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The organization offered him just$15 an hour to return as an assistant offensive line coach.
During his 13-year stay with the Bears from 1998 to 2010, he earned six Pro Bowl selections and was named to the All-Decade Team for the 2000s. He retired midway through the New Orleans Saints season.
The Bears' offensive line coach, Harry Hiestand, reached out to the Hawai'i native to join the coaching staff, he said on 670 The Score.
The last time they offered me a job, they offered me fifteen dollars an hour. That's how they do business. Those are the things that need to change.
The University of Washington product's net worth is estimated at 15 million dollars by Celebrity Net Worth. The minimum wage for large companies in Chicago is fifteen dollars an hour.
"Harry wanted me to come in and help with the offensive line development, help coach the offensive line, and that's what I'm going to do," he said on The Score. I was offered 15 dollars an hour to work there as an independent contractor.
The four-time Brian Piccolo Award winner joined NBC Sports Chicago as a Bears analyst.
The playoffs have been missing from Chicago in nine of the 11 years since Kreutz left. It will end the season with a 6-10 record and will play the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
