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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Football Returns! Bears-Vikings Season Opener Preview

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Charter kicks off the season as Ruthie Polinsky and Clay Harbor break down Week 1 for the Chicago Bears. They start with Thursday night’s opener before diving into the Bears-Vikings matchup: how Chicago’s offensive line holds up against a disruptive front, why cadence can be a weapon against disguised looks, and what the defense must do to slow down Minnesota’s run game and a first-time starter at quarterback. They also hit on a few key injury concerns and share why manageable downs will decide the night.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone?

0:06.2

Welcome back to the Charter podcast brought to you by St. Xavier University.

0:09.7

I'm Rie Polinsky with Clay Harbor.

0:11.6

And we are getting ready for the NFL season, which kicks off tonight, Cowboys and Eagles.

0:17.7

We'll talk a little bit about that game.

0:19.9

And then we'll get into season

0:22.1

predictions bears vikings football season is here clay harbor it feels like christmas i know it's

0:27.6

finally here it's like is it actually happening and also fly eagles fly for those of you don't know

0:33.5

if you listen to this you probably do know e Eagles were the team that drafted me. So we are

0:37.5

rooting for the Eagles tonight. Okay, love that. You're wearing a little shade of green for

0:42.5

anyone who's watching our show right now and not listening. You are watching us in our gorgeous

0:48.2

new podcast studio here at CHSN. We are so grateful to our producer, Edgar, for getting this

0:53.8

all unfolded and unpacked and

0:56.7

looking gorgeous and we love it it's really beautiful like I'm in the city right here

1:01.8

yeah it's like we're right on the river yeah okay we love it all right clay let's get into this

1:08.4

vikings bears showdown as we heard from from Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams yesterday, we got our first injury report just minutes ago.

1:17.1

Obviously, with this being a weird schedule week, we got the injury report for the Bears just a little while ago.

1:25.1

What are you thinking for this matchup?

1:27.4

What will you be looking for? What's

1:29.0

going to be the biggest test for this Bears team? I think first you got to start off and you got to

1:33.4

make sure that Braxton Jones is able to match up against Jonathan Granard. I think that's a huge

1:39.8

matchup for the Bears. Brackson Jones is a guy that just doesn't quite seem to be himself and him

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