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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Ryan Poles addresses Bears' pursuit of Maxx Crosby

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened and reacted to the highlights of Bears general manager Ryan Poles’ media session Thursday.

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0:00.0

Holmes.

0:00.5

Freddie Gibbs, thank you so much for coming on speaking on.

0:02.5

Yes, sir.

0:03.0

And Holmes on the score. What a pleasure. Thank you, sir. Hey, man, I love the score, man. I've been rocking with it still with the Sports Radio 820 back in the 90s. That's how you cut a promo, sir. Afternoons on the score. The Don, as I call them, polls, chef poles. All right.

0:21.8

The Bears brought a bunch of free agents in.

0:26.2

They had press conferences.

0:28.1

They talked about kind of where things stand.

0:30.1

So let's walk you through some of it.

0:33.4

Drew Dalman retired.

0:35.3

That was a shock to everyone.

0:37.3

And then the Bears traded DJ Moore.

0:39.8

This is what Ryan Poles had to say about that.

0:42.4

I think there's a common theme with the guys that we brought in.

0:47.0

One, we wanted to get faster and more explosive.

0:49.7

And I think we did that.

0:50.8

I know we did that.

0:52.1

What guys that are passionate about football that play our style and our brand of football,

0:56.8

and I know we did that, especially the leadership to continue to enhance our roster

1:01.6

so that we can continue to push forward via championship caliber team.

1:05.0

I know we got better through this phase.

1:08.0

Obviously, there's a lot of things that are unexpected that happen in this job.

1:12.6

Drew being one of them, that retirement was a little bit of a pop-up on us. I want to respect him and

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