EMERGENCY POD: Chicago Bears Center Drew Dalman Abruptly Retires | CHGO Bears
CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This emergency podcast is presented by Xfinity. |
| 0:13.3 | Imagine that your team's starting lineup may change. |
| 0:17.3 | Yes, that is fitting. |
| 0:18.7 | But the price of your internet will not. |
| 0:20.3 | Check out the five-year |
| 0:21.2 | price guarantee from Xfinity. Like Xfinity is just trolling us right now with that. But we are |
| 0:28.1 | proudly sponsored by Xfinity because the bear starting lineup did change. And Senator Drew |
| 0:33.9 | Dahlman, according to Adam Schaefter, big enough news that we brought Braggs back from |
| 0:40.4 | a two day vacation. Hello, Greg. I'm sure you're not happy about this. No, it's it's awful, |
| 0:47.1 | right? Excuse me. I mean, wasn't expecting to talk about this. I mean, Bears fans have been |
| 0:52.7 | waiting on the waiver wire all day to hear the news that Max Crosby is getting traded to the Bears. And whether you want that move to happen or not, the range of emotion from, you know, thinking about a trade like that to Drew Dalman retiring. It's a massive blow for the Chicago Bears. It really cannot be |
| 1:13.2 | understated. The Pro Bowl Center last year, you already had to figure out how you're going to |
| 1:18.7 | address left tackle with Ozzie Tripillo's injury. You have so many holes on the defensive |
| 1:24.3 | side of the ball that need to be filled. And they can check a lot of those boxes over the next two months. |
| 1:30.2 | But there's a lot of work to be done. |
| 1:32.1 | And now you add losing your center who was so vital to the turnaround for this |
| 1:38.0 | offense, so vital to the emergence of Caleb Williams becoming a superstar in so |
| 1:44.0 | many ways and taking the sack count |
| 1:46.8 | down from 68 to what was it 20 you know these guys did just a fantastic job on the offensive line |
| 1:55.8 | and started with that interior now you don't have drew dalman it's a devastating blow here today. So I'm going to give you |
| 2:02.9 | two pieces of silver lining. Okay. And then I'm going to cry for the rest of the podcast because |
| 2:10.3 | we know how much I've been talking about centers for the last decade. All right. So I saw the |
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