Ian Cunningham believes Bears should get compensatory picks for his exit
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How do the hosts feel about the current state of the Bears?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody, middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. We're going to take the North and never give it back.
This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. Was that the Ryan Poles take the North and never give it back? It feels like so long since that happened.
That he took the North or that he said it?
Yes.
We're recording the Shovels in the Ground podcast today, Dan Weider and I are. Is that the temporary title? Yeah.
Shovels in the Ground.
It doesn't sound as good. It doesn't. Whisper SSG like you did.
SSG. No. It doesn't work. Yeah, it doesn't work. But I do appreciate the target in the title in that we're going to have a new target every time that last target got accomplished. We'll just change the name to a new target. Exactly. Welcome to Hollis Harbor.
No.
If you missed the no, that was Ben Johnson, we think jovially, saying no regarding the possibility of Tyson Bajan being traded.
One of the texters said he saw the video, and the video looks like he was like a fake cough.
It was definitely a fake cough with a smile in the video, if you watched the video.
Okay, so he's letting you know that his no is real. Tyson Chandler, here's your hotel room.
No, he gets the sweet! tyson bagent you mean what did i say tyson chandler who i absolutely love you love the bulls grody i just i was just bringing i was just talking about tyson chandler with laurence holmes last week we're talking about how he had we're talking about eddie curry and tyson chandler and was like tyson chandler had a really nice career not the part with the bulls necessarily but he had a
nice career. He did have a really nice career.
In a career? No, he didn't, but he played for longer than I thought he had played.
He definitely played for a long time. And Eddie Curry is back home being a Bulls ambassador.
I like that. That makes me feel good. Good for you, Eddie Curry.
What are the percent chances that Tyson Bajan is a Bears ambassador when his career is over? I say 100.
He could be.
Unless he wants to stay in West Virginia.
98% I'd say that's strong. Oh, you were actually giving a percentage. Yeah, because it's pretty strong.
I do believe 98% is the answer.
Now, there is some actual business to get to from a lot of what we heard at the NFL Combine, and it was the first question that was asked to Ryan Poles. Well, he wasn't the only one who also discussed it. Ian Cunningham met the media at the Combine, and he said the Bears should get compensatory draft picks for him getting hired in Atlanta.
I haven't had much time to really dive into the wording of it. It was always my interpretation that if a general manager gets hired, that team would receive two third-round picks. I'm a general manager. I was hired. I would think that they would get two third-round picks. I don't know the wording of it. That's just my perspective. Again, I wouldn't be sitting here if it weren't for them giving me that job and helping me grow to get this job right now.
So in case you missed it earlier this morning, that's what Ian Cunningham had to say when it came to the Bears needing to get the compensatory draft picks. Ryan Poles also echoed that, and I thought that that was something that needed to be said by the both of them. That was the first question Ryan Poles was asked, and Ian Cunningham was also talked to about it as well.
It felt very concerted, Layla. It felt like there's big conversations. Those guys are buddies, and they probably are like, hey, are we not getting our picks? And then Ian kind of was like, yeah, what's going on? I was like, all right, don't worry. I got you.
In the first session with Ryan Poles today, he didn't quite commit to actually saying they have appealed it, but he did say that they have had conversations in regards to an appeal. So, like, for people wondering. I know a lot of people still are very interested in this story.
Or just salty.
Or just salty about it. And that's cool. Yeah, you're damn right. You're worth some compensatory picks.
Well, and Ryan Pohl's also adding, here's the frustrating part. Ryan Pohl shouldn't have to add his personal experience to this discussion.
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