Bears don't receive compensatory draft picks for Ian Cunningham's departure
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | That's what's best to help incentivize, then that's what they wanted to do. |
| 0:05.2 | But at the end of the day, like I said, that's not the purpose of why we develop our staff. |
| 0:10.0 | But if that's the rule that have been placed, then I think it's very clear in the situation on what should happen. |
| 0:15.0 | But we'll see what they think. |
| 0:18.4 | Apparently, what the NFL has thought is that the Bears are not deserving of compensatory |
| 0:23.1 | picks this year, next year for Ian Cunningham becoming the general manager of the Atlanta Falcons. |
| 0:29.5 | Our guy Chris Emma had the story. |
| 0:32.1 | I retweeted it. |
| 0:33.7 | He went through the list of the compensatory picks and the bears are not in there. |
| 0:38.1 | There have been others that have confirmed that too. |
| 0:40.7 | I don't like it. |
| 0:42.4 | And the people know where I stand on this. |
| 0:45.1 | To me, and I talked about a little bit on House of Elle this weekend, |
| 0:49.7 | it's not even about the bears. |
| 0:52.0 | It's about what's right. |
| 0:53.8 | This is just a matter of doing the thing that's right. |
| 0:57.9 | The bears clearly, whether they were trying to or not, |
| 1:02.0 | and it sounds as if Ryan Poles is saying, |
| 1:05.9 | like, we're not necessarily trying to do this, |
| 1:07.8 | but we did this. |
| 1:09.5 | And you end up with a minority candidate getting a promotion and going to run the football |
| 1:15.8 | program in Atlanta, which the president of football operations has gone on the record and said, |
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