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00:00One of the things Rick that I was struck by was you talking about because we had you know, we're media members
00:05We try to envision when the Bears tell us there's gonna be all these people involved in the interview from the Bears side
00:10It's gonna be so many different windows of a say a zoom call or something
00:14But the way you laid it out
00:15You said the first thing that happened was a one-on-one with Ryan poles and Ben Johnson and they kind of got in got out
00:21And they felt very comfortable with each other
00:24Is that to say that that was the the onus for him wanting to take that job
00:29Before talking even to George McCaskill Kevin Warren and the rest of the game because I always said hey they both were at BC
00:35They're the same age. Basically, there's gonna be an easy
00:39Relatability just from that angle
00:41Yeah, so I don't want to blow Dan Bernstein's mind right now. Yeah do that, please
00:47But I'm going to
00:49This is the best process I've seen in a heck of a long time from any team in the national football
00:54Wow, how about all right, how about it because they were here's what they did, you know, and and and
01:03That that meeting between Ryan Poles and Ben Johnson that one-on-one was so important
01:08Because they had to come out feeling good about each other and giving them that forum to do it under NFL rules where you can
01:14Only do it virtually
01:16Was was absolutely fantastic and it's the only team that does something like that
01:21Then they moved into their group process and that group was very small
01:25It was it was George McCaskill. It was Kevin Warren. It was Ted Cruz
01:30It was Ryan Poles and it was Jeff King. That's it. Oh, so Liz Geist wasn't on that initial interview. Oh
01:37Liz Geist a she's an HR. Yeah. Oh Liz. Yeah Liz was there but but she wasn't saying anything. I got you
01:42yeah, yeah, she was there but
01:45But and that was it man, it was football everything was about football, you know, they didn't ask him, you know
01:52If you were a tree in the forest, what tree would you be?
01:55This is not the combine is what you're saying
02:01Now they just talked ball man and and
02:05Envision in alignment and and then it's concluded with a one-on-one with Georgian and and Kevin
02:12To so that there was that same comfort, you know, can they get comfortable with each other etc