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Chapter 1: What are callers saying about the Bears' draft class?
rahimi harrison grody we are finally here middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 the score 312-644-6767 is our number we are talking bears draft on the score we go to tommy in libertyville tommy you're on rahimi harrison grody hey y'all thanks for taking my call huge fan i appreciate this um
I just wanted to call and say, I think this was touched on in the eight o'clock hour by the draft expert that Mullian Hall had on. I missed his name, but it was a throwaway comment. He was excellent. And he had a comment that was kind of a throwaway comment, but I think it encapsulates the issue that most fans are having with the draft and not just fans, but everybody.
And that polls has a seemingly inability to read the draft board at times. And I'm, I'm good with the kid from Oregon, Dylan, that we picked at 25. But I'm a 44-year-old amateur fan. And when they made that pick, I sent a text to my buddies. We follow the draft every year. And my text was, love the pick, but we're going to have to move up.
That means once they made that pick, it seemed very clear the way that the draft board was falling and just the players that were available that if we wanted to go and and really get someone to help our defensive pass rush, we were going to have to move up and we didn't. And, you know, polls can say that the board spoke to us, but in past years, he has moved up and moved around.
We saw it, you know, in this draft moving up to go get the cornerback from Texas. And, you know, there's other examples of this where he's just not reading, you know, I think back to when we chose Rome and that was a draft that was super deep at receiver. And I don't necessarily have problems with the players they're picking, but,
I would have liked to have seen Jared Burst there and maybe go for the receiver a little bit later, and I think there are some instances of that with polls where he's just not reading it well, and that leaves us in these positions where now we're taking a third-string tight end who might have been the best player available at that point. I don't disagree with
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Chapter 2: How do fans feel about Ryan Poles' draft strategy?
the way they rate players, but it's just I think we put ourselves in bad positions by not reading the board. I'll hang up. Thanks, Tommy.
That was a great call. I feel like he shares the sentiment of a lot of people. And I think, Mark, you guys talked about this a little bit on the Take the North podcast on Friday. The concept of just best player available versus not reading the board versus that idea.
Again, this is just me. Again, I totally get the angst and the ridiculousness of not taking a defensive lineman of any type until the sixth round. I get it on the surface, but just me and my evaluations in the second round, there was not a single player who I looked at and said... You've got to get on that. You've got to go get T.J. Parker. You've got to go get Mason Thomas.
There wasn't that guy for me, so part of me was okay with them, even though the Bears know it looks bad, even though the Bears know they need better defense, that they weren't fine. forcing it because they know they have the absolute need. The one thing, and this is in retrospect, this is looking back, I love the pick of Dylan Thienemann. I would do the Dylan Thienemann pick again.
The only guy, though, and I think the Bears had some interest in this guy, was Keldrick Falk, the edge who ended up going 31st to Tennessee. Parth, that was the only guy.
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Chapter 3: What concerns do fans have regarding the Bears' defensive picks?
When I look back, but that wasn't even in real time that I was thinking that. He was a guy who may have been worthwhile in the first round at 25, but the rest of these guys, and maybe one of them will blossom, and I'll be dead wrong, but there wasn't somebody who I was just crazy for in the second round.
Yeah, and to the point of that gap, Mark talked about it. He's like, I prefer to look at it. They have a pick in the 20s. I was like, yeah, because that going from 25 to 57 is a huge gap, a lot of space there. We saw the edges that went off the board. Maybe Ryan Poles misread what would come to him there, or maybe he just didn't think it was worth trading up to get one of those edges.
But looking back at the draft in its totality, it is reminding you of the running back situation from a year ago.
I'm going to keep a watch on Gabe Aukus going to the Patriots and trading up for him at 55. And then I wonder if that affects how the Bears wanted to...
to move and and that same idea happened last year when we saw the rush of running backs go off the board and then they didn't pick until the seventh running back is a more fungible position three one two six forty four sixty seven sixty seven rabid randy joins us in kenosha hi rabid randy hello so on the draft i think it's fine whatever i do like offensive linemen like the center but when you have a quarterback and i think the consensus is the bears have a quarterback
You want to keep him upright. But really, my comment is on defensive pressure or the run defense. And I think what will happen this year is the Bears should be ahead in more games as opposed to coming from behind as they did last year. And when you're ahead, as Terry Bores once said, the defensive linemen can pin their ears back. So I think you're going to see better pressure
because the offense is going to be better and you should be ahead in games. So maybe the evidence of that from last year is against the Eagles. The Bears got two sacks, and they were ahead in that game. If you remember that game, they dominated.
They controlled that game from beginning to end, and of course the Browns are terrible, but the Bears had five sacks in that game, and they were ahead in control of that game. No, I think that's a fair thing to say. I think Layla's point, though, that she's made repeatedly and I'm 100% on board with it. I like my guys to get after the quarterback from snap one.
I don't know why that suddenly became a non-concept.
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Chapter 4: What did callers think about the Bears' choice of Dylan Thienemann?
Philly definitely did that. Mario and Hyde Park, you're on the score.
Morning, everyone. Good morning, Mario. I am not as... A couple of thoughts. I'm not as rankled as everybody else about the draft. I'm probably more upset that they didn't try to get the edge rusher or really make an attempt to shore up their defense during free agency at the very beginning. The lack of aggressiveness is glaring to me. I don't have an issue so much with the picks themselves
I think next year's draft is supposed to shake out better than this year's. I can deal with Austin Book. I think Austin Book is going to be that guy. I can deal with a year of them seeing if their defense is as good as they think it is. Another thought that comes to mind.
I don't know if they think their defense is good, but go on, Mario.
I mean, I'm saying they must be. Yeah, I feel you. In the draft or in free agency to make that work and fix it. But to your point, Mark, I think maybe I'm sorry to Marshall's point. I think maybe that they have a much higher opinion of what they have than what the fans see and what people who observe football for a living see. And I'm kind of like it's.
If this doesn't work this time, and they're depending on the draft next time, and, I mean, it's April. Things could still happen. They could still get an edge rusher to supplant them until next year, which I think is a bad idea, but that would probably be what they end up doing. If those players don't work out, Dennis Allen and Ryan Poles might be looking.
for a place to work because this is beyond the pale. If you know your most important player is your offensive player, your quarterback, I'm not surprised they drafted the way that they did. If you know if you had a defense that was anywhere near better than what they were last year, we're not talking about a second-round exit. We're just not. So in April, it all looks weird.
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Chapter 5: How does the Bears' draft compare to previous years?
It will shake itself out when camp starts, I think. And then finally, I am down. I am in. Make the shirts vanilla gorilla. Let's go.
Today. What good marketing, man. Vanilla Gorilla has taken over our text line, and it's taken over our, I feel like, a lot of mentions. That is Caden Vanilla Gorilla Barnett, who plays for Wyoming. He's the undrafted free agent that the Bears signed, who seems to very much have a chance to make the 53-man roster.
The picture with the eye black, where it's just all over his face. All over his cheeks. Okay, big guy. I see you. I don't want to mess with you.
I mean, he was a three-year starter at Wyoming.
You think he's scary? You think he's a scary guy to talk to and stuff?
No, no. I think he's a persona guy.
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Chapter 6: What insights do fans have about the Bears' offensive line decisions?
I think once the eye black goes on, a different person comes out.
As my partner on Take the North, Dan Weider, always says, you got to have guys in the locker room that as a reporter, you're just a little bit scared to go up to and chat with. So he's right. Dan is right. You got to have those guys, man.
I feel like that was C.D. Gardner Johnson for like a minute. It was. But then he actually became like one of the soothsayers of the season.
Weedzy and I kind of cracked the code on him when we approached him.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Bears not drafting a defensive lineman?
He's got championship experience also.
Yeah, we didn't know what we were going to get. We're like, okay, let's try putting him on Take the North here. And he engaged us and he was entertaining, as you guys know.
Yeah, I'm not hating on Vanilla Gorilla. When we're all left asking questions like, what's Cam Jordan doing? That is of no shade to Kim Jordan, but that just kind of lets you know. We will talk more about this with Anthony Heron, the Iowa Hawkeye Big Ten football analyst and score football expert next. More calls, by the way, if you didn't get on. We have another segment for you at 1225.
Chapter 8: How are new signings like Vanilla Gorilla impacting the Bears' roster?
So keep that in mind. More on the score.