Ep. 107: Breaking down Bears’ big day in free agency

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Emergency Under Center Podcast! Ryan Pace hits the ground running in free agency, adding Allen Robinson and Trey Burton to Mitchell Trubisky’s arsenal of weapons. What are realistic expectations for Robinson’s production coming off a major ACL injury? Was Robinson the right choice over Sammy Watkins? Plus, what does this mean for Cameron Meredith and Kevin White? Bears Insider JJ Stankevitz breaks it all down. See 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	Today on the other center podcast, Alan Robinson is coming to Chicago. The Bears get their
0:06.2	big target for Mitch Trubisky. I also make a couple of other moves. J.J. Stankovitz,
0:11.5	our Bears Insider, joins us to discuss it all right now.
0:29.4	Today it is a happy new year, a day before the new NFL year starts with Bears fans, Alan Robinson, with poorly in the fold.
0:36.5	Trey Burton as well, Cody Parky, Ryan Pace, after a quiet beginning of the legal tampering period. a flurry of moves overnight here with
0:40.3	Slavko Beckovich and joined on the phone by J.J. Stankovitz, our Bears Insider. I'm Paul
0:45.3	Aspen, one of the Bears producers here at NBC Sports Chicago. So Slavko, before we
0:50.3	bring in JJ, just want to get your initial reaction. Let's start with the, you know, the big news, Alan Robinson, three years, reported 42 million.
0:57.5	Well, we definitely thought something would happen early in day one of the legal tampering
1:02.5	period, but apparently it waited until the middle of the night with the reports coming
1:06.0	around 1.30 in the morning central time. Right, yeah. All of a sudden the Bears team is kind of scrambling
1:11.8	to figure out what the heck is going on. But if Ryan Pace had identified Alan Robinson as the top
1:17.2	wide receiver available in free agency, then he got his man. Clearly that they have faith that he's
1:21.9	going to be completely cleared from his ACL surgery tearing his ACL in week one last year
1:27.3	with the Jaguars.
1:29.3	But, I mean, he's still 24 years old. He'll be 25 when the season starts.
1:33.3	He's 6-3, huge catch radius. And, you know, we all know what he did in 2015 with that incredible season.
1:39.3	And JJ will elaborate on this even more, something that only 14 other receivers in NFL history have ever done with 1,400 yards and 14 touchdowns.
1:47.9	So it's an impressive season for him, a little bit of a downturn in 2016, but how can you not love this?
1:55.1	He's easily better than anything Mitch Trubisky and the Bears had as far as that wide receiver group last year.
2:00.4	So, I mean,
2:01.7	what's not to love? It's a short-term deal. 25 million guaranteed or so is what we think. So
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