and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along with

ESPN Chicago Bears reporter Courtney Cronin who is returning from the NFL combine. Courtney, how are the bears?

You know, it doesn't feel all that dissimilar from the time I was covering the Vikings except that I know very little about this team and I'm swimming upstream and I'm not H-B-I-C like I was with you and I.

So, I'm kidding. There's a lot. It's been great. I mean the first week on the beat I think I started literally yeah a week ago today. It's been great. People have been incredibly kind. I got a chance to get in front of some people from the organization at the combine which was really helpful. I figured if there's a good time to make a switch, it's probably when everyone else is brand new.

I mean there's a new coach, there's a new GM, very similar to that in Minnesota, except I don't have the

institutional knowledge

that I'm trying to build right now of,

okay, well, where's this team going

based on the last few seasons?

And it's not hard to do.

It's just a matter now of reading a ton and really trying to talk to people to be like,

all right, what went wrong during the Matnaggy era?

Why did Alan Robinson have a fractured relationship with this team?

It's really just trying to get myself up to speed on issues like that so I can be well versed in this team. But no, I mean, it's been really, really fun to get to be home. I mean, I've only been home for a couple days because like you I was at the Indianapolis I was in Indianapolis for the scouting combine all week last week and I'm still recovering because those are late nights and I'm very tired.

Yeah, when you get back from that, it's always like it takes a couple of days to get back in the mode.

Well, Eastern time throws you off anyway.

I mean, if you're staying out until 3 a.m. Eastern time it's just like what is even going on with my life when you return.

But I want to know about your first impressions of the Bears new leadership because like you said I mean you're not dropping in where everybody else knows

everything about the coach and the general manager you're dropping into a situation as a reporter where

you're learning the same as the other reporters are.

So they may know more about the 50 second man on the roster,

but they don't know more about Matt Eberfus

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