Dillon Thieneman's High School Coach Details his Path to the Chicago Bears

Mark Carman· Host0:00

And as promised, we are doing the deep dive on Dylan Thieneman, who everyone is excited about. And we have his high school coach, Josh Miracle, uh, with us here. Westfield High School. Was an assistant, the DC back then, head coach now. And I don't know, did you become the head coach because of Dylan? Do we have to give him credit for that, Josh? [laughs] Did he help you move up, uh, along the way?

Josh Miracle· Guest0:21

I'd say that's a big reason. When you get smart players and, and guys that make you look like a better coach than you probably really are, so he, he probably has a lot of credit in that.

Mark Carman· Host0:30

So hi- you know, his history, of course, he's the third brother that's coming in. The first two ended up redshirting at Purdue, and of course, Dylan had all the options, and he gets the scholarship to go there. Wh- when, what... You know, y- and you had, like... I mean, these are big-time players to get to even redshirt. So when you see Dylan come in, how long did it take you to figure out like, "Oh, this guy's better than his brothers and we really have an asset here"?

Josh Miracle· Guest0:53

Yeah. Kind of an interesting, uh, deal here. His brothers went to, to Guerin Catholic, so another school. And then, you know, we were lucky enough to have Dylan here. He decided to stay in Westfield because they have lived in Westfield. And, you know, he came here and you could just tell the work ethic was different. Uh, you know, and then the high-caliber football IQ, uh, you know, you're not li- around a ton of players that are gonna ask those types of questions, you know, that early on. So you could see some pretty special, you know, traits developing early on.

Greg Braggs Jr.· Host1:22

Yeah, I mean, when we were at the Combine, um, we had an opportunity to talk to him. But when he was at the podium,