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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Is Bears ownership willing to spend cash to create cap flexibility?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed the Bears' lack of cash spending since 2019 and whether that will change now that they're contenders.

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0:00.0

Spiegel and Holmes.

0:01.3

Two-time Olympian, former Black Hawk friend of the show, Jeremy Roneck.

0:05.4

My guys in Chicago, what a great day to be an American, huh?

0:08.9

Afternoons on the score.

0:10.2

Dollar, dollar, bills, y'all.

0:16.5

So it's been my theory, Lawrence.

0:19.6

It's in a salary cap sport, we don't need to think about

0:22.9

the McCaskies as sometimes we do the Rinesdores or the Ricketts with a sliding scale or

0:30.6

any other ownership group that we perceive as cheap when it comes to paying players.

0:36.2

Like you got a floor, you got a floor,

0:39.2

you got a ceiling, you got to pay players.

0:40.9

We've thought about the McCaskies this way in regards to facilities and head

0:43.2

coaches and coaching staffs for a long, long time

0:45.4

until that changed. The McCaskies throw around

0:47.4

nickels like manhole covers.

0:49.6

Dude, it drove Doug

0:51.5

and former players crazy

0:53.3

for decades and decades and decades. But they redid the facilities

0:59.2

under Ryan Pace. He did a wonderful job. They kind of did it. They did some again under Ryan

1:04.5

Poles. We did a few different departments with some investments. Upgrades, hiring more people.

1:10.0

Yeah. And then they paid a head coach $14 million a year. Which is a big deal. And they got the head coach that they won it this time. Yeah. Like this wasn't one of those John Fox type things. They went and got the guy that they wanted. For the most money that anybody was getting that off season, and that's what it took, and they got it done, they stepped up.

1:28.8

So now that this theory is back around that McCasky cheapness might be affecting this

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