Cassie Carlson talks DJ Moore trade, expectations for next Bears No. 1 WR
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Rahimi Harrison-Grody, middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. Hello, everyone, and welcome into First and North. I'm Cassie Carlson. Hey, everyone, welcome into Chicago Sports Tonight. Tina Nguyen and Cassie Carlson with you. How do you prioritize what you want to do with this roster? Do you work from top down, or how does that work from your standpoint? I think the first thing is getting together with my staff, understanding what the landscape looks like. Then the next thing is meeting with our coaches to make sure that we have alignment with what we need to have success and take our team to the next level. The wide receiver room under Ben Johnson just seemed to be heading in a different direction, and there's so many other needs that this Bears front office needs to address now in free agency, and it clears up $16.5 million in cap space that they're desperately going to need it.
With Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score. Love a good Rihanna song for the Cassie Carlson open. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grote on 104.3 The Score. Cassie Carlson is in studio with us for the hour.
How do the Bears prioritize roster changes?
Yeah, what did you think of the montage? I mean, Rihanna, I'm honored. I'm a Team Rihanna over Team Beyonce, so you guys knew me so well. I'm truly impressed. That was a Tyler Peterbaugh production. I know you like Rihanna and Grody. I do. Yeah. Hey, cheers to the freaking weekend. You know, they play that at every Bears game. And every time I hear it, I'm like, they do. Yeah. I noticed these kind of things. I have tuned out the music at Soldier Field because a lot of times I'm like, there's no new songs. Like, they're all oldies. That's true. There's no doubt about that. Like, I perk up for the Rihanna song. They play a steady flow of system of a down throughout the game. They do? They do. They do. They do. And then they play, what's this, a bear claw song?
That's your deodorant. Oh, yeah. That is my deodorant. But there is a bear. Oh, wow. was it there was something that i thought was something that had to do with claws or something i don't pay attention but but that's a good that's a great rihanna's got some good stuff absolutely cheers to the freaking weekend indeed and and shine bright like a diamond it's a really nice song yeah so all of that said i feel like there was some shining bright like a diamond when it came to the work you did at the nfl combine like you guys put in work at fox 32 that was very evident especially last week and i was thinking about some of the stuff that ryan poles said Both of you heard it. DJ Moore, when he talked about him, not only at the Combine, but at the end of season press conference, he didn't back off.
He said every single time, there are some serious decisions that we have to make. So that was my recollection when I heard the DJ Moore news yesterday. Having sat down with Ben Johnson, having sat down with Ryan Poles and Jeff King, did you revisit anything that was said immediately when you heard about either Drew Dahlman news or DJ Moore, even Tremaine Edmonds? What came back to you thinking about the work you had done? Well, thank you. First off, and shout out to our bosses at Fox 32. For the last three years, I've gone down there for the entire week, and it really is so beneficial to talk to all the national people that are down there, too. And it was just such a different experience this year because with the 25th pick, and who knows if the Bears keep the 25th pick, it was like you could go in a million different directions on who the prospect could be that they're going to draft.
So it was more so about the Bears and where they're at right now coming off of last year. The DJ Moore stuff, I thought... Starting at the end of season press conference when Ryan Poles talked about his toughness and everything that stood out with not missing games, other players around him looking at DJ on the field playing banged up and saying, well, I better be out there too. And then what he said at the combine about him having to make some tough decisions and not knowing the different combination of players that they would have on the roster next year, reiterating the toughness and durability that DJ plays with.
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