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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Bears hit: Dillon Thieneman is excited to be in Chicago (Hour 4)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the final hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Score reporter Chris Emma to deliver a Bears hit live from Halas Hall after the team introduced new safety Dillon Thieneman earlier in the afternoon. After that, Spiegel and Holmes shared their non-Bears takeaways from the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday.

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0:00.0

Bears fans. Today is day two of the NFL draft, and our coverage continues on the score.

0:05.0

Recapping round one and getting you ready for round two.

0:07.5

We are Chicago's draft headquarters, sports radio 1043 The Score, and always live on the free Odyssey app.

0:13.4

Broadcasting live from the Hyundai Studios, presented to you in part by your local Hyundai dealers.

0:17.8

WSCR, WSCR FM and HD1 Chicago in Odyssey Sports Station.

0:23.7

The score!

0:26.6

The Bears!

0:28.9

We'll go next to Chris Emma from 670 to score.

0:31.4

Go ahead, Chris Emma.

0:32.8

I will fight Chris Emma. Name the time, name the place, I'll be there, Chris Emma.

0:36.7

Covering the Bears for 104.3. The score. Covering the bears quite a bit as he always does, and we're always happy to have him aboard. Chris Emma. Yeah, we got you, Chris. Chris, you look like you're working that technology about like I did. At the same point of time, they've got major depth concerns, so, I mean, I feel like I got through the crowd noise here with these cicadas going. I can't tune out here outside of Hallis Hall.

0:59.3

Some people like Chris Emma. Chris Emma with Spiegel and Holmes. I like it.

1:03.4

On 1043, The Score. We like you, too. Chris Emma is now joining us on the score hotline,

1:10.3

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1:14.6

We are so happy that Pottawatomie Casino is joined the Spiegel and Home Show.

1:19.4

And we're happy to talk with Chris Emma.

1:21.6

What's happening? Emma?

1:23.4

Boys, what's up? I was thinking back to the 2018 draft in right before the Bears made their selection of Rokane Smith. Vic Fangio came to the media room and said, guys, I got a whole one today on a part three on a local course. It's going to be a good night. And we've not heard from Dennis Allen. I'd like to think he had a whole one or some big moment yesterday before they took Dylan Thetam in there. But a lot of excitement here at Alice Hall is the newest bear has arrived.

1:46.0

So wait a minute. So what happened after Fangio had the hole in one? What happened that night? He was Ryan High, and they got their star linebacker in Roquant Smith. He knew he said, we're going defense tonight. I got a good feeling. We're going to get a playmaker, and he was right. Well, you know, yeah, I mean, I assume the vibes are great for Theanmen.

2:02.2

They're great around here, frankly.

2:03.6

Every show, every expert, hell, the Oregon, D.C. was on today. We had the Purdue DC on today. It feels like a victory for the scouts and a victory for polls too, even in valuing the safety position that high, doesn't it?

2:34.3

It really does. Look, they wanted to match positional need with the best player available, and I really feel like they did that. They had a couple other options as well, and Ryan Poles even said, like, they looked at the opportunity to potentially move down. This is not really a draft where there's going to be a lot of movement down. It's not a tremendous draft where there's that substantial need for a lot of teams, but they were perfectly

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