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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Ep. 94: Should Bears try a Cubs-style rebuild?

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

“Don’t overthink it!” Laurence Holmes, Alex Brown and Jim Miller discuss where the Bears go from here in their coaching search after ending the season 5-11. Alex compares the Bears to the rebuild of the Cubs – now they just need to find their own Theo Epstein. The guys evaluate Mitchell Trubisky’s rookie season and weigh in on what the Bears need to address in the offseason. Plus – find out why Alex says the Bears should just skip a visit to the NFL Combine entirely!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 the Under Center podcast, Lawrence Holmes, Jim Miller, and Alex Brown here with you.

0:12.0

The bear season is now over. The team is now 5 and 11, and changes are about. So before we go to the changes themselves,

0:24.9

I just love to know from you guys,

0:27.8

how difficult was this watching this season

0:31.4

where maybe you thought that going into the season

0:35.1

things would be a little bit better

0:36.4

and they seemed to get a whole lot worse before there was better.

0:40.6

Well, I'll let Alex speak for himself, but I don't know, but for me, it's painful when

0:45.8

you watch a team and organization that you played for, and they just, how they've been struggling

0:50.6

as of late.

0:51.9

It just, it bothers me personally because I want the bears to do well,

0:55.6

and I did. I thought that bears would be a, I thought they were better than advertised. I do think

0:59.7

they were an overall better team roster-wise, but in terms of the play, you know, it just,

1:05.1

it just didn't materialize in terms of win totals. I think we know why they're young, they're

1:10.1

inexperiencedienced and they still

1:11.2

have empty areas of this football team that really weren't productive all year. Wide receiver

1:16.4

obviously is one that really sticks out for everybody, I think. Yeah, it does. It pisses me off.

1:21.8

I don't like it at all. You see them play to a level where they can beat a Pittsburgh.

1:27.7

They can beat the playoff teams.

1:28.9

They can beat a team fighting for the playoffs into Carolina Panthers.

1:31.9

They can be right there and should have beaten the Atlanta Falcons.

1:35.3

And then you see them go out and they lose the teams that you're just like, wow, I cannot

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