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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Bears Beat Packers, Clinch Playoff Berth

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Football, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ruthie Polinsky and Clay Harbor break down the Bears’ overtime thriller against the Packers, highlighting a wild comeback that reshapes the NFC playoff picture. They dive into the biggest takeaways from the win, what it says about the team’s resilience, and hand out game balls after one of the most dramatic performances of the season. The conversation then widens to the full NFC playoff landscape before getting “Wired In” with a deep dive on Caleb Williams’ performance and his growing path toward a 4,000-yard season. Clay also makes the case for Ben Johnson as Coach of the Year, and the show wraps up by looking ahead to a primetime Sunday night matchup against the 49ers and what it could mean moving forward.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone?

0:06.8

Welcome back to the Charter podcast brought to you by St. Xavier University.

0:09.9

I'm Ruthie Polinsky.

0:11.0

This is Clay Harbor, and we are bringing you a Victory Monday edition of the Charter podcast.

0:18.6

Of course, you may be watching or listening to this later on in the week,

0:21.8

and we so appreciate you joining us because really you should celebrate this one for a few days,

0:28.1

Clay. And I think the people of Chicago have been celebrating this win because it was a Saturday

0:33.6

game, they got to celebrate on Sunday, maybe still even calling it a victory Monday.

0:42.6

And because it's a longer week, too, you know, with the Bears have a Sunday night football turnaround. You know, you can let this one breathe a little bit. People probably still coming

0:46.8

down from that crazy game on Saturday. Yeah, what an unbelievable win. It's just indicative of

0:53.5

this pair of season. When you count them out, they're down, you think it's over. It's just indicative of this pair of season. When you count them out,

0:56.0

they're down, you think it's over, it is not over. Don't turn off the TV. Don't leave the

1:02.5

stadium. These guys have belief in themselves, belief in their coaching staff, and they believe

1:07.7

they're going to win no matter what the situation is.

1:11.5

So it was just so impressive to see how they rolled that one out.

1:14.8

I know there are some stuff that people might say, oh, they caught breaks here or there.

1:18.2

They won the game.

1:19.3

They made plays when it matter.

1:21.0

Huge win.

1:22.3

And now they are clinched.

1:24.4

The chips are falling their way this season. And that's not usually the story of the

1:31.1

Chicago Bears. And you talk about them being clinched. Thank you, Aaron Rogers. For taking down

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