Hello welcome to the emergency the Vikings have a general manager and it's not the

guy that we thought was going to be the general manager podcast, Matthew Coller,

Sam Ekstrom here. Ryan Poles, the director of player personnel from the Kansas City Chiefs,

has chosen Chicago. Went for his second interview with the Chicago Bears, and he elects to become their general manager, which means that Koesi Adafo Menza, the football ops vice president from the Cleveland Browns will be the next Minnesota Vikings general manager.

Sam Ekstrom of course here and Sam, before we break down why Ryan Poles would have picked Chicago, which job is better, what this says for the future, and all those things.

Let me just tell you what I know from talking with people over the last few days about this, which was on

Saturday, I reported that Ryan Poles was the number one for the Vikings.

Jason Lockonfora also reported that, but he was still going to take the interview in Chicago.

Yesterday, after we had talked for the podcast all about what Ryan Poles would do at

quarterback, I was told that Chicago is so high on polls they don't want to let him leave the building and

from there that was all that I heard and then today around noon we get the report that they indeed did not let Ryan Poles leave the building

so that's that but I would also say I mean that's how it went down is the Vikings liked him

the Bears liked him and The Bears liked him and the bears

apparently gave him the better offer or made the better pitch and so he is now going to

become the GM of the Chicago Bears. And so I would say that as we have talked about all along,

both of these candidates are very well qualified.

They're both highly thought of around the league.

It is though interesting that Ryan Poles didn't come back for the

Vikings second interview. He went to Chicago and he chose them over the Vikings. And by the the way I'm already seeing some reports that

Adafo Menso was their guy the whole time

then why did they have polls coming back for a second interview

i'm just saying like this is what sp would do in the draft. He would say

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