Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
The views and opinions of Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, and Mark Grody should not be taken too seriously. Especially when they give advice. Do not take Marshall's analogies literally. Especially when it comes to Russell Dorsey. The sports thoughts of Rahimi, Harris, and Grody may change at any time. It's just sports. Okay, thanks, bye. Rahimi Harrison-Grody, 10-2 on 104.3 The Score.
We don't know who's starting at safety for this team.
Let's say in a world both were on the board. I think it's far-fetched, but if they were both on the board and the Bears are picking at 25, I would go Dylan Thienemann.
With the 25th pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears select Dylan Thienemann. Defensive back, Oregon.
What we call this right here, we call that just a dog is what he is. Hudson is the contested catch guy, the big transfer from USC down here at the bottom. They bring blitz. Free rusher. Allard can't get away, and he does get it off in time, but it's incomplete. Reynolds the target.
Fiedemann came in from the defensive backfield and laid the hit.
Make it to Pena. Allard, sideline. Oh, it's picked. Dylan Fiedemann calls game. That's a walk-off, wide-out winner.
Jaden Maiava, the quick throw out in the flat. Makai Lemon, no place to hide. Nice job by the defense, and Dylan Thienemann leading the way. Benson in motion. He's going to be the man to carry it, and he's going to get dumped by Thienemann. Williams deep drop, loads, and let it fly. And right there is Thienemann to end the ball game with the interception.
Dylan, you're a Chicago Bear. What stands out most to you about your journey to becoming a first-round draft pick?
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the Bears selecting Dylan Thienemann?
I mean, started at Purdue, ended at Oregon, but I'm just extremely thankful for everyone that's been with me throughout the way and the journey I've gone on.
You grew up idolizing his safety and studying him a ton that people here know well in Troy Polamalu. What traits do you bring to the table that can make you the next best one for the Bears?
I think I'm very versatile and I'm able to use my speed and play recognition to play fast and play aggressive. Exciting whites. Layla Rahimi, Marshall Harris, Mark Grody. Midday's 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 104.3 The Score.
Welcome to a post-NFL draft round one show on Rahimi, Harrison, Grody on 104.3 The Score. Nicely done, Tyler Biedervaugh, as we get to know the new bear and who's starting at safety opposite Kobe Bryant. Dylan Thiedemann, welcome to Chicago. And that is a question asked and a question that was answered promptly at the 25th pick yesterday.
Marshall Harris, Mark Rohde, and Laila Rahimi with you on this Friday. And first segment, me was like, well, if the Bears want to trade up or if there's even a slight thought, it's got to be probably for safety. And then Marshall, you were on safety. Mark, I know you wanted Caleb Lomu or thought that that was a possibility.
Although in my first mock draft, I did say safety, but it was Emmanuel McNeil-Warren.
Which was Daniel Jeremiah's thought. Dane Brugler and David Hall, most importantly, both nail it with the Dylan Thienemann pick. And I guess it can be that simple at times where, hey, we don't know who's starting in safety. And Jeff King's like, oh, yeah, we got some safeties if we had to play tomorrow against imaginary team. Okay, Cam Lewis. Yeah, question asked, question answered.
You can't tell me that the Bears didn't at least somewhat draft for position of need here. Ryan Pohl said they aligned, but we didn't know who was going to be at that spot on the depth chart. And the bottom line is, after day one of the draft, now we know.
The best part about this is that any angst you had about the Bears and what they would do in the first round, it kind of trickled away as the picks were coming off the board because you realize, oh, wait, they're going to have many options that you, as someone who's been following the NFL draft bear saga at 25, would be comfortable with.
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Chapter 3: What traits does Dylan Thienemann bring to the Bears' defense?
Dylan Thienemann. That's his name. Sure about that? Yeah. I'm very much sure about that.
Mark Rody is on a stir the pot meter of 100 today. Oh, man.
Him being where he was made this an easy pick. It fell to them. There weren't hard decisions made. They did not do something idiotic like trading up to get him ahead of Minnesota who ended up not taking a safety. They didn't do any of that. They let the pick come to them. And I hope they learn from this lesson and don't do anything.
anything too rash at the beginning of the second round with all those illustrious names mark that you just said are still there because they don't pick until 57th there's a long ways to go from where we are right now in the draft and 57 well yes mark i was gonna say and dare i say that this is potentially the best bears safety combination since eddie jackson adrian amos possibly eddie jackson oh of course we'll even go but the 2017 and 2018 was a steal in that
Yeah, he was a fourth-round pick, but I love the, I mean, and this is the way of the world, I think, with safeties in general. You must have some versatility, but the versatility is real. At Oregon, Thienemann, hybrid safety, according to one of the scouts, as the words he used, wore a variety of hats. Deep middle, robber, nickel, etc.
And we know about Kobe Bryant, who last year played an entire season at free safety. The year before, he played the whole year at strong safety. And earlier in his career, he was a cornerback. So these are ridiculously versatile, not big guys. That's the one thing you look at these guys.
Neither is a particularly large man, so you hope that that doesn't affect their games in terms of the wear down, but a lot of speed and a lot of versatility with those two guys.
I did have a bit of a chuckle when I saw that the video said Dylan Thienemann ran a 4.37. Then the commentary on the combine said he ran a 4.36. Then somehow it changed to 4.3540. And I'm like, you know what? What's two hundredths between friends here? Either way, that guy is fast.
I did get a bit of a preview, though, in just what you're talking about, Mark, when we try to describe these two safeties in Kobe Bryant and even in what you heard Dylan Thienemann say in his Zoom call, which for a typical customary Zoom call after a draft, he was really informative, I thought, because he told you the story about why he changed from Purdue and transferred over to Oregon.
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Chapter 4: How does Thienemann's versatility impact the Bears' secondary?
And apparently the reason, because David Hall brought it up during transition, the reason that the Steelers, that Pittsburgh used Styx, the song Renegade, a Chicago-based band, is because apparently, according to this texter anyway, I'm going to go ahead and believe this one. It says it's the Steelers' fourth quarter tight games anthem. How do this many people in sports radio not know this?
Oh, no, read it. Read it right. How do this many people in a sports radio studio not know this? Well, you forgot your next qualifier and prep position there, sir. I don't care. And that's in Chicago. Well, right. I'm not listening to fourth quarter. Oh, it's a fourth quarter tight game.
Better bail on this Bears game so I can hear a random song maybe that they play overheard on the television broadcast coming back in Pittsburgh.
In other words, we don't care about what the Pittsburgh Steelers in-house music is, nor do you. They don't know what songs are played at the Bears stadium. If you could sing one line of Bear Down, Chicago Bears, then congratulations to any Pittsburgh. And I wouldn't expect Pittsburgh fans to be able to do that.
I know Jump Around in Wisconsin, and that's enough for me. And I probably know some other ones, but I don't care to mention them right now because it doesn't matter. So I'm sorry if you're offended. But maybe you should turn on our friend Andrew Filippone's show, and you guys can have a whole big discussion about it. But yes, that was part of the production that was going on at the NFL draft.
This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody, and we are talking about not just the draft, but Dylan Thienemann, who the Bears drafted at 25th.
I just wanted to point out, this is just an affirmation also from something that noted historian Sherman Dilla Thomas always says, everything dope about America comes from Chicago. So the fact that Pittsburgh has to use a Chicago band to get their thing going, that's Further proof of that, right? And I'm cool with loaning. As long as everybody understands it, yes, we loaned Pittsburgh sticks.
Congratulations.
I just, I can't with the gatekeeping. Like, it's... How do you guys not know this? Well, we're in Chicago, so if that's a problem for you, then you can hang out at... Bears, sir. Bears. You know, in Pittsburgh at Accresure Stadium. Have yourself a lovely time. No, we want you to hang out right here.
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Chapter 5: What surprised the hosts about the first round of the NFL Draft?
What raised your eyebrows the most in round one of the NFL draft?
Oh, it had to be the Rams taking Ty Simpson. Like the quarterback from Alabama who had been, I don't know if propped up is the word, but I feel like he benefited from being the quarterback opposite Dylan Mendoza.
Chapter 6: How did the Rams' pick of Ty Simpson impact their strategy?
Like I consider... I consider this. So, or Fernando Mendoza. Sorry, I really am in baseball brain. I'm so sorry, guys. Fernando Mendoza. Fernando Mendoza is no doubter. He goes to Las Vegas.
So is Fernando Tatis, especially when he faces Hideo Nomo twice in one inning.
Fair enough. So when it came to Fernando Mendoza, that made sense. I love that he's a LinkedIn partner now because he had the open to work. Did you see the commercial immediately after? Fantastic. Good work out of Mendoza. But that's that's kind of that's who he is. He's that guy. Great interview with Laura Rutledge too during the draft show, I thought.
But that said, because of the draft industrial complex, as you put it, there has to be another guy. There's got to be another quarterback. And maybe somehow other quarterback opposing obvious quarterback is going to get some shine. And I feel like Ty Simpson is the beneficiary of that.
There's always going to be, I think, somebody who... And maybe this ultimately ends up being a good thing for the Rams, but Sean McVay's reaction... would indicate that it was one of surprise. And I feel like this was an impulse buy by Les Snead, their general manager. I understand that Matt Stafford is getting older.
That doesn't mean that in a weak quarterback class, even though you may think this is your best draft pick slot at 13, you're going to go out and get a quarterback no matter what. Where would he have been in, say, Caleb Williams' quarterback draft class? Where would Ty Simpson be? Take this year's version of him and put it there. you'd argue that he would be the fourth quarterback picked maybe.
So if that's the case, then why are you doing this this year? So I thought that there seemed to be a lack of communication there. That changed the entire, I think, timber of the draft after that. So for me, it was that decision.
That was an interesting thing that happened with Ty Simpson at number 13, but I'm sorry, ain't nothing surpasses what happened last year. At number 21. Because that's when the Pittsburgh Steelers decided they were going to take Makai Lemon, wide receiver out of USC. Only one problem. stealthily, sneakily, and like a boss.
Howie Roseman, who runs the Philadelphia Eagles, had made a trade from 23 to 20 with the Dallas Cowboys. And while Makai Lemon was on the phone with the Steelers who thought that they were telling the young man, congratulations, you're going to be on the Pittsburgh Steelers, guess who was beep, beep, beeping in?
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Chapter 7: What insights did Chris Hampton provide about Dylan Thienemann?
Not the way Mike McCarthy wanted to get his tenure started, I'm sure, as the head coach of his hometown. Pittsburgh Steelers. But I love it. It cements something that I've said. It's a two-man race for executive of the year in North American sports. Sam Presti and Howie Roseman let them go to old-school celebrity death match fighting on MTV. Oh, wait. MTV doesn't exist anymore in that form.
Not in that form. But... Yeah, that's the move for me. The pick, the steal of the draft at 20 by the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm going to bounce through a couple here really quick because I was surprised that Reuben Bain dropped down to 15.
Yes.
I did have kind of a football crush on him.
Chapter 8: What are the Bears' expectations for their new safety?
I guess the short arm thing was a real thing. Yeah, he's got just those tiny little arms. Like a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
I mean, I wish it didn't matter, but poor Will Campbell, he really dealt with it this past year.
Seriously. So he dropped down. I was a little surprised that Seattle went with Jadarian Price, the second Notre Dame running back taken off the board. Our guy Chris Emma told me, hey, man, don't be surprised if he goes in the first round. He's that good. There's just not a big sample size at Notre Dame because Love was ahead of him in number one with a bullet.
So I'm just intrigued with that prospect. And then the other thing, too, was at number 10, the Giants take the offensive lineman CeCe Maenoa. And he said, did you guys get to see his interview? They asked him about Jackson Dart and what he would do for him. He said, I will die for you, bro. He said that.
Yes, oh my gosh. I will die for you, which I loved. That was so heartfelt. It was. I was surprised, though. He was looking into the camera, and I'm like, am I Jackson Dart right now? Like, are you... This is the vow of an offensive lineman. Like, get you somebody who sacrifices you for you the way he did.
My goodness. You have gone too far, sir. We don't want you dying for anybody, but okay. Well, Jackson Dart sometimes needs to be protected in that manner. I guess.
I guess that's the devotion. Yeah, get you somebody who protects you like Francis Marigot is going to protect Jackson Dart.
Number three. This is Five On It on 104.3. The score with Laila Rahimi, Marshall Harris, and Mark Grody. And yeah, it's a big draft day. But also, the Cubs are hot. They won nine straight after yesterday's walk-off. What's your biggest takeaway from the win streak and yesterday's win?
I said, I said, how about nine times in honor of Ferris Bueller telling his, you know, the principal telling his mom, your son was absent nine times.
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