I brought this up a couple of days ago stating that we don’t know how much power Kevin Warren has and was laughed at. I thought he only had control over the management (stadium, revenue being brought in, etc) side of the bears, but maybe not. Thoughts?
The telling part of this account is that Warren might want to get more involved in football operations. Read between the lines, that means he wasn’t brought in to be part of football operations. I think this is a case a National writer who doesn’t really know the power structure of the Bears. Warren was brought in to handle the business end of the Bears in general and the stadium in particular. Poles was hired with the idea that he runs the football side of things. Warren isn’t a “football guy” in the sense that he played, coached or scouted. He ran the business end of things with the Vikings and was Big Ten Commissioner. So he knows more than the average fan but nowhere near what someone like Poles does.
I think the only way you will see Warren step in is if he wants Jim Harbaugh and Poles doesn’t. I doubt that happens, one because I could see Poles and Harbaugh working together and two because Warren and Harbaugh didn’t have a particularly good relationship when Warren was in the Big Ten.