Welcome back to CHEHGO BEARS after dark, presented by Circus, Fourth, Illinois, and our good friends over at Empire today. We appreciate their support always to the program.

I am your host, Greg Bragg Jr.

And alongside me, as always here is our good friend, Shane Marceau.

Philotian will be joining us here in just a little bit.

And Adam Rank has the day off.

And we appreciate all his contributions to the program. He is... in just a little bit. And Adam Rank has the day off.

And we appreciate all his contributions to the program.

He is having his last day of vacation, a very well-earned one here as we are gearing up for preseason action.

I mean, the first preseason games here will be on Thursday night, right?

Shane.

And away we go. Football will be on our TV the rest of the year for the next seven months. Oh, man. I can't win. I mean, I'm excited. But there's always going to be screw up, screws up or screw ups, I guess I should say, right? Yeah. We did last week with our intro, you know, clean it up and post. And we're going to be ready to go when the, when the preseason games run around.

Yeah, for sure.

It's training camp for everyone.

And we're learning that here as the headline of the show is kind of trading punches here

with Ben Johnson and Dennis Allen.

And I think that kind of came to a head here at Family Fest.

You know, defense kind of won the one each day, the first week of training camp,

which is to be expected, defense is always going to be ahead of offense.

This time of here, that's the old adage.

And then in the second week, here the last five days or so,

the offense really kind of took a step in the right direction and each day kind of

stacked better days than the last. But then you get to Family Fest here yesterday and the

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