GM Ryan Poles says Bears not 'panicking' after turmoil amid 0-2 start to season

One day after Justin Fields' pair of media sessions, Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles took his turn at the podium on Thursday.

While it may feel like the walls are crashing down around the Bears after two weeks, two losses and the resignation of defensive coordinator Alan Williams, Poles believes the organization is built to withstand the quake.

"To hit it straight on, we have adversity right now. Slow start, 0-2, not where you want to be," Poles told reporters. "We've dealt with life issues, we've dealt with injuries and that's all real and that's a part of what we do and what we've got to deal with. The beautiful thing about our philosophy here, our organization is we're solution-oriented. We work together to find these solutions and solve our problems to get everything back on track.

"To make it really, really clear, I know the outside noise, but no one in our building is panicking, no one is flinching at any situations. Not our owner, not our president, not our head coach, not myself, none of our players -- everyone's focused on solving the issues that we have so that we can be a better football team.

"[Bears head coach Matt Eberflus] and I were talking about last night, like, we've both been through slow starts, rough starts and gotten things back on track -- in our background, him with Indy in 2018, myself in Kansas City in 2015. Sometimes you have these and you've got to fight through it and figure out how you can be a better football team."

Because of the Bears' ugly start, the seat upon which Eberflus rests is warming. It also doesn't help that Chicago's offseason -- a positive step forward in roster construction -- built up outsized hype for these Bears, who are understandably struggling to live up to