Can the Bears' offseason be a success without a splash move?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes shared how they view the Bears' offseason outlook after they missed out on star pass rusher Maxx Crosby on the trade market and center Tyler Linderbaum in free agency.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, sports fans.
0:02.8	Afternoons on the score.
0:04.7	The Patriots are trading center Garrett Bradbury to the Bears giving them a new center.
0:09.4	Wow.
0:09.9	The deal can't officially be processed until the league year begins.
0:13.5	Problem solved and no Tyler Linderbaum.
0:15.9	Yeah, but that now opens the door for you're not spending a lot of money on center.
0:22.2	Correct.
0:22.7	So if you wanted to absorb some salary and trade some capital away.
0:28.6	Max Crosby, you're saying.
0:29.7	Yeah.
0:30.1	You said the name Max.
0:32.2	Gone great, Max.
0:33.2	Thanks for having me.
0:34.3	Well, I think, first off, Max, he's the face of the franchise. I'm not real certain on that, Max. Can I take a ride to Negative Town for just a second? Not yet. I need your help. I can't tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later, and we're going to hurt some people. Who's going to take? I'm sorry, the mayor of Worriedown would like to speak. Everything's negative.
0:54.5	The glass is always half empty.
0:56.0	Here's all I'm going to ask.
0:57.1	You promised Jeffax.
0:58.7	If at the end of this, you end up with what I think is a very solid center and then maybe
1:04.1	a veteran left tackle, but you don't get Max Crosby and the center isn't Tyler
1:08.9	Linderbaum, is that perceived as a negative?
1:12.8	Is that perceived as the Bears didn't do what they needed to do in the offseason?
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