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Before Bears general manager Ryan Poles walked into the Halas Hall press conference room Tuesday morning, the table and two chairs on the dais were replaced by a podium and a microphone.
Poles would be the main event. And he’d be speaking alone.
He did for 26 minutes Tuesday. President/CEO Kevin Warren assumed the role of his predecessor Ted Phillips, taking questions in the corner of an adjacent room when Poles was finished. Warren spoke for just 11 minutes — about three minutes longer than the opening statement he gave the last time the two stumbled in trying to present their shared vision for the Bears.