Welcome in to another edition of the Undercenter podcast here on NBC Sports Chicago.

I'm J.J. Stankovitz with John Moonmullen. We're back in the coat closet.

It's been a long time since we've been back up here at House Hall in our ceremonial recording studio.

We've got to get some pictures up if we're're gonna be here long because it just doesn't look

homey i think we need to

maybe a sports bar look would be good for us anything maybe a wet bar maybe

yeah yeah let's uh... let's talk to the bears about that i'm sure they'll

step out they they're in a celebratory mood today the the bears announcing their

five new free agent signings,

kicker Cody Parkie, quarterback Chase Daniel, wide receivers, Taylor Gabriel, and Alan Robinson,

and tight end, Trey Burton. And, you know, Moon, every year we have a press conference with the new

free agents, and they're being announced, and they're talking about how excited they are to be in in Chicago and it's easy to be excited when you just signed a contract that's going to pay you

millions upon millions of dollars. But there is something specific about this today where

every single one of these players talked about how relatable Matt Nagy is and how excited they are to play for Matt Nagy,

and specifically with Robinson, Gabriel Burton, about how they excited they are to play

with Mitch Trubisky.

And I think that's a really important thing to note as the Bears kind of are able to sell

themselves to free agents a lot better this year than it seems like they have in years past. Yeah, and that kind of are able to sell themselves to free agents a lot better this year than

it seems like they have in years past.

Yeah, and that kind of stuff, listeners know, I mean, I expect them to say that.

But I think we've seen enough people talk.

This was different.

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