Nam Y. Huh/AP
PHOENIX — Say this for the Bears: when they revamped their front office a year ago, they took from the best.
Ryan Poles had been employed by the Chiefs for 12 years — starting as a scouting assistant and working his way up —when the Bears named him their general manager. Poles quickly made his first hire: Ian Cunningham, who had spent the previous five years with the Eagles. Poles even created a new title to help lure him away: assistant general manager.
Poles had been to two Super Bowls with the Chiefs, and Cunningham one with the Eagles.