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GM Ryan Poles Backed a Glowing Bears Injury Report With Draft Actions
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GM Ryan Poles Backed a Glowing Bears Injury Report With Draft Actions

Chicago Bears On SI·Gene Chamberlain·about 1 month ago
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It's always better to have hope, but in the NFL GMs and coaches know it's preferable to be more reserved with comments than effusive about players' medical situations. Building false hopes can come back to bite you and open the way for eventual blame when something doesn't pan out as expected. Bears GM Ryan Poles has been around the game long enough to know this, so apparently he must really feel there is a reason to believe some of the injured Bears players are going to contribute this year to a greater extent than many projections. It can explain, in part, why the team took the route they did in free agency and the draft at tackle and edge rusher. They drafted no tackle. They drafted no edge rusher. Perhaps they'll sign a veteran edge and Poles did leave open that possibility but didn't say they would. The tackle solution will apparently come from either Braxton Jones, Jedrick Wills, Theo Benedet or Kiran Amegadjie. Actually, at least it will come from Jones, Wills, or Benedet.…

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