Ryan Poles explained why they traded DJ Moore | Take The North
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The second biggest thing to me was hearing what Ryan Poles had to say about DJ Moore. DJ Moore, of course, traded to the Buffalo Bills to play with Josh Allen for a second round pick. Ryan Poles was asked, why was DJ Moore expendable? You'll hear the follow up to on Poles commenting on what they got in return the second round pick. You had to give DJ the extension.
What happened in the two years between then and now? Is it more about the growth of the team around him that made him expendable? Yeah. Or was there another reason?
Yeah. You know, like I said, we're always looking at there's a financial piece of it, but you're also looking at the room. And when you have Rome Madunze and how talented he is, I know he went through some injuries last year. You look at what Luther did. Again, that's why you follow the draft board. I did not expect Luther Berger to be where he was. And he showed up and showed some big-time flashes. Every time that dude touches the ball, special things can happen. And then obviously our tight end is a special player as well. So with that said, you know, you have to look at different moves that are going to help you continue to build your football team. And that's what we felt like was best.
In terms of the return for him, what was the market like? And were you obviously pretty pleased you were able to get it to go forward?
Yeah, there's quite a few teams that were interested. I probably a little bit different when it comes to trades. There's opportunity to put DJ in a really cool spot for him to have success. Unfortunately, we have to play him next year. But I think for his career, for that team, I think it's a. I told one of my friends, I'm from Western New York, and I said, my immediate family is not very happy with me. My extended family is very happy with me. So, yeah, we wish him well.
I think this one's pretty simple to me, Adam, and he said kind of what we've all been saying, and I'll just say the three names he just said, Luther Burden, Roma Dunze, and he referred to him as a pretty special tight end. That would be Colston Loveland, to whom he was referring, and a second-round pick. I couldn't ask for more than a second-round pick for DJ Moore. He became expendable because there's a lot of young talent in that room, and the Bears needed salary cap space, and they needed another second-round pick right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The second round pick in return was when I saw that, I was like, oh, wow, I did not. I thought they were going to have trouble getting a third for him, honestly, because of his. Yeah, because of his because of his contract, which is still for his type of player, an extremely reasonable contract. Right. I mean, that's a that's a good number for a player like DJ Moore. but it is still a 20 plus million dollar cap hit and so when you're taking that on as a team you know you're not going to be willing to give up a ton right so so yeah second round pick for is a later second round pick but still a second round pick for for him was a great return and i think that's a that's a deal that you look at for both teams and both teams are like yeah like this makes sense for both of us right the bills are in a position that they they they want to
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