Dan Wiederer talks Bears' prep for NFL Draft (Hour 4)
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What mindset are the Bears adopting for the NFL Draft?
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 104.3 The Score. We'll mention this mainly because Dan Wiederer said we would mention this nugget.
How are young players expected to contribute to the Bears' success?
Host of the Take the North podcast. We're going to take the North and never give it back. Dan Wiederer. Thanks, Coach. We'll go first to Dan Wiederer. On Chicago Sports Radio, 104.3 The Score. Weezy!
Rahimi Harrison-Grody on the score. It's happening. It's really happening. We didn't think we were going to have Weedzy, Weedman, because they're all waiting for Caleb Williams to speak. We thought we were going to do a Dan Weiderer pregame show, but Dan is joining us. He is at Hallis Hall right now. What in the Weiderer is going on out there right now, man?
Yeah, we had a 10-15 showtime here today. We got to talk to Cole Komet, Kobe Bryant, and Garrett Bradbury, and Caleb is the headliner of the show, and he's been significantly delayed with meetings, and hopefully we'll get to hear from him before the day's up.
I was just saying to Marshall here off the air, the more power, like we all want the franchise quarterback, we all want the elite quarterback, but guess what? Those guys get to do things on their own time.
Listen, I mean, that's when you go to a big show, big concert, big anything, there's a little bit of a wait before that main act comes on the stage.
Wow, that's such a great comp right there.
Sometimes a lot of bit of a wait. Sometimes you've got to come back the next day. Dan, I've got to ask you, where does this week rank for you? As a guy who covers the NFL diehard for so long, draft week, where is that on your this-is-my-time-to-shine type of situation? Because training camp, there's the playoffs, there's all kinds of different markers to an NFL season. Where does this one rank for you?
Yeah.
There's two things that I like about draft weekend. Number one is it's scheduled, right? Like an unlike free agency where things can happen at any time of any day, you know, when the draft starts on Thursday and you know, roughly when it ends on Saturday. And so there's a lot that happens in that period of, I guess it's like 47 hours from, from start to finish. And you're just kind of in it, you know, you're, you're going through the currents pretty quickly and rapidly. And surfing with the team, the directions that they go in the draft. And so that part's fun. And as Grody knows, I love it when the draft ends because all of the off-season roster speculation and the guessing games on who's going to be here and who's going to not be here are pretty much over.
You're like 95% of the way to having your roster ready to go to training camp. And that part's fun because then you can just start analyzing the actual team that they have assembled instead of playing all these games about who they might or might not have.
Dan and I co-host the Take the North podcast, and today, Marshall, we will do what we now call our draft extravaganza special. We go extra long. I believe it'll drop tomorrow, but we will tell you everything you need to know that we think you need to know about the draft in today's episode, which, again, would you can get later on you can go download any of the episodes of take the north right now if you would like it a couple of quick text messages here mr weeder uh from from separate places 773 weed man on 420 just feels appropriate yep and then from the 815 weed man on 420 really guys right that's right it's absolutely happening but on the serious side of things dan we've of course got the news that you guys are reporting out there that darn all right they had the fifth year uh uh picked up on his contract no duh we knew it was going to happen how much is is he going to get a proper extension sometime soon as well or just wait and see
Yeah, I mean, that's the first step in the process, right? You exercise that fifth year option.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What mindset are the Bears adopting for the NFL Draft?
0:01–0:17
2
How are young players expected to contribute to the Bears' success?
0:17–7:45
3
What insights does Dan Wiederer provide about draft week excitement?
7:45–16:23
4
What are the implications of exercising Darnell Wright's fifth-year option?
16:23–22:30
5
How does the Bears' draft strategy reflect their current roster needs?
22:30–34:02
6
What key positions should the Bears target in the draft?
34:02–41:56
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