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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Ep. 35: The risk and reward for Bears in trading for Jimmy Garoppolo

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of the BearsTalk podcast, CSN’s Chris Boden, Sun-Times Bears beat writer Patrick Finley, and CSNChicago.com’s Scott Krinch discuss the Bears’ approach to the two-week window opening to franchise-tag Alshon Jeffery again, the risk/reward in trading for Jimmy Garoppolo or drafting a QB (and how high to draft one), Scott’s 2.0 mock draft, plus the workers’ compensation controversy the team found itself in last week and the club’s decision to raise ticket prices. 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 to this week's edition of our Beres Talk podcast.

0:09.3

Actually, it's been a couple of weeks.

0:10.5

Chris Bowden here with you on CSN as we talk all things Bears here.

0:14.7

It's been a while, and we're pleased to be joined this week by Sometimes Bears Beatwriter Pat Finley and Scott Crinch from CSNChicago.com,

0:22.3

Bear's contributor. You see some of his stuff on the website. Pat, how you doing? I miss you, man.

0:26.1

I don't see you up in hell anymore. I'm going to say it's just, you know, we're bonding over

0:28.8

Eric Cush signing. That's about all we got right now. That's the big breaking news. Tank tops will be be in fashion for two more years. I don't know whether you noticed this, but he actually has a website

0:37.7

that's not up yet, but it's called like Cush Tanks. You can buy your own Eric Cush Tanktop.

0:42.3

Yeah, but I'm kind of happy for him. Scott, you know, I tweeted out kind of his back story.

0:48.2

This is his sixth team since he was drafted in 2013. He's been, had a long, winding, meandering road.

0:55.5

He seems to have found someplace here.

0:57.3

And when he stepped in last year, four starts, an emergency duty, he seemed to do pretty well.

1:01.5

So he's a good guy to have in the back pocket.

1:03.6

Yeah, I mean, we saw that on Hard Knocks last year with him and his family.

1:06.6

They were looking for a home.

1:07.9

It was tough for him. Him and his wife, they never knew where their next place was going to be.

1:12.3

Found a home in Chicago, pays a reward him with a two-year deal.

1:15.9

He's a solid contributor for that team, and you can never have too much depth anywhere,

1:19.7

especially on the offensive line.

1:20.8

Yeah, and now, I mean, keep in mind, this doesn't mean he's made the team.

1:24.0

This doesn't mean anything. I mean, he's facing off with Throneous Bruce. When the Bears draft three more offensive linemen. Right. But, I mean, in theory,

1:30.5

it's a two-year deal that if he plays well, the Bears get a little bit of a discount. And if he

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