What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question.

It means everything to me.

That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.

The history of it.

I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchises,

just kind of blows my mind, honestly, that was able to be a part of that.

The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise,

the story franchise of the running back position,

with guys like Gail Sayers and Walter Payton and being able to follow in those footsteps.

So being a bear means everything.

I mean, what more can you say?

Welcome to the Undercenter podcast presented by Sprinkler Fitters Union Local 281.

I'm Lauren's Holmes, joined by Olin Cruz, Alex Brown, Matt Forte, and Lance Briggs, and we are talking about the Bears 16 to 6 win over the Minnesota Vikings with Chase Daniel at quarterback.

We have a lot to discuss, gentlemen, but I love to, I'm going to start with the defensive guys.

How much did you love that performance from the Bears defense?

It's phenomenal.

They absolutely dominated.

I don't think the game was as close as the score actually said because at no point did you feel like that offense was going to take over the game or that that run game was going to be.

I mean, they came in and Davin Cook was the top or one of the top rushers in the league. And it just, he just couldn't get started. Didn't matter we were missing Hicks. Didn't matter that, um, Roquan wasn't in. They just, they have, they plan with a belief that they can stop or smother anybody and it's showing it was impressive you know and

you know we're going to talk about the quarterback controversy but the quarterback wasn't the only

guy that had somebody feel in they played well so to me if there's a quarterback controversy there

should be a controversy for a lot of different positions because there were a lot of players

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