Ep. 188: Previewing free agency with The Ringer’s Robert Mays

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

JJ Stankevitz is joined by The Ringer’s Robert Mays to look ahead to free agency, and if Ryan Pace will have the ability to be aggressive without much cap space. Plus, why Robert sees Adrian Amos as the better fit to return to the Bears, not Bryce Callahan. 1:00: The Callahan/Amos question is a strong indication of where the Bears stand heading into free agency2:30: Is it realistic to expect the Bears to improve with internal growth, rather than major roster changes?5:45: Does the lack of ability to tweak the roster make the Bears’ risk of becoming the 2018 Jaguars higher?9:00: Would you rather keep Bryce Callahan or Adrian Amos?13:00: Is it at all realistic or even possible for the Bears to be aggressive in free agency? Maybe going after Le’Veon Bell?16:00: Where do the free agency splashes come next week, outside of 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 into another edition of the Undercenter podcast. I'm J.J. Stankovitz for NBC Sports Chicago.
0:12.1	My guest on the pod today is Robert Mays, who does a tremendous job covering the NFL for the Ringer, also happens to be a Bears fan.
0:18.8	I have to say the work that he and Kevin Clark do on the
0:21.4	ringer and their podcast, The Ringer NFL show, which you should go download right now,
0:25.7	is sort of my North Star for thinking about the NFL. You can follow Robert on Twitter at Robert
0:30.5	Mays, and Robert, welcome to the pod. I appreciate it, man. That's very nice to me to say.
0:34.6	Well, hey, I mean, I literally, I'll invite drives up to Hallis Hall during the season, I'm always listening to The Ringer NFL show.
0:41.0	Because it gets me to think about the NFL in a way that is different than a lot of other kind of national podcasts.
0:48.0	So you guys do tremendous work over there.
0:50.1	Thanks, buddy.
0:51.7	So I want to get into some talk about free agency and the Bears here, and I want to start with this question.
0:57.4	Is it a good thing that the debate around the Bears right now is if they should keep Bryce Callahan or Adrian Amos, in the sense that they don't have these pressing needs that they've had in years past.
1:10.0	And we're talking about replacing maybe one or two guys or keeping one or two guys
1:15.3	on the league's best defense.
1:17.9	Is that just an indication of where the Bears stand right now in the NFL?
1:22.4	It's an indication of them a couple different things.
1:24.3	I think you can look at it in one of two different ways.
1:26.4	One, it's nice to not have these huge glaring needs and to know that your roster, for the
1:30.9	most part, is pretty much set outside of a couple tiny moving pieces.
1:35.7	But on the flip side of that, that also means you're locked into the team that you have.
1:40.3	One of the reasons that there are no needs is because they spent so much money last offseason
1:44.4	is because they've leveraged a lot of resources to build this team so you have these contracts
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