Examining the Drew Dalman 'evidence locker room'
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We thank you for joining us. This is Rahimi Harris and Grody on 104.3 The Score. It is Mark Grody and Layla Rahimi in with you. And I think that you pulled a meat. Everybody does this. The receipts. You went back in our, for lack of a better term, in our finding the whys. We do want to know what happened and why Drew Dahlman did decide to retire suddenly. We also... started going back to things he may have said or hints that we may have gotten from like orion polls for example ben johnson caleb williams drew dalman himself and mark as the bears reporter you did that you want to take us inside what you called the evidence locker room yeah absolutely dink dink the evidence locker room is in effect and credit to to my take the north partners dan weeder and adams didzinski we did some of this on the the ttn episode as well
And you're right. And we discussed this. We're not entitled to know what's going on with Drew Dallman. Maybe the Bears are entitled to know, but we're certainly not entitled to know. But that doesn't mean we're not interested. That doesn't mean that we're not curious. As to what happened, it doesn't mean that we're not all working sources on the telephones going back and listening to audio and seeing if there's any clues or any hints because we all missed it. We all missed it and we don't know exactly what happened. So let me present to you Drew Dahlman. on locker clean-out day to hear if there is anything that he was saying at that moment that might have led us or one to believe that he might have been thinking about what he did, and that was to retire at the age of 27 after one year of a three-year $42 million deal.
What led to Drew Dalman's sudden retirement from the Bears?
I think we're really happy with the progress we've made and with kind of the trajectory we're on, but I don't think anybody feels satisfied with the finished product. I know this is your first year here, but this team has been looking for a franchise quarterback forever. What are your thoughts on Caleb being that guy, and what did you see from him all season? Yeah, I mean, I guess first and foremost, awesome guy, great teammate, great to have around, all those things. And then, you know, like all those privileges as a player, like as an O-line, can't tell you the amount of times that he's helped us out when we've struggled or made huge plays for the team to keep us in games or to win games. And so I don't think, I don't know what else you can ask for.
Is there a sense that you guys are well-positioned going forward, but also that it's hard to get as far as you guys got this year? As a veteran, do you have an appreciation for just kind of how close you were to advancing, and do you think that might not be more than a younger guy? I don't think you can ever really count on, oh, we'll just do it next year. Yeah, we'll do that. You know, like that kind of thing. So I think, yeah, certainly, like, it sucks to come up short, and you know the opportunity that you missed out on. But, yeah, I think that's one of those things, like, we gave everything we had, and you've got to come back at it again next year and hope that with increased effort, increased focus, all those things, that you'll push past that.
Was that everything you thought he'd be doing? Yeah, I mean, I can't say I have a super firm notion of what it would be like or anything, but I can definitely say Ben's an incredible coach, incredible footballer, and a great leader, and it's an absolute pleasure to play for him. So when I hear that, I don't hear anything that indicates at that point he was ready to talk about retirement yet or at least at least hint at it with people, even in a casual conversation with the media. Yeah. And he did. alluded to next year not aggressively or anything like that you know it wasn't like the theme was we gotta get back off can't wait for otas and training camp but there was an allusion to it so it's just interesting like going back and like like maybe now watch the film where is that that he did was there somewhere along the line that he got hurt but really the point is is even right there the the the
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