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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Hard Knocks disappointments, Austin Booker’s growth, and Bears training camp insights

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Kenneth Davis and Alex Shapiro dive into the second episode of Hard Knocks, sharing their frustrations with the show's focus and exploring more compelling storylines they wish were covered (1:30). They highlight rookie pass rusher Austin Booker's development (12:13) and provide the latest Bears training camp updates, including the upcoming joint practice with the Bengals (19:00). Later, they discuss the ongoing search for the Bears' starting offensive line (23:20), Caleb Williams' continued growth after his impressive preseason performance against the Buffalo Bills (26:14), and Velus Jones Jr. learning to play running back as he fights for a roster spot (30:27).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

We got Hard Knocks episode two to discuss here on Under Center.

0:14.8

Our likes, our dislikes, and as you can see from his black, his background,

0:19.7

Alex Shapiro's at Hallisaw. So we definitely got updates

0:22.2

of what's going on at camp. Alex, how are you doing today, my God? I am doing wonderfully. It was a

0:27.6

glorious day at Halifol today. Well, that's great. And I'm looking forward to us, of course,

0:31.9

discussing it. We'll do that in our second segment, even though we're not going to break it up. Let's start off, of course, with hard knocks.

0:39.5

I didn't know.

0:40.2

I was just looking at the Tribune's Colleen Cain wrote that if you had HBO Max,

0:46.4

I actually do have Max, but I actually have HBO.

0:49.4

I haven't cut the cable like most intelligent people.

0:52.4

So I didn't know that you didn't get the episode to 75 minutes after it had already started,

0:58.0

which that would make me upset if I was a Bears fan and I was paying for a service to see something.

1:02.0

Nor in general if I have HBO Max and I care to watch Hard Knocks.

1:05.7

But again, I got to see it and recorded, so it was good to go.

1:09.9

Some of the highlights of the episode we have

1:11.7

of course the return of jonathan nolin's back to camp we have jalen johnson discussing

1:16.4

himself being rightfully upset about not making the NFL's players top 100 we of course got last

1:23.5

weeks or last weekend's uh preseason game in Buffalo, the ups, mostly the ups.

1:29.4

There were a few downs. Um, and of course, we got to talk about what happened with camp and

1:34.1

anything else we didn't care for us. So let's start off right there, Alex. Um, what did you think

1:38.8

about the show? Um, what do you want to kick it off with him talking about the show?

1:42.8

You know, I think the editors have done a

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