Bears general manager Ryan Poles inherited a team with a long list of deficiencies and has ample salary-cap space with which to address them.
So why isn’t he doing anything?
As other teams splashed money all over the place during the first two days of free agency, the Bears have been mostly quiet. They picked up former Bengals defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi on a three-year, $40.5 million deal Monday, but otherwise seem to be waiting for the market to get a little more manageable.
And that’s prudent of Poles. He seems smart enough to avoid the mistake his predecessor Ryan Pace made by failing to acknowledge that he had a mediocre team.