Ryan Poles spoke but didn't take questions — should he have?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes reacted to Bears general manager Ryan Poles holding a short press conference but refusing to take questions Tuesday as the team reported to training camp. What does it tell us that Poles didn't take questions?

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0:00.0	The football season.
0:01.9	My budget season.
0:05.5	Before we get to the football season, I should have mentioned that our visits are pleasant visits with Nico Horner.
0:12.2	Are sponsored by Huntington, home of asterisk-free checking.
0:16.6	More at Huntington.com slash your money.
0:20.8	Somehow it's football season.
0:23.1	And there are certain things that register with me in the middle of baseball season as,
0:30.4	I don't care.
0:31.8	I don't care.
0:33.5	But then there are certain things that I'm like, oh boy, it's football season.
0:37.9	And that's just me.
0:39.4	For you, I think that threshold is different in terms of what registers.
0:44.0	And this is our ongoing relationship and partnership in focus here.
0:48.3	But today is a day that the GM steps up, the coach steps up, a bunch of players step up, it's hard not to realize it's football season. It was really weird this morning. I'm getting ready for the show, so I'm sitting on the couch and I'm on my laptop. Looking around the regular places, I look for things. And I'm like, all right, now it's time to get local. Let me see what's going on sometimes.
1:13.0	Let me see what's going on in the Tribune.
1:19.2	I open up the Tribune sports section, and there's a picture of me and the rest of the assembled media talking to Jay Cutler on Report Day in 2009.
1:24.3	That's hilarious.
1:25.6	The great Phil Velasquez took the picture.
1:28.5	It's on my Instagram if you want to check it out at Lawrence W. Holmes.
1:31.9	That's funny.
1:32.7	It's on the Tribune's website as of this morning.
1:34.9	Like it's crazy because they did a whole story on like players bringing stuff to camp,
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