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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Ep. 43: Reaction to Bears selection of Mitchell Trubisky

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft, the Bears traded up to No. 2 overall and drafted QB Mitchell Trubisky out of North Carolina. Chris Boden, Alex Brown, and Hub Arkush sat down and talked about the moves made by Ryan Pace and what this means for the franchise's future. Also, hear from Trubisky himself speaking at the podium in Philadelphia as well as his former Tarheel Head Coach, Larry Fedora on what the signal caller can bring to the Bears. Finally, listen to the full podium availability of Ryan Pace after day one of the draft. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome and thank you for joining us on our post first round edition of our Bears Talk podcast.

0:10.8

I'm Chris Bowden.

0:12.1

And in case you missed our special last night on CSN, have no fear.

0:15.5

It's right here.

0:16.9

After the Bears' stunning move, we'll hear from GM Ryan Pace, his new quarterback, his college coach, and from our analysts who weighed in, along with me, the executive editor, Pro Football Weekly, and contributed to the Sun Time, 670 of the score in Westwood won, Hubarkish.

0:32.1

And the very productive fourth round pick from the Bears' 2004 draft, former defensive end, Alex Brown.

0:39.0

There are always surprises on day one of the draft, and you didn't have to wait long this time,

0:45.2

and it was the Chicago Bears that stunned everyone early on moving up one spot from third to second

0:53.2

in a trade with San Francisco while also sacrificing their third round draft pick tomorrow,

0:59.4

one of their two fourth rounders on Saturday, as well as a third rounder in 2018, using it on North Carolina quarterback Mitchell Tribisky.

1:08.3

Gentlemen, the floor is yours.

1:11.0

Well, I think there's kind of three points here.

1:13.5

Number one, you asked me last night, you know, would I be upset if they took a quarterback

1:16.9

in the first round?

1:17.7

The answer was no.

1:18.7

As a matter of fact, knowing what a wasteland it's been in Chicago for so long, to go get

1:23.4

the best free agent, to get one of the top quarterbacks in the draft. I admire the boldness of that move.

1:29.0

Now, I move to my second point.

1:31.2

I don't think that Ms. Trubisky is the best quarterback prospect in this draft.

1:35.3

When it comes down to my opinion or Ryan Pace, I defer to Ryan Pace.

1:38.7

He's much smarter about this than me.

1:40.7

But I get to point three, which is where I'm kind of troubled, I hate the trade.

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