Clay Harbor reacts to Bears' selection of Dillon Thieneman (Hour 2)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Clay Harbor, former NFL player. Clay Harbor, slot to the left. Here's Vick's pass, and it's caught. Touchdown by Harbor.
What are the initial reactions to the Bears selecting Dillon Thieneman?
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Football analyst for Chicago Sports Network.
This is an excellent pick. Ben, Johnson guy, train killer, love the draft pick. Dylan Thienemann, number 25, Bears got their guy.
Clay Harbor with Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score.
When you hear dreams and nightmares, it is the music of Clay Harbor, the former Philadelphia Eagle, the longtime NFL veteran for nine years, co-host of the big pro football show on CHSN alongside David Haw and Ruthie Polinsky. And he is in studio here on Rahimi Harris and Grody on this draft Friday.
I picture Clay just salivating all night long as the draft starts, and he's like, all right, this is my time to shine. How were you feeling processing and watching it go from 1 to 25 and realizing the Bears are going to have all these options and could probably get what they wanted there?
Oh, it was great. Obviously the Ty Simpson. First off, a lot of people were saying this draft didn't have a ton of intrigue. There's no big name. There's not a Caleb Williams coming out. The first overall pick isn't even going to start right off the bat. But for me, I said this is very intriguing. Because after pick one... We don't know what's going to happen. Is it David Bailey, Arvel Reese? You didn't even know pick two who was going where. And that was a top ten, and I think that was so fascinating, especially the Ty Simpson, the Caleb Banks to the Vikings, just guys that you think you saw the flashes, you saw a talent they could be, but there's something medically, or there's something where they might not fit in a scheme, and just seeing where some of these guys go.
But as a Bears perspective, you loved it because you saw more wide receivers. Kenyon Sadiq, a tight end, go early. Ty Simpson. And then you start to realize as the board gets there, they could go Lomu, they could go edge, they could go safety, and they had a plethora of players at their disposal. I think you saw, you heard Ryan Poles talk about that. He said, hey, we even considered trading down when we saw how many players we had in the board, and they were being even more selective with their draft board. So I think it fell perfectly for the Bears.
It was a situation, Clay, where the Bears hadn't been in this before, picking in the 20s with Ryan Poles as the GM. I feel like Jeff King gave us a lot of information when he spoke, but for them to just... I don't know if I'd call it luck, but it was nice how this went. I think for a lot of teams, when you consider Reuben Bain goes at 15, one of our texters said earlier that what set it off, this chain event, or this chain reaction of events, was... It all goes back to Ty Simpson being picked at 13th overall by the Rams. That was the one that probably set all of this in motion. And more offensive players being picked early than we thought based on the depth of the classes.
Yeah, it worked perfectly for the Bears. And the Ty Simpson thing, my old quarterback, Matt Stafford, I wonder how he feels about that. Obviously, he knows he's got one, maybe two years left and they need to have a succession plan. But if you're Stafford and you're one play away from the Super Bowl, don't you want to maybe... get over that hump by getting a big-time pick in the top 15 of the draft, an edge rusher to put alongside Verst, defensive lineman, a safety. You've lost some players here. So to me, that was interesting that they would even take a quarterback when they are so close if they just need one more piece to maybe make a Super Bowl.
It reminded me of a little bit of Aaron Rodgers and all those years that they were not drafting him a wide receiver. And then all of a sudden the year that they drafted Jordan Love, who did sit on the bench, and that obviously worked out. But I want to get the – obviously I want to hear the nuts and bolts on Dylan Thiem and what do you think of him as a player from the film you've watched.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:14
2
What are the initial reactions to the Bears selecting Dillon Thieneman?
0:14–4:50
3
How did Clay Harbor feel watching the draft unfold for the Bears?
4:50–13:26
4
What makes Dillon Thieneman an intriguing pick for the Bears?
13:26–17:28
5
How does Thieneman's versatility impact the Bears' defense?
17:28–22:16
6
What are the implications of Thieneman's selection on the Bears' roster?
22:16–43:54
Speakers
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