Ep. 183: Just how good has Ryan Pace been?

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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JJ Stankevitz, Paul Aspan, Laurence Holmes, and Cam Ellis debate just how good Ryan Pace has been during his Bears tenure, wonder if Allen Robinson was underappreciated this year, and give their predictions on the likelihood of signing either Antonio Brown or Le’Veon Bell. 00:17 – Laurence describes not watching the rest of the NFL playoffs with the rest of New Orleans 02:46 – JJ polls the room on their confidence in Ryan Pace heading into the draft05:11 – Laurence goes into why he’s not been as crazy about Pace’s tenure as others have7: 30 – Ryan Pace’s mid-round picks have historically been great – but can they take the next step?10:03 – Allen Robinson may have been underappreciated this year11:15 – a deep, deep dive into the Bears’ kicking woes since Gould left 16:03 – How confident are we that Pace can find a suitable kicker?21:28 – Cam defends Cody Parkey for some reason 24:15 – How likely are the Bears to sign Antonio Brown or Le’Veon Bell?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 in to another edition of the Under Center podcast here on NBC Sports Chicago.
0:12.2	I'm JJ Stankovitz, joined in our downtown Chicago studios by Cam Ellis, Paul Aspen,
0:16.9	and we've got Lawrence Holmes on the podcast this week.
0:19.3	Hey!
0:19.9	Yeah, that's an excited way to begin it.
0:22.4	I'm really excited.
0:23.3	I feel like I've been disconnected from the league for a little while because of how
0:27.3	quickly the Bears exited the playoffs.
0:29.6	It's been a strange month for me, like just even watching the playoffs in the Super Bowl.
0:35.1	And plus, like I was telling you before we started recording, my trip to New Orleans was amazing. Yeah, so people didn't care about the Super Bowl. And plus, like I was telling you before we started recording,
0:37.5	my trip to New Orleans was amazing.
0:40.3	Yeah, so people didn't care about the Super Bowl.
0:42.1	Like, people actively made a point to not care about the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
0:45.8	Correct.
0:46.4	And I thought it was all talk.
0:48.2	And then you start looking at the numbers.
0:50.4	Half of the audience that watched the Super Bowl in New Orleans last year didn't watch this year.
0:55.7	Like they had the lowest of any major market rating for the Super Bowl.
0:59.9	And it was an amazing experience to be in the French quarter during the Super Bowl that Saints fans thought that their team should be in
1:08.8	because you would have thought it was a Saints game day with all of the Saints paraphernalia jerseys and everything else that we saw I I will never forget that experience it was tremendous if there's a city not to watch football in I feel like it might be New Orleans a hundred percent correct I mean we, like my personal experience, I saw the front page the next day,
1:29.3	but what you were just telling us about, like, that them having a Super Bowl party to avoid the Super Bowl on the day of is wild.
1:35.3	Well, they had that had the parade with the second line that was leading the parade down the river,
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