It sounds like Ryan Poles is open for business when to comes to DJ Moore
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Rahimi Harrison-Grody. Bears tight end Cole Komet. Cole, welcome to the party, pal. Well, thanks for having me. I heard it was a big day, so naturally I dropped everything I had going on today.
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This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. You know, there's a metaphor about being chosen in this song that may or may not apply because when we talk about the combine, there's a little bit of that process going on. Then there's also the business of what happens to people who are on your team. And I feel like that is very much the discussion going on in Indianapolis. We heard from Ben Johnson. We heard from Ryan Poles. And then they also had side sessions with reporters talking to them additionally about some of the non-podium questions that everybody wanted to know.
I love a little side piece. Let's ride.
Lunch is over. Time for a little side piece. The fun on the Rahimi Harris-Grody show today is on a high level. So this is big. Bears general manager Ryan Poles, in one of those side sessions at the Combine today, was asked whether the Bears would entertain moving DJ Moore and his contract. Listen in.
I got a... have conversations and kind of see what, like I said, the best combination of players we can bring in. We want him here. We think highly of him. He's a great teammate. He's been productive pretty consistently over the last couple of years that he's been here. So I have nothing but great things to say about him. But this is the time now where we have to look at all the different scenarios and see what can allow us to put the best team out there. And I've talked about this before, it's just, there's relationships there, there's a lot there that make it really difficult. But he's a guy we want here, but we have to look at all different scenarios.
That may be the most pointed statement Ryan Poles has made to date on DJ Moore. We did not hear as detailed of a statement from Ben Johnson. But Poles also, I feel like, just expanded on kind of where he left off in that season-ending press conference when he did say we have decisions to make there. Mark, I see you nodding. I know you're remembering it as well. Yes. This even sounds less committed than that. And Poles isn't hiding anything in this either. Yep, yep. This was the early part of the end of the season press conference where he said it was similarly vague. The only difference was last time he talked about how this guy is tough as nails and everybody looks up to him and all that. But... There are realities in the NFL.
So you're right. Ben Johnson did not say it as loudly, I guess, would be a way to put it right there. But I would also say, and we talked about Ben Johnson earlier, Ben Johnson, as I said, certainly did not rule anything out either as it pertains to DJ Moore.
How would you... describe a player that you want to maintain trade value and or possibly bring back into the fold of your own organization. That way? Exactly. That's my point here. Yeah. Poles is threading that needle pretty well on that question. I definitely understand what you're saying about he sounded more like it was a possibility for him to be moved, but at the same time saying, yo, we know what DJ Moore is. There's a reason I gave him all the money. I mean, that wasn't that long ago. So... I am interested to see how this plays out. I'm interested to see the abacuses out at House Hall. I'm interested to see how they navigate. by prioritizing what's the most important, by figuring out what they can live with, by having those internal conversations, Ben Johnson, Dennis Allen.
I want to know the formula right now, what they believe, and then to see how they fulfill the formula once they figure out what they want to do, how close they can get to getting it done that way.
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