Bears select Dillon Thieneman in 1st round of NFL Draft! | Take The North
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Who did the Bears select in the first round of the NFL Draft?
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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 my man, Dan Wiederer of The Athletic. I am Mark Brody of 104.3 The Score. And Dan, I would call it a fortuitous... I would use the word excellent to describe what the Bears were able to get done in night one of the draft.
And that is to draft at number 25 in the first round.
What are the initial reactions to Dillon Thieneman's selection?
The second best safety in the draft in Dylan Thienemann out of Oregon. He was available, Dan. That was, I don't know how you felt, and I should make it clear here, I am in downtown Chicago right now. Dan has been at the Bears draft headquarters in Hallas Hall, taking in all the reaction from out there. What was the reaction? What is your reaction to the Bears getting Dylan Thienemann, who we'll talk all about, who is an absolutely excellent safety out of Oregon, played at Purdue as well?
Yeah, Mark, it's so interesting because we talked obviously for weeks and really months about this intriguing list of options that the Bears would likely have available to them at number 25. And you felt like the menu was going to be really nice when they came on the clock. That was certainly the case here tonight. I don't think either one of us expected Dylan Thienemann to be there.
How does Dillon Thieneman fit into the Bears' defense?
And so you and I, I think, both had mocked Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, the safety from Toledo to the Bears, with the understanding that we felt like Thienemann would go earlier. Ryan Polz tonight said that as they ran all their countless simulations, that it was about 50-50. About half the time Thienemann was there, half the time he wasn't. So there was no way they were banking on this being an option available to them. But when it was, it felt like an absolute must in pulling the trigger and bringing in a safety with proven playmaking production, With size, range, versatility, violence, and then just the character fit that we've talked about for a while. You heard Jeff King say it the other day. They want competitors.
They want guys who are very passionate and driven to be the best that they can be at football. And Thienemann checks a lot of boxes.
What qualities make Dillon Thieneman a good safety?
And the other thing that I'll say before I turn it back over to you is we talked on our Take the North Live episode about – wanting an adrenaline rush on night one of the draft but also wanting to be able to get a good night's sleep and feeling like you got a sure thing i think the bears are going to go to bed here on thursday night feeling like that not you know as sure of a thing as the draft can provide you feel like you've got a guy that's slotted and slated to be a week one starter for you and should bring everything to the table that's going to make him a contributor in your program for a while
Yeah, and Ryan Paul, to be clear, said what they have to say is that he will compete for the job, but one would suspect that he's going to have the foot forward, so to speak. That would be the indication. obviously drafting this guy where he was. And I want to get back to another word we need to use when we describe Dylan Thienemann in a second. But just to illustrate how kind of unexpected, I guess it was, that there were so many players on the board at 25 that the Bears could have taken that we didn't know where they were going to go.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who did the Bears select in the first round of the NFL Draft?
0:00–1:28
2
What are the initial reactions to Dillon Thieneman's selection?
1:28–2:19
3
How does Dillon Thieneman fit into the Bears' defense?
2:19–3:05
4
What qualities make Dillon Thieneman a good safety?
3:05–4:28
5
What were the Bears' other options at pick 25?
4:28–5:20
6
How did the Bears' draft strategy evolve during the selection process?
5:20–6:45
7
What are the expectations for Thieneman's rookie season?
6:45–7:23
8
What does the future hold for the Bears after this draft?
7:23–24:37
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