Ryan Poles and Kevin Warren on the Firing.mp4

Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles go over reasons why they fired Matt Eberflus and what's ahead.

Transcript

00:00So first, I just want to thank Kevin and George for their support and their alignment.

00:11As we all know, situations like these are very difficult when you build relationships

00:16with someone over a period of time, to let them go is tough, but I want to thank Coach

00:22Ibeflus for his efforts and his dedication while he was here, but at the end of the day,

00:27we just came up short too many times, we had to make a change.

00:31Two years ago, I was proud of the progress that we made from year one to year two, but

00:37disappointed we weren't able to stay on that track in year three.

00:41In terms of Thomas Brown, I'm excited for him.

00:45We love his direct leadership, his command, and his confidence.

00:49It will be diligent, we will do it the right way, and one of the things that we have to

00:55keep in mind, there are certain policies and procedures that are set forth by the National

00:59Football League, and we need to follow those, and we will follow those, but when you look

01:06at the assets of the Chicago Bears, why am I so excited about this opportunity to work

01:12with Ryan, about finding our permanent head football coach here, is number one, we have

01:19the greatest fans that I talked about earlier.

01:22They are passionate.

01:23I appreciate and embrace that passion.

01:26Secondly, is that we have a great tradition of the Chicago Bears.

01:32It is really special in all of sports.

01:35We're going to have plenty of salary cap space.

01:39We have a young, talented roster.

01:42We have strong draft capital in the upcoming draft, and we have a quarterback in Caleb

01:47Williams who's shown he is very special, and in the right environment, he can become

01:53even more special than he already has shown.