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The moves a general manager makes speak louder than anything he says into a microphone, and the message from Ryan Poles this offseason has been as clear as could be: The Bears want to maximize whatever they can possibly be this season.
They talked about that last August, but it was the world’s worst-kept secret that the upcoming season would be a burn year in their rebuild. It would’ve been counterintuitive to add veterans, especially pricey ones, to a team that was going nowhere.
Poles reinforced the shift from demolition to actual construction, though, when he signed defensive end Yannick Ngakoue and tight end Marcedes Lewis a week or so into training camp.