Ep. 169: The Bears are NFC North Champions!

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Sunday was a glorious day at Soldier Field as the Bears beat the rival Packers to clinch their first NFC North championship since 2010! Matt Forte, Lance Briggs and Alex Brown join host Laurence Holmes to break down the victory and look ahead to the playoffs. How far can this Bears team go? And what is their ceiling in the long term? 0:22 – 2-for-1! Bears win NFC North and knock out the Packers4:30 – Breakout game for Leonard Floyd?6:15 – What worked offensively vs Green Bay? 7:05 – Charles Leno proposes to his girlfriend after the game9:40 – Where do the Bears need to improve most heading into playoffs?11:20 – How can Bears avoid complacency? 15:00 – Are the Bears a year ahead of schedule?16:10 – What’s the ceiling of this Bears team?19:20 – Where can Trubisky continue to improve? 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	Welcome to the Undercenter podcast
0:08.9	As the Bears win the NFC North.
0:12.1	I'm Lawrence Holmes alongside.
0:14.1	Matt Forte, Lance Briggs, and Alex Brown.
0:17.2	Gentlemen, whoever wants to take the ball first on this one,
0:23.7	how do you feel about the Bears beating the packers and winning the division i love the fact that that not only did they they win the division
0:29.7	but they knocked the packers out of the playoffs um i think we've been it's been on the flip side
0:36.4	where they knocked us out and they won the division before.
0:39.0	So it's, I hope this is, you know, one of those trends that's starting to happen and the ball's starting to change again toward Chicago's favor for years to come.
0:48.5	So that's always good.
0:49.6	That's always a good thing.
0:51.0	Two games left.
0:53.2	A lot to continue to play for. And I think this team right
0:56.8	now is riding, you know, at an all-time high, you know, especially from a confidence level.
1:02.3	So it's fun. It's fun. I mean, obviously there's things they need to correct still,
1:07.0	things they need to get better at in my Metro Tribisky voice. But I like where they're at.
1:15.0	Is this satisfying Matt?
1:16.8	Yes, it's huge.
1:17.8	It's huge.
1:18.8	Especially a home game like that, playing against Green Bay and to knock them out of the
1:22.8	playoffs, but winning the division at home.
1:25.9	We've been a part of it so many times where it's been, like Lance said, the other way around,
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