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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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bears fans this is take the north what's the reason duck it's here with your host of these guys dan weederer the whole key to sustaining success in this league is to have a quarterback play that is top tier and can consistently push you down those roads and mark grody we're allowed to at this point bears fans are allowed to right now dream big and predict what you want out of the season we're going to take the north and never give it back
Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to the Take the North podcast, along with Dan Weider of The Athletic. I am Mark Rohde of 670 The Score. Actually, now we're FM2. We're 104.3 The Score. How about all that, Dan? Yeah, it feels like a big day in our landscape, I guess, the media landscape here in Chicago. Obviously, you're a big part of that today. Huge news for the SCORE radio station.
And I want to get a little bit more into your day and how your first day was and some of the maybe extracurricular field trips you might have taken associated with this big change.
Yes, and for people who are not quite sure what we are talking about, the score, the station for which I work, the station for which Dan contributes frequently, which, as you knew, as Chicago Sports Radio 670, the score, and still may know it that way, we officially went to an FM signal to go along with AM and FM. So we are an AM, FM signal. So we have the best of both worlds.
It just makes us even more powerful. You can now hear us in a bigger, fuller, bassier sound if you're just into the sound part. But the other part is that you can now, when you're downtown around all the big buildings in Chicago, that it is radio hell down there. If you're on Lower Wacker, it's a non-starter. If you're getting your car washed, it's a non-starter.
FM can force its way through that, and so you will still get the opportunity to hear us now when you're downtown. So still on 670, still on 104.3, still talking lots of Bears. Here's what I need to know. When I pull into the North Garage at Soldier Field, I'm usually listening to the score pregame show, and it'll go out.
As soon as I scan my little QR code and that gate pops open, if I'm 104.3, am I going to be able to ā Finish that parking job before I have to give up the score. It's a beautiful thing. That is such a great example and such a great usage because, yes, parking garages. And I had the same conundrum every time I pulled out of there.
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Chapter 2: What impact will Declan Doyle's departure have on the Bears?
Well, maybe that's the receipt I should go to, the Danny Parkins receipts. You handled that pretty well. That was pretty good. I heard that on the radio and I was reminded. I know you guys had a thing. I had forgotten that the topic was learning how to win. And then it all came back to me. It all came back to me because I was part of it. I was in that media room as well.
I don't remember exactly where I was on the whole thing, but that was hilarious. But Potsy, and we can talk about that too if you want, but Potsy did say without hesitating, Sid Luckman, the greatest Bears quarterback ever. Without hesitation, too. There was no hesitation on that.
Thanks for bringing that full circle because that was a discussion that needed to be brought full circle for a little while. My ultimate conclusion on that topic after we sounded it out on the podcast and then during transition on the score last week was it's just a silly conversation to have because the Bears need to be aiming higher. Initially, I was like, I don't hate the premise.
I hate the prematurity of it. And I ultimately landed on the conclusion of like, Who cares? Because like the Bears have been so lost at the quarterback position that Caleb Williams gives you a chance to have a different conversation, which is can he next year be one of the top eight in the league? Right. Can he be one of the top four in the league?
And that's that's that's where that conversation needs to go rather than comparing whether the brand of football he plays would have translated to the 40s. Right. And Luckman could have survived, you know, under center and watching Max Crosby or Miles Garrett come at him. Right.
Like like it's just a it's a comparison game that will never be able to get your arms around because it's just there's too many different eras and too many different factors. And so my whole thing is like, let's just change the target here on the Caleb Williams discussion. And I think we'll be all I'll be better off for it. Right now, I was complicit. I allowed the topic to happen.
It's a good topic. It works. I'm not regretting that we did the topic. I have no regrets whatsoever. But my conclusion to it was it was too early to do this topic. It was too like, it's like not necessary to do the topic. Fun topic, lots of opinions, but it was just, it's too early. It's too early.
You and Marshall Harris were having a spirited back and forth and I appreciated you kind of digging in and being the, what do you call it? The counterpoint, I guess. Yeah. You're just playing a role of devil's advocate. Well, it wasn't really like straight up devil's advocacy. It was more like, let's just make sure, let me say this out loud.
So I because I want to hear I want to make sure I want somebody to shoot me down on Jim McMahon. Shoot me down on Jay Cutler. Shoot me down on Eric Kramer. Shoot me down on a 400 yard Jim Miller game or season season. But you you would use the analogy with Marshall on like it's like meeting a girl and then wanting to propose to her right away. Yeah. Well, wait a minute.
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Chapter 3: What qualities should the Bears look for in a new offensive coordinator?
I got an FM attitude over here, man. It will not only be our season predictions and review episode. It will be our last episode of Take the North if we decide to expose ourselves. I don't know. What are the rules on podcast? I don't even know what the rules are. There aren't rules. There's no rules in life anymore. No, no, they're not. You can do whatever you want. Do whatever you want.
Contact, get me Dionne Miller. What are the rules for that? Because she keeps us on the up and up on this podcast. No cursing. No, there's just the cursing part. She doesn't want us exposed either. Trust me. Definitely not. Definitely not. She doesn't need that. Nobody needs that. For, I'm going to stop talking now. For Dan Weterer of The Athletic and of The Score.
For our executive producer, Adam Sosinski. I am Mark Grody of 104.3 FM. The Score saying thank you so much for listening to and watching the Take the North podcast. Great talk. See you out there. Thank you, everybody.