Ep. 157: This is gonna be real now

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

JJ Stankevitz and John “Moon” Mullin look ahead to the start of a critical three-game stretch against the NFC North with Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions, and wonder how big an impact the trade of Golden Tate will have on this game. Plus, why stopping Kerryon Johnson will be key and how the Bears can still put up points even if they can’t get the run game going against Detroit. 0:00: Putting a bow on the Bills, and why the blowout mattered1:45: Starting to wonder what to make of the Lions. They beat the three teams the Bears lost to, what does that mean?3:45: What were the Lions trying to accomplish at the trade deadline? How big will the trade of Golden Tate be on Sunday?6:35: How does Matt Stafford, fresh off getting sacked 10 (!!) times, handle the Bears’ pass rush?9:25: The Bears’ defense is good against the run, and that’s huge for facing the Lions14:00: Matt Nagy is the biggest reason for the Bears’ offensive success18:10: The Lions’ D-line looks like a tough matchup for the Bears’ O-line20:30: Does it matter how many yards Jordan Howard gets on Sunday?22:15: A quick tangent on Kevin White being inactive, and where he goes from here24:50: Will gameplanning for the Lions this week help out on Thanksgiving?25:55: Evaluating the NFC Playoff picture and why the Bears shouldn’t rely on the wild cardSee 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	Welcome in to another edition of the Under Central podcast here on NBC Sports Chicago.
0:09.9	I'm JJ Stankevitz, joined, as always by John Moon Mullen, here in the basement of House Hall.
0:14.6	Moon, not much to talk about on the Buffalo game.
0:17.9	No.
0:18.2	Other than, I just want to throw this out there.
0:19.7	I've written this a couple times.
0:22.1	Beating bad teams by significant margins is actually a pretty good indicator of a team strength.
0:27.9	You're supposed to do that.
0:28.7	In the last 10 years, I'm going to get this right, in the last 10 years, there have been 28 teams to have multiple wins of 30 or more points in the same season.
0:39.4	The Bears are team number 28.
0:41.1	21 of the previous 27 made the playoffs.
0:44.3	So you can say, okay, the bills are a bad team.
0:47.0	The Buccaneers are a bad team.
0:48.3	The Bears absolutely took care of business in a way that actually is pretty indicative of a team being ready to compete for the
0:56.1	playoffs more so than I think if you had a bunch of really narrow wins that would be a little
1:01.1	you could project a little less convincingly that the bears would be contending for the
1:06.1	playoffs in December. Yeah what they've demonstrated clearly and obviously is the ability to score a lot of points.
1:11.9	Right.
1:12.2	And at the NFL level, there are no, I mean, there are bad teams, but bad compared to what exactly.
1:17.3	So being able to, I don't want to run up the score, but to get a team and if they're down, really step on them.
1:26.6	And that's what they've been able to do a couple of times.
1:28.9	So, you know, they're winning.
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