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There’s no way the Bears wanted to hear what Ryan Poles told them when he interviewed to be general manager in 2022, but they had to know it was true.
He broadsided the team’s current condition and pitched a total rebuild, and considering they had just swept out predecessor Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy, chairman George McCaskey and his inner circle surely saw the same problems.
The predicament for Poles, also a serious candidate for the Giants and Vikings that year, was whether he truly believed the Bears were prepared to endure the losses that would pile up in the short term and give him time to construct it properly.