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A year ago, Poles was with the Chiefs as they plotted to overhaul their offensive line. The first of many moves was signing guard Joe Thuney to a five-year, $80 million, deal. The Bears are going to need a guard if they don’t re-sign James Daniels, who will be an unrestricted free agent and could command upward of $10 million per season, and they’ll likely look to provide competition for or replace center Sam Mustipher. There is a good crop of guards and centers slated to reach free agency , plus the possibility of left tackle options such as Terron Armstead, Orlando Brown and Cam Robinson.

“I’m sitting in a seat that there’s only 32 of these positions available,” he said. “And that’s a very fortunate place to be sitting. You know what? Have I worked hard to get to this point, yes. But I’m very young. I’m going to enjoy the position I’m in, and I’m going to enjoy the people that I work with. Because we’re really lucky, we’re really lucky to be doing what we do, and there is a lot of responsibility, there’s a lot of work to be done.”

Triantos, who turned 19 in January, reclassified to be draft eligible a year earlier, and it paid off when the Cubs selected him in the second round in 2021 out of James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., in suburban Washington, D.C. He received an over-slot $2.1 million signing bonus to forgo his college commitment to the University of North Carolina.

It came through clear eyes and without emotional attachments. There were, after all, many reasons major changes were being made at Halas Hall. And Poles had no reservations about sharing his appraisal in a direct, detailed manner that immediately resonated with the five-person committee the Bears had assembled to run interviews for prospective general managers and head coaches.

Everything went wrong for the Bulls, who committed a five-second violation coming out of their own timeout in the first quarter. They coughed up eight turnovers by halftime. In the third quarter, the defense just watched as Tyler Herro chucked a full-court pass to Jimmy Butler, who snatched the ball in the paint between two defenders before dumping it off to Caleb Martin for a wide-open layup.