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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Bears scheduling rumors & information are trickling out (Hour 4)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the final hour, Matt Spiegel and Dan Wiederer reacted to rumors trickling out about the Bears' schedule for the 2026 season.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is where Chicago comes to talk Bears football.

0:03.0

We are Sports Radio 1043, The Score.

0:05.7

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

0:10.1

WSCR, WSCRFM and HD1 Chicago, and Odyssey Sports Station.

0:17.0

The Score!

0:18.4

Spiegel and Holmes, afternoons on the score.

0:21.7

A big part of it is they love to engineer the prime time windows to have the best games.

0:26.8

And when the Bears are now considered one of the best teams and they're a big draw,

0:30.2

they had more than $30 million tune in for the wild card game on Prime Video on a Saturday night in January.

0:36.4

The Bears are going to get jerked all over the

0:39.5

place this year. They're going to be playing short weeks. They're going to be playing prime time.

0:44.6

All coaches would prefer to have every game start at the same time every week, noon central

0:50.0

on Sunday. That's the ideal routine to get into.

0:58.8

The Bears are going to have to ignore that kind of normal.

1:02.9

This year, it's going to be abnormal because I think we're going to see them all over the place.

1:03.1

We saw it last year, and they weren't even regarded going into the season as a team that

1:07.7

was likely to get as far as they did.

1:09.6

Now that they are a team with a great quarterback that people are going to want to see

1:15.0

with a coach that is a fascinating designer and executor of offense, get ready for Bears

1:22.3

games to be all over the map this year.

1:28.3

Can you feel the drama and the majesty

1:32.3

at turning non-news into news

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