Chicago Bears Offseason: No Big Signings… But a Bigger Plan?
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
312 Sports
4.6 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00 Poles
12:00 FFF
31:50 Top 10 List
1:03:00 Irsay Auction Update
1:07:25 DBU Picks
Ryan Poles met with the media yesterday, and his approach to the Chicago Bears 2026 offseason is becoming crystal clear. While the Bears didn’t make huge moves in NFL free agency, Poles continues to build a long‑term plan focused on the 2026 NFL Draft, roster development, and sustainable winning. Bears fans should feel confident—this is exactly the kind of patient, strategic rebuild Chicago has needed.
We’ve said it all along: trust Ben Johnson. The new Bears head coach is shaping this roster with purpose, discipline, and a clear offensive identity. Every move is setting up Caleb Williams and the entire organization for success.
It’s Friday, which means another edition of Friday Feedback Friday, where we react to your comments, questions, hot takes, and Bears debates.
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| 0:00.0 | Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. Unfiltered on 312 Sports. Friday, DBU on 312. Welcome to it. We are brought to you in partnership with My Bookie and also today by our friends, our dear friend Russ at Chicago Window Guys. |
| 0:22.9 | It's Friday Feedback Friday, and we have a ton of stuff to do. |
| 0:26.3 | We also have our Friday Top Ten list for you. |
| 0:29.5 | But first and foremost, I just want to thank Ryan Poles for doing exactly what we wanted |
| 0:33.9 | him to do. |
| 0:35.3 | And he explained exactly what his job is and why he does such things. |
| 0:40.2 | But what did we say? |
| 0:42.1 | Make the call. |
| 0:44.0 | Can't hurt could help no reason not to make the call. |
| 0:49.9 | And as you always say about Ryan Poles, that he tends to be honest. |
| 0:55.7 | He tends to tell you it doesn't really help or hurt the bears to say, yes, that he checked in. |
| 1:04.6 | In fact, he did. |
| 1:05.4 | He said, we're always going to monitor every situation. |
| 1:08.5 | Sometimes it fits and it works with what you got going on in terms of |
| 1:11.8 | resources. Sometimes it doesn't. We were involved. We checked into it. We looked to see if it made |
| 1:18.2 | sense, had some dialogue, but I'll just leave it at that. Cool. Like this isn't one of these |
| 1:23.7 | things after the fact when somebody signs big money and then an embarrassed team, |
| 1:28.6 | like the White Sox maybe, would hustle out to say, oh, we made an offer. |
| 1:33.2 | We were close. |
| 1:33.9 | We had an incentive laid an offer and he could have picked us, but he made a mistake. |
| 1:37.7 | And he took more money to go somewhere else. |
| 1:40.5 | But our offer was better and our owners really stepped up and all that stuff. |
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