Every draft, a True Take comes along and takes your breath away. They get more rare by the year, but if you're lucky, and all the planets align, you can still catch a glimpse of its splendor. It's the type of take that hijacks the discourse for an entire day of the NFL Draft. Mountainous in stature, it casts a heavy shadow over all the other, lesser draft takes that desperately try – in vain – to compete. Usually it's said loudly.
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Chase Daniel didn't land that take, but reader, it sure wasn't for a lack of effort. Boy did he try. In the middle of last night's cautiously-celebratory Colston Loveland discourse, Daniel saw through all the fake niceties of 'a football player living out his dream' and cut to the heart of the real question that everyone was wondering: why are the Bears so cringey?
Chase Daniel has the definitive 2025 Bears draft take of our time
Why does this feel so awkward?
— Chase Daniel (@ChaseDaniel) April 25, 2025
No juice at all from anyone in that Bears draft room pic.twitter.com/uPGMjGPjmq
Great point dude. Couldn't have said it better myself. Who starts a call with, 'How you doing, man?' My social anxiety is through the roof right now. And the way that Loveland's excitement makes Poles crack up? Utterly juiceless. Are we supposed to pretend that bouncing in your chair after making your first pick as an NFL coach is endearing? The absolute gall of those other front office employees to sit there quietly while their boss talks on the phone. It's bush league stuff like this that explains why the Bears never win anything.
In a media landscape overrun by hot take artists and hyperbolic, self-appointed NFL Insiders looking to grab the spotlight and never let go, it's nice to know we still have some capital-j Journalists among us. Now more than ever, we need the bravest among us to point out what we're too ignorant to see with our own eyes. The Bears are an awkward, juiceless franchise and the sooner we confront that, the sooner we can make our peace with it. Papa Bear would roll over in his grave if he knew how little juice there was left on the lakefront.