Dan Wiederer: Bears' window of contention is open (Hour 4)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Dan Wiederer, Bears reporter and senior writer for The Athletic. You're going to be relying on a lot of young players, guys that have to materialize into who they thought they were. The Bears are who we thought they were. On-air contributor for 670 The Score.
We'll mention this mainly because Dan Wiederer said we would mention this nugget.
What insights does Dan Wiederer share about the Bears' 2025 season?
Host of the Take the North podcast. We're going to take the North and never give it back.
Dan Wiederer. Thanks, Coach.
How are young players impacting the Bears' performance this season?
We'll go first to Dan Wiederer. On Chicago Sports Radio, 670 The Score. Weezy!
Dan Reeder is the senior writer for The Athletic covering the Bears. He is also the co-host of the Take the North podcast. And he joins us via the Circa Resort and Casino Hotline, CircaLasVegas.com. And yeah, for everybody saying the new Buffalo Bills Stadium, it will be a, technically it's a canopy. It's like Texas Stadium in my opinion. But that was a dome that just had a mistake. So they had a hole in the roof.
That's not good.
They finished what they could. Sometimes that's what you got to do. But yeah, technically it's a canopy. But the point is people aren't going to be shoveling and stuff. It just won't be as bad as it used to be. Dan Weider, we're talking about the weather affecting the games. And so that was brought up. I know you can chime in on this as well.
Yeah, I mean, look, it was fun to watch the end of that game in Denver yesterday just visually. It was quite an appealing sight to see some snow football. Obviously, we got a couple games here in Chicago this month with playoff action with some weather involved. You know, I don't know which way I lean on this because it is fun to see it. You also understand the purpose behind going indoors and all the things that you're trying to get done with that. So we'll see. We'll see which way the ball turns. If that's not the right analogy, but you get what I'm saying.
I think that that is an appropriate analogy for the result of that game. I said if you like defense and you like weather, which a lot of people who listen to this station do, then that was probably a game they loved.
Yeah, you know, it felt like Denver, obviously they missed the opportunity to put some game pressure on New England in the first half when they bypassed that field goal early. You know, I don't know, for me, I love the aggressive plays more often than not, but there's certain times where you've got to understand the situation when you're in and you're at home. You've got a quarterback, too, playing for you. You've got a chance to go up double digits in a game that is probably going to be low-scoring all the way to the end. I felt like one of those ones that will haunt the coaching staff for several weeks, if not months, after that game ends.
Dan, I'm looking at this weekend and I was trying to look at it through the Bears lens. And I don't know that we discovered anything major that we didn't already know in terms of the NFC West being the best division in football. And the result certainly could have gone either way. Home field advantage, of course, advantage Seattle. Do you feel like there's anything you learned about the Bears plight through watching football this weekend?
I don't know if you guys felt similarly, but it just felt like, you know, you were watching a party that you were a part of, right? Like, you know, in previous years, the playoffs have seemed so foreign. They seem so far away to people that have watched the Bears all year. And it's like, oh, man. That's a different realm that those teams are living in. And this year, you're just like, no, that's the realm the Bears were in. It's the realm the Bears could have stayed in if they had made one or two more plays against the Rams the previous weekend. And so I think it just does give you... a little bit of that hope that your window of contention is open. And then, as I always say, what you're trying to do when those windows open is find the strongest steel rod you can to put in there to keep it open for as long as possible.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:22
2
What insights does Dan Wiederer share about the Bears' 2025 season?
0:22–0:27
3
How are young players impacting the Bears' performance this season?
0:27–5:19
4
What are the implications of weather on Bears' games and strategies?
5:19–14:03
5
What factors are influencing the Bears' chances for playoff contention?
14:03–19:12
6
How does the Bears' coaching staff plan to address roster needs?
19:12–39:47
Speakers
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