Dan Wiederer

You're going to be relying on a lot of young players, guys that have to materialize into who they thought they were.

The Bears are who we thought they were.

Yeah, we had a 10-15 showtime here today.

We got to talk to Cole Komet, Kobe Bryant, and Garrett Bradbury, and Caleb is the headliner of the show, and he's been significantly delayed with meetings, and hopefully we'll get to hear from him before the day's up.

There's two things that I like about draft weekend.

Number one is it's scheduled, right?

Like an unlike free agency where things can happen at any time of any day, you know, when the draft starts on Thursday and you know, roughly when it ends on Saturday.

And so there's a lot that happens in that period of, I guess it's like 47 hours from, from start to finish.

And you're just kind of in it, you know, you're, you're going through the currents pretty quickly and rapidly.

And

surfing with the team, the directions that they go in the draft.

And so that part's fun.

And as Grody knows, I love it when the draft ends because all of the off-season roster speculation and the guessing games on who's going to be here and who's going to not be here are pretty much over.

You're like 95% of the way to having your roster ready to go to training camp.

And that part's fun because then you can just start analyzing the actual team that they have assembled instead of playing all these games about who they might or might not have.

Yeah, I mean, that's the first step in the process, right?

You exercise that fifth year option.

And remember, that changed a couple years ago to, you know, there used to be little risk in exercising the fifth year option.

And then in the latest CBA, that becomes guaranteed.

The fourth year becomes guaranteed on the contract and everything goes from there as well.