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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| 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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