Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus talk strategy at the NFL Combine

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The NFL Combine is in full effect as teams get prepared for this year's NFL Draft including new Bears GM and head coach Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus. They speak to the media about what they are looking for and how they are looking to build. Ken Davis, Adam Hoge, and Alex Shapiro react to the comments made by the GM and coach on how they are attacking the combine, what they like about the current roster, and philosophy going forward.(2:20) - Ryan Poles speaks about the current roster(11:00) - Poles is looking to find a quicker and lighter offensive lineman(22:30) - Should the Bears trade Khalil Mack for more draft picks(30:00) - How will Ryan Poles handle Bears free agents like Allen Robinson?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:13.8	St. Xavier University,. I'm fortunate enough to be joined by our Bears Insider, Adam Pope. Make sure you check out all his articles on NBCSports.com slash Chicago slash bears.
0:41.2	Also, make sure you check out the Hogan Johns podcast.
0:44.0	And also our in-house writer Alex Shapiro, he has a nice article out right now talking
0:48.4	about 10 of the players the Bears may be viewing them in the upcoming draft.
0:51.9	So make sure you check that out.
0:52.9	How are you two gentlemen doing today?
0:58.1	I'm doing great, Ken. Good to to see good to get the gang back together it's been a while since we've all been all been here together it has been it's been too long um it been too long since
1:04.5	the combine was really going in indy this feels good uh i got the bench press behind me here
1:10.0	i don't know how much people could see it if they're watching on YouTube, but, you know, it feels like a normal combine, which was, this was the last place we were before the world shut down. Like, we always talk about that in hindsight. Like, there's like a 99.9% chance COVID existed at the last combine. We just didn't really know it yet.
1:30.1	And so then there wasn't one last year and then hopefully, you know, it's, it feels good. It feels like,
1:38.3	you know, the same event I've covered so many other years down here in Indianapolis and
1:42.5	things with Ryan Poles and
1:44.4	Matt Eberfluse today were what they've always been with the head coach and GM, just of course
1:48.3	new ones for the Bears. So it's good to be back in Indy. Ryan Post seemed a lot more comfortable
1:54.4	today than he did. And of course, the more that you're doing the job, you're going to get more
1:58.5	comfortable. But I liked his frankness on the things that he did talk about.
2:02.3	I found that kind of appealing.
2:04.3	And I'm not the biggest person to come down on Matt Iber Fluse with the coach talk or whatever.
2:07.9	But it was still good to see Brian Poles kind of open up and talk about some of the things that he wanted to do
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