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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Bears are still appealing to the NFL to get their draft pick compensation

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2651 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how the Bears are still trying persuade the NFL to award them draft pick compensation under the Rooney Rule for assistant general manager Ian Cunningham's departure to become the Atlanta Falcons' new general manager.

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0:00.0

Spiegel and Holmes.

0:01.1

Freddie Gibbs, thank you so much for coming on.

0:03.1

Yes, sir.

0:03.4

Yes, sir.

0:04.0

Hey, man, I love the score. Man, I've been rocking with it still with the Sports Radio 820 back in the 90s. That's how you cut a promo. Afternoons on the score. We've communicated through the right channels. So it'll be up to the league. I mean, I'll be honest. I think it's, it is a little strange.

0:23.0

You're right about that, Ryan Paul. So it'll be up to the league. I'll be honest, I think it's, it is a little strange.

0:29.8

You're right about that, Ryan Poles, and I am glad that the Bears are showing some fight in this.

0:42.3

That they're not just accepting what has been, I think, a ridiculous interpretation of compensation for an executive moving to another org and getting a promotion. It's really, really wild. It's a Spiego and Home Show. We got you until 6 o'clock.

0:48.5

So Speegs, they talked about this part of the thing, too. I'm glad we could get some time with them on this.

0:55.4

Yeah, me too.

0:56.8

And I think that, you know, we'd gone on a little bit of a journey here of thinking,

1:01.5

they should get that, right?

1:03.4

And, like, gathering evidence of Matt Ryan and everybody talking,

1:07.3

and then getting to the date where they declared as the new league year opened who was

1:12.5

going to get compics or not and the bears don't and we all bemoaned it and kind of buried it

1:18.2

and it's not buried for the bears which is fascinating and I'm glad that it's not buried for them

1:24.0

it shouldn't be all right so let's hear from the particulars here's what Kevin Warren had to say about the Bears fight to get those comp picks. We're excited for Ian and his

1:32.6

family. That being said, you know, we were notified by the league at that point in time a couple

1:38.8

weeks ago that their stance was that we would not be awarded compensatory picks.

1:46.1

We have been in communication with the NFL in regards to see if, you know, what further

1:52.4

conversations can be had, you know, from that standpoint.

1:57.4

And so we, we do feel we want to be good members and good partners in the NFL, and we're happy for Ian,

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