Bears dealing with COVID-19 ahead of Titans game

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

JJ Stankevitz and Cam Ellis dive deep into an eventful few days for the Bears organization after the entire team and staff were sent home before practice Thursday due to a second positive COVID-19 test. Later, the guys discuss the awful luck of the injured Mitchell Trubisky and what kind of chances the team has against the Titans on Sunday.(1:30) - The entire Bears organization is in a fluid state after another positive COVID-19 test Thursday(6:00) - What would have to happen for Sunday's game to not be played as scheduled?(15:30) - If Tyler Bray can't be on the sidelines Sunday backing up Nick Foles, who would you like to see be the emergency backup: Matt Nagy, Dave Ragone, or Henry Burris??(19:00) - Mitchell Trubisky potentially has structural problems in his throwing shoulder after getting injured on his only play last Sunday(25:00) - How can the Bears win in Tennessee despite being 6.5-point underdogs according to PointsBet Sportsbook?(36:15) - Breaking News live while recording! Cam & JJ react to the Bears being cleared to return to Halas Hall and practice FridaySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, I'm J.J. Stankovits and welcome in to another edition of the
0:09.4	Undercenter podcast brought to you by St. Xavier University. On this episode, I'm joined by
0:14.5	Cam Ellis to talk about a pretty bad week of news for the Chicago Bears between COVID cases,
0:27.0	Mitch Trubisky's shoulder, and a game against the Tennessee Titans that they are not going to be favored to win it.
0:30.6	All that and more on the Under Center podcast where I promise we'll have some positivity.
0:32.0	Starting right now.
0:39.2	What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question.
0:40.6	It means everything to me.
0:49.5	That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.
0:54.3	The history of it, I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchise is just kind of blows my mind, honestly, that I was able to be a part of that.
0:59.0	The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise, the story franchise of the
1:06.6	running back position with guys like Gail Sayers and Walter Payton and being able to follow
1:10.2	in those footsteps.
1:11.6	So being a bear means everything.
1:13.6	What more can you say?
1:15.6	All right, Cam.
1:20.6	Let's start with the latest COVID news, which we're taping this about 7 o'clock on Thursday evening.
1:30.4	And there is the potential for more news to come out on Friday.
1:33.8	In fact, there's almost certainly will be more news on Friday.
1:37.9	But let's just talk through our listeners of where we stand right now.
1:41.0	So earlier this week, right tackle, tackle Jason Sprague's tested positive
1:46.7	for COVID-19. Germina Fetty, their backup, their starting, excuse me, right guard was placed
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