00:00But in my mind, what's happened this offseason is the Bears are really shifting toward the
00:05evolution of the Bears under Ben Johnson. This is shifting toward a franchise that wants to
00:11really lean into and immerse itself in being all about drafting, developing, and coaching.
00:19I think that this time where you go out and you spend and you make the mega deal for,
00:26they're still spending a lot of money. It's the NFL. You've got a $300 million salary cap.
00:30So you have ample funds to spend and invest. You need those kind of players, the blue players,
00:36if you will. But they let a lot of blue players walk out the door because they believe in their
00:41ability to draft and develop based on, primarily, last year's draft class, which influenced greatly
00:48this year's offseason plan. When you have success from Colson Loveland, Luther Burden III,
00:54Ozzy Trapillo, and Kyle Monunga specifically, you revamped your offense through the draft,
01:00and you were a viable playoff team because of it. That imbued them with confidence that they now
01:08are using to justify not getting carried away with Max Crosby, not getting carried away in free agency,
01:16not going after an edge rusher and overpaying a guy for two good years.
01:20They are willing to risk all of that to go into the draft and do for their defense what they
01:27did
01:27for their offense, in my mind, because they believe in Dennis Allen. How often have we heard,
01:32we kind of kid about it, Dennis Allen guy. They believe in Ben Johnson. They believe in Al Harris
01:38and the staff.
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