Dennis Allen explained how he can coach better in 2026 | Take The North
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Bears fans, this is Take the North. What's the reason, Doc? It's here. With your host. All these guys.
Dan Wiederer. 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 into the Take the North podcast along with Dan Weider of The Athletic. I am Mark Grody of 104.3, the score on the Rahimi Harris and Grody show.
Dan, what's going on, man? Not much. How you doing, Mark? Busy weekend at House Hall, and now we're flipping the page to a little bit of a shortened quiet period here before the schedule comes out later this week.
Yeah, that's right, man. It was a two-day rookie minicamp. Dan took in both of the days. I got out there on Saturday, so I got my eyes on a bunch of rookies and tryout players as the Bears both days decided to practice indoors inside of the Walter Payton Center. So it was really good to see all those rookies, Thineman, Jones, Roush, Thomas, Muhammad, Elliott, Vandenberg, and then a bunch of other rookies that you try to figure out who they are. There's some veteran players mixed in, one of whom we will talk about towards the end of this podcast because they signed a player based on what they saw inside the Walter Payton Center. But I thought that for this episode, one of the people that spoke on Saturday, a coach that we have been kind of eagerly anticipating and looking forward to hearing
is the Bears defensive coordinator, Dennis Allen. We have not heard from him, obviously, since last year. We never got to talk to him after the Rams game. We haven't gotten to talk to him about the draft. And so there are many topics that we wanted to talk to the Bears at D.C. about. So I thought that we would start with Dennis Allen. And I thought it was apropos about that that you and i had the honor of of small talking with dennis allen to get the coach warmed up as as he approached the lectern inside of hallis hall so i thought we would let our listeners kind of dan and i were the warm-up back take a listen to this oh yeah how are you doing i'm doing outstanding yeah excited to get an opportunity to be back in front of you guys again
Oh, no. All good, man.
I did love the maniacal laugh out of Dennis Allen right there. Dan, you could even fill it in. Dennis Allen is an interesting character. Nice guy, professional, all of that kind of stuff. But one thing, he was difficult with us last year on dwelling on the previous week's game, even though we only get to talk to the D.C.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:07
2
What insights does Dennis Allen share about coaching better in 2026?
5:07–9:20
3
How did the Bears perform during rookie minicamp?
9:20–14:13
4
What challenges did Dennis Allen face as the defensive coordinator?
14:13–28:13
5
How does Dennis Allen plan to improve the defensive line's performance?
28:13–38:21
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