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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Dave Helman is glad the Bears didn't break the bank in free agency

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Laurence Holmes and Carmen Vitali were joined by Dave Helman of The Athletic Football Show to discuss the latest Bears and NFL storylines as free agency continues.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

The score!

0:09.9

Damn, the Bears got some really good intel when they decided to trade a future five for Garrett Bradbury on Friday.

0:15.9

Because that deal comes down, and I spent 30 minutes on Thursday trying to convince you they should go after Tyler Lindervalm. That deal comes down and, you know, I spent 30 minutes on Thursday trying to convince you they should

0:21.4

go after Tyler Linderbaum, that deal comes down and it's like, well, what are they doing?

0:26.6

Like, these better centers are about to hit the market and you can do much better than

0:30.8

Garrett Bradbury, even if he had a nice season for the Patriots.

0:33.9

Like, he's only under contract for one more year.

0:36.0

What's going on?

0:36.7

All in quick succession, Tyler Beaudish is a charger now for $10 million a year. Our guess was maybe like

0:42.8

seven. Connor McGovern is a bill again for $13 million a year. I think our guess was like 10.

0:48.4

And now Sean Ryan's getting $11 million a year or however the math winds up going, but a $33 million contract.

0:55.3

So I look at that, and I'm like, trading a future five for a serviceable guy with one year left on his deal.

1:02.1

Not a bad bit of business for the Chicago Bears if you're trying to stay out of what is clearly going to be a very expensive market if this weekend is any indicator.

1:12.4

That's Dave Hellman on the athletic football show, which you know rocks our world.

1:17.8

We are big fans of it.

1:18.9

And I'm not saying that because Carmen's in the room.

1:22.4

Like Robert is on this show quite often and is a big scorehead himself.

1:27.3

And we love that we are, I guess, kind of related to the athletic football show.

1:33.7

So that's a good thing for us.

1:35.8

Yeah, it's all in the family.

1:38.2

Right.

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