Ep. 236: Saying bye to Fry

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Under Center Podcast, J.J. Stankevitz is joined by John "Moon" Mullin. To start, Moon takes a moment to remember Cedric Benson, who died in a motorcycle accident on Saturday night (00:30). Then, the guys discuss the Bears' surprise announcement that they released Elliott Fry, leaving Eddy Pineiro as the only kicker on the roster (05:40). The guys toss to highlights from Matt Nagy's press conference on Sunday morning where he explains why the Bears decided to cut Fry now, how they think the move will help Pineiro and whether the competition is officially closed (07:55).Finally, J.J. explains why the end of the kicking competition was just like the end of the Bachelorette (12:10), and which kickers on other teams the Bears may still have their eyes on in the upcoming preseason games (16:40).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.
0:10.7	I'm JJ Stankovich, joined here at Househall by John Moon Mullen.
0:14.4	Moon, before we get into, really anything else, I think we need to start this pot off with some sad news about the passing of former bears running back
0:20.9	Cedric Benson only at the age 36 in a motorcycle accident in Austin. Moon, I know you covered him.
0:27.6	You had a chance to get to know him. Any thoughts on just this tragedy today?
0:32.8	Yeah, really hard, again, not to, boy, it's hard not to slip into cliches, but one of the most
0:41.4	interesting guys I've ever covered in 30 years of this, I really like that, just a different
0:48.7	guy. You know, you tend to remember not so much a movie of somebody, but snapshots and little things stood out and even talking to some of the other guys who were around covering the bears when he was there in 05, 06.
1:02.1	He was one of those guys who'd give you, you ask him a question, and sometimes you wouldn't think he was even going to answer it because he was thinking.
1:07.8	He'd think about his answers.
1:09.7	And there was, i remember one time down
1:11.9	in bourbonnet was doing a profile of him of some sort and right at the lunch break and they had
1:20.0	afternoon practice and he said let me have let me think about that get back to you so i think
1:24.9	i'm sort of thinking okay well that's probably the end of that one.
1:32.5	At dinner, he comes up with back then we were allowed to eat at the mess hall.
1:38.6	He comes running over and says, yeah, man, that was a good question. And then you proceeded to tell me chapter and verse of what he.
1:50.2	He gave thought, he was the kind of guy honored. He was, you know, kind of a man of his word, if you want to call it that. I mean, because he was so eccentric, he was, maybe I would say one of the less popular guys.
1:55.9	But I think so much of that stemmed from Thomas Jones, who was one of the most popular guys.
2:02.0	I don't know that Jones necessarily poisoned people about him, but Jones was here in 2004.
2:05.5	They draft Benson, and Jones resented it,
2:08.6	and along with that, kind of went to a bad relationship.
2:13.2	And then he held out, which I never understood any acrimony from that because all these guys know, hey, it's business.
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