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CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast

Dave Wannstedt's Advice for the Chicago Bears: Draft Playmakers Over Measurables

CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast

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🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Former Chicago Bears head coach Dave Wannstedt joins the CHGO Bears Podcast and discusses the upcoming NFL Draft. Should the size of D-Linemen really matter over what they've actually put on tape? Wannstedt says no. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Dave wants to, can I call you Mr. Media Coach?

0:04.1

Because Big Ten Network, Markey, CHSN, the score, taking time for us at CHGO Bears.

0:13.4

If somebody had told you, Coach, that you would become this media maven, if you will,

0:19.0

in the latter stages of your career, what would you have said?

0:24.0

Well, no, I would not have thought about that.

0:28.8

And obviously, I wouldn't have really thought that was a reality at one time, to be quite honest with you.

0:36.2

I figured I'd coached so I couldn't do it

0:41.1

anymore and I just got to the point where I was kind of winding down I was up here

0:48.1

at Tampa just for God it was like six months Greg Shiana was in his last year and he

0:52.5

called me up and asked if I can come up and help

0:55.4

him and I said yeah you know I'll come up and try to help you and and obviously we never got to go in

1:01.2

that last year and that's when my wife said you know this is kind of getting crazy haven't we had enough

1:09.7

40 years of this thing 39 years years, I think at that time.

1:13.6

And so I actually, in Chicago, Brian Harlan,

1:17.3

who's my agent, I called up Brian, we were talking,

1:21.0

and he said, well, why don't you get on an audition

1:23.0

at the Big Ten?

1:24.5

You know, Mark Halsey, the general manager down there,

1:26.7

I've got a report to him. So I went

1:28.6

down and did the audition thing and they liked it and they offered me a job. And then they,

1:36.5

you know, Fox owns the Big Ten. And so they called it up. Somehow the word got out to Fox in L.A.

1:44.0

And then Jimmy called me and said hey

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