Interviews of the Week on 104.3 The Score: May 4-8
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This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody, and we are in a Football Friday formation of sorts, rookie minicamp underway at Hollis Hall.
What insights did Kevin Fishbane share about the Bears rookie minicamp?
So that is why we wanted to have Kevin Fishbane on. Follow Kevin on X at KFishbane. He is on Instagram at KevinFishbane. He's the senior writer at The Athletic covering the Bears and hosts, breaking in with Kevin Fishbane, a sports media podcast. And he joins us on Twitch, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. Fishy business, how are you today?
Layla, Football Friday, let's talk about this game on Sunday. What do you guys think? Bears, Packers, noon, Soldier Field?
You know what? The funny part about that is there's probably not going to be a whole hell of a lot of noon games for these Chicago Bears, Fishy.
Great point. Great point. Grody, we just found out schedule releases next Thursday, which is really a holiday in our books.
Didn't know that. Okay. You broke some news here.
Yeah, we find out stuff a little later here on this show. But thank you, Kevin.
Breaking news on the score sponsored by IDOT. Speeding in a work zone is a no win. Mind the signs. Avoid the fines. Yeah, that had been the big scuttlebutt around the league was when was the schedule going to be released? So now we know.
Thursday, 7 p.m., and each network is going to release a game or two in the lead-up. So I would imagine that the kickoff game will be announced before Thursday. So we'll find out in less than a week if the Bears are going to open the season in Seattle on Wednesday night.
I would like to see that. Rookie minicamp underway out there. Kevin Fishbane, Ben Johnson speaking. And I guess the guy that I'm going through a little 48-hour obsession over is Logan Jones. And the very specific question, Kevin, is does Logan Jones have a legitimate shot at being the opening day center for the Chicago Bears this year?
I mean, yeah, he does. They always say they don't put a ceiling on guys. I mean, this is not a staff that is going to say, because you are a rookie, we are not even going to consider that when we have a veteran that we traded for. But I think what good teams do is they allow guys to compete, and they will allow Logan Jones to compete with Garrett Bradbury. I think that Garrett Bradbury's experience is going to give him a huge edge in this competition. Guy played in the Super Bowl last year. Guy played in this division for a bunch of seasons. He just knows the NFL. Now, Ben Johnson said today, he reiterated that coming from Iowa, Logan Jones is ready to go. I mean, this is somebody that they don't have to worry about a ton of seasoning with.
But I'm still going to give the edge to Bradbury right now. Obviously, we'll learn a lot more come early August when the pads get out and see how Logan Jones handles the likings of Jervon Dexter, Grady Jarrett. But yeah, I mean, what I like about this organization is they will open that door. They will allow for that to happen. They're not going to just immediately hand the starting position to Bradbury because he has the experience. With that said, I do think that experience matters a lot at that position.
Well, and I think part of it, too, is also understanding how much value the Bears are placing on these individuals. You can't tell me that Drew Dahlman retiring didn't change part of the Bears' plan, especially with the second round move to get Jones.
Yeah, I mean, you could argue that Drew Dallman retiring cost them two draft picks, Leila. I mean, it cost them the draft pick to go trade for Brad Barry, and then they had to use a second on Logan Jones. I don't think they ever would have considered drafting a center that early. Remember, Luke Newman, their sixth-round pick last year, they really liked, and they were working with him on center in training camp. When he had to step in and play guard during the season, did a nice job before he got hurt. So, you know, in your mind, he was kind of going to be the backup. But they had Ryan Bates last season. So that was not something to worry about. So, yeah, they had to add up resources.
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