Matt Chatham breaks down what Bears fans can expect from new center Garrett Bradbury
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What can Bears fans expect from new center Garrett Bradbury?
Rahimi Harrison-Grody. I'm not a fan of any team. I'm just a fan of being right. Middays 10-2 on 104.3 The Score. What does the season mean to you? Yeah, just a lot. It's been a fun group to go work with, for sure. How surprising was this sort of offensive performance compared to maybe what you were expecting after just the last couple weeks? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Surprising is the right word. Certainly didn't do a good enough job. It hurts. So try and learn from it and move on. That was Garrett Bradbury, who is the new center for the Bears after the Super Bowl loss to Seattle. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And for more on Garrett Bradbury, we go to our hotline and also we go to Twitch.
twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. That is where we find friend of the show. He is a former Patriots linebacker, three-time Super Bowl champion, the owner of Rub Smoke Love Premium meat rubs and seasonings. Visit rubsmokelove.com. It is Matt Chatham. Matt, thanks for joining us. Great to be with you. I think for us, the first place to start is, number one, as you observing this Patriots season, which was successful outside of that Super Bowl L, this is a guy in Garrick Bradbury who consistently was there. Every single snap of the regular season, he was there in every game. How much do you look to that consistency as something that we can look forward to here observing him with the Bears? I would say more my experience from playing than the media years, there's always a type like Garrett on good teams.
And that's usually the guy that, you know, maybe it was more heralded earlier in his career. His first round pick originally played for an extended period of time for that team, has made money in the league. and then another team gets him when it is apparent that he's still got tread on the tires. But he's not going to come in and necessarily make Pro Bowls or anything like that, but he's just going to be steady, dependable, and like you mentioned, he's going to play 17 games. So he's kind of the guy that... you know, oddly enough, you see when a free agent comes to a place that has, you know, had a coaching change and they're sort of looking for their leaders, a guy from the outside that immediately was a podium guy right off the bat.
You know, someone that the organization trusts enough to basically give their message week in, week out and be the guy they put in front of the microphone and the camera. So that's very telling with him as well. The other thing I would say about Garrett's performance during the year, other than the Super Bowl, which they got a lot of A lot of flack earned for pocket pressure up the middle.
How did Garrett Bradbury perform during his time with the Patriots?
He was the kind of guy we just didn't talk about much, which is usually a good sign. It's not like, oh, this one's, you know, they hit a home run on this free agent or this one really stuck. Garrett was really consistent, but unspectacular. And I think that's, at the price point we're talking and the stage of career, that's really what you're hoping you're getting in Chicago. Matt, as we look at Garrett, I think we're all trying to figure out just how good he is because, again, last year the Bears went out and got the best free agent center that was available, and Drew Dahlman only got a year out of him. And now you're wondering, okay, looking at his time in the NFL, what can we expect? Is it more of what we saw in Minnesota?
Is it more of New England? But I think because of the guards who he's playing in between, he should be adequate. And I don't know if adequate is the right word or not. Tell me what you see here. I always kind of cringe a little bit with sort of evaluation of players as if anything non-pro bowler is sort of a problem. And it really doesn't work that way in my view. As long as you win your matchup play after play, you're going to be a net positive. And I think he's that kind of player. I think the other thing you also look for is when you hit the 29th and 30th year, those are the years in which you're logging games, right?
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What can Bears fans expect from new center Garrett Bradbury?
0:01–2:37
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How did Garrett Bradbury perform during his time with the Patriots?
2:37–6:58
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What consistency can we expect from Garrett Bradbury with the Bears?
6:58–9:28
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How does Garrett Bradbury's playing style impact the Bears' offensive line?
9:28–12:31
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