. Everybody saw what they got there.
Makes it easier, doesn't it?
You didn't mix it up. You didn't try to change anybody. You didn't fall in love with relative athletic score. Or maybe you did, but all of it reflected the same individual. So I got no beef with that pick.
But how many picks do you really have beef with when they're that high in the draft?
That's why this yearā Well, I mean, we're debating Roman Dunzay at 9 and Darnell Wright was 10.
No, that's fair. That's fair. And I think Rome has the ability to come back and look like a No. 9 overall pick if he works on, you know, the thing Ben Johnson said, work on catching the football. That's his primary job is to catch the football. It's catch the football and get open. And usually when you get open, you get more opportunities to catch the football.
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