Bears Prepare to Kick-Off Training Camp

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Training camp is here and the Charter crew is back! Ruthie, Clay, and Alex break down Ryan Poles’ extension, Jalen Johnson starting on NFI, Luther Burden’s fully guaranteed deal, and what to watch as the Bears hit the field.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone?
0:06.6	Welcome back to the charter podcast brought to by St. Xavier University.
0:10.4	The gang is back together.
0:12.9	Alex Shapiro, Clay Harbor, Ruthie Polinsky, here with you.
0:17.3	And we woke up this morning.
0:19.7	Actually, I don't know if the two of you did, but I think I can speak for all of us. When I say, we woke up this morning. Actually, I don't know if the two of you did, but I think
0:22.0	I can speak for all of us when I say, we woke up this morning being like, there's football this
0:26.0	week. Like, this is Christmas week. You know, it's like not Christmas Day, but you're like,
0:32.0	okay, like Christmas is coming. Okay, I'm, and I don't even celebrate Christmas. But I love Christmas.
0:37.5	So I think like there's this energy, there's an aura that is, I think we're all sort of feeling not just on this podcast, but probably if you're listening to this episode or watching us on Chicago Sports Network.
0:52.3	Because tomorrow we get to hear from Ben Johnson and
0:56.3	Ryan Poles and the next day there's going to be practice and it's not offseason. It's not
1:04.1	mini-camp. This is training camp. The real deal where every rep counts, Clay. I know you know
1:10.6	what that's all about.
1:11.8	We're gonna get into it all.
1:13.0	There's a lot to catch up on football-wise.
1:15.4	A lot of things happened.
1:17.0	The last week when a couple of us had more time off
1:20.7	and we just kind of took a little hiatus,
1:23.2	slow news week, but then sort of felt like everything,
1:25.6	a lot happened over the last five-ish days or so.
1:28.7	So before we get into football, guys, want to hear how you're doing, what's going on.
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