Here, Herb Howard, he is absolutely true.

What's that herb I'm sorry? Yeah, I got it. I got it. Our brother, Herb Howard, Barry's beat reporter for the bigs. He's in the building. Herb Howard, always a great football press conference question, ask her. Herb Howard and all the guys from the Biggs, and they're looking at me, they're shaking their heads at me. I was going to ask you, have you played receiver? You all are laughing.

He's the only one not laughing and you hear that baritone in the press

conferences you know that a good question is coming yeah that's a great point herb i i will say

that you you hit it right on the head there from the bigs herb howard is in the house right

it seemed like defensive line may have been a need coming into this draft.

A little situation where you guys just didn't view it the same way as quite as big a need, or if the board just didn't go down there with it. Yeah, the board. They got a pretty good food spread laid out kind of in this room behind me here. usually they do like a pizza thing or they'll get us like, you know, some food from some outside place. They actually cook for us from something in the kitchen here. And they got a pretty, pretty good spread. There's some steak. There's some chicken parms. I'm looking at Kaylin Sharkey and she's like killing it right now. So I don't know. I don't know there's going to be any...

She said don't put me on blast.

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Sir, thank you very much for being flexible and hanging with us and the coverage this weekend.

I'd love to know what it was like for you having to kind of simultaneously listen to what fans are asking

you Friday night about what the hell are the bears doing and then hearing the guys that are

making the decisions on what the hell the bears are doing.

Yeah, no, that's the job, right?

That's part of the process is, you know, to try to gather as much information from inside the building and then get that information out to the millions of Bears fans that really want to know what's going on.

And I think, you know, kind of playing that middle role is something I really enjoy.

It's something I appreciate. I don't take it for granted. There are some nuances to it to where you can't necessarily say everything that you know to the fans because some of the things you pick up that aren't necessarily on the record.

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