Ryan Poles' contract situation could hover over Bears' coaching search

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00:00Ryan's contract situation is part of that conversation that there are people that

00:03have reservations about A, either marrying up with a general manager who's on unsteady ground,

00:08or B, marrying up with a general manager who would be in line to get a contract extension

00:13from a team president without necessarily having justifiable reason to give him a contract

00:19extension. So how do you sort through that if you're the bears trying to figure out the best

00:24path to hiring the best coach when you have this very complicating factor with the general manager?

00:28Yeah, I think if they find the right coach and the right coach believes that this is the

00:36situation for them, I don't think it's going to be complicated. Like if they feel like they're

00:44all on board, like if it aligns, right? And I'm talking about a two-way street here, right?

00:52I'm talking about from the top down to the bottom up, right? If they feel like,

01:00hey, I can work with this guy. If they run into a situation like that, if that's what they can

01:07find, I don't think it's a complicating factor. Like you work it out then.

01:17But what if it is? What if you have a candidate that you really,

01:20really like and they say, I don't know about this.

01:21Yeah, then you got to make a move. Then you got to make a move. I mean, this isn't like,

01:27I don't think it's rocket science. Kevin clearly has the juice. He wants the juice. He wants

01:37to be out in front on stuff routinely at House Hall. He wants to be a face of the franchise,

01:45and that's fine. So if the coach that he ultimately sees is the guy that they've got to have,

01:56if he wants to pull the trigger on the GM, I'm sure George McCaskey would allow him to do that.

02:04But I think their hope is that they find something where everybody's sort of aligned, and then it

02:12works itself out pretty easily, I would believe.