Matt Spiegel

So they go and they get Bradbury.

So what do you have with Bradbury?

We talked to Olin about it, but we also talked to Brandon Thorne about it.

And Brandon Thorne is great at talking about the middle of the offensive line.

And he gave us some real talk on what the step down is skill level wise between Drew Dahlman and Garrett Bradbury.

Functional, at least, at the end of that.

Doesn't feel great.

Olin said some similar things on Twitter.

He was working through it, and I think people didn't quite understand what he was saying, where he was explaining that he thinks that Bradbury and Dahlman are similar but not the same.

That, like Brandon Thorne is saying, that it's a step down at least, but...

you do know that Bradbury is capable of doing some of the stuff from a movement standpoint that Drew Dallman did, but maybe isn't doing it at what was last year an elite level that Dallman was doing it at.

All right, so you don't have to change your playbook.

You don't have to ask a lot of different things out of the blocking schemes and sort of the group approach from the centers.

But you might have to ask your running backs to keep an extra eye on the middle so they can chip if need be or pick up somebody who runs free, something like that.

You might also need to think about a team trying to attack you

up the middle, either if they have a real stout defensive tackle or maybe sending a linebacker on a mug blitz, something like that, right?

There'll be some different kind of attacks, I think, that the Bears will have to be ready for.

It might just be sitting a heavy nose tackle on top of Garrett Bradbury and being like, block him.

Which, to be fair, teams did to Drew Dallman at the end of last year as well.

You're right.