Ep. 184: What should the Bears aim to accomplish at the NFL Combine?

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With the NFL Combine starting next week, JJ Stankevitz, Cam Ellis and Paul Aspan look at if the Bears should still focus their draft strategy on taking the best players available, or if needs at running back and/or kicker should supersede that. Plus, the gang dives into what questions they want to hear answered from Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy next week and wonders if the thought of trading a draft pick for a running back is a good idea. 1:00: What questions do we want answered by Ryan Pace & Matt Nagy next week?7:40: Do the Bears need to shift away from taking the best player available to drafting for need?16:20: Robbie Gould is likely to get tagged by the 49ers. Now what?20:45: Thoughts on trading a pick for a running back…like Cleveland’s Duke Johnson?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.
0:14.6	I'm JJ Stankovitz, joined as always by Paul Aspen and Cam Ellis.
0:18.4	It's our usual Wednesday podcast.
0:20.5	Right before we got on, Ian Rappaport of NFL Network reported the Bears released Dion Sims.
0:25.7	That saves them about $6 million in cap space.
0:28.5	It's something we've been expecting to happen.
0:30.1	Sure.
0:30.7	The Bears probably actually did Sims a favor by releasing him now a little bit early before free agency starts.
0:37.1	So decent move, something we've expected.
0:39.9	Nice of them to do it when they did. That's about it. Any other thoughts? No, I mean, I didn't
0:44.6	really imagine a world where they weren't going to do this. Exactly. It seems like they're hitting
0:48.2	all their sort of, you know, predicted checkmarks so far, at least before the offseason.
0:53.5	Right. So we're going to use this podcast to start looking ahead to the NFL Combine,
0:57.8	which, believe it or not, starts in a week.
0:59.7	Crazy.
1:00.3	I'll be in Indianapolis a week from Wednesday. Ryan Pace will be talking. Matt Nagy will be talking.
1:06.1	The whole league will kind of converge on Indianapolis. We'll start hearing some rumors about
1:10.0	free agency at where
1:11.2	Antonio Brown is going, Levy on Bell. The league year really kind of starts at the combine,
1:16.9	but we also haven't heard from Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy since that end of the season press
1:21.7	conference in January. So it'll be about a month and a half. So I want to start off with this.
1:26.4	What questions do we have for Ryan
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