Welcome, welcome back to the C.H.O. Bears podcast on a football Friday. I am your host, Greg Braggs, Jr., alongside me, as always, on our Fridays, is Mark Carmen.

Adam Rank will be joining us here in just about 13 minutes. Adam Hogue will be joining us here a little bit later on as we rank the Chicago Bears top roster needs for 2025.

So how are you doing, Mark?

How's everything going?

Northwestern with a big win last night.

USA falls to Canada.

So our collective hearts broke as USA lost in overtime and a thrilling hockey exhibition but

we're talking football here today yeah great night for hockey Greg uh was to see you a lot of

attention on the sport that it hasn't had like that and in quite some time so that was

the outcome really didn't uh have anything to do with people

enjoying the sport, which was cool. And, yeah, look, I'm excited for today's show. It's actually

a really good thought exercise for me going through the needs and trying to figure out, like,

who do you value on the roster and want to give sort of a tip of the cap to

as somebody who you think can get better? And then who are you basically out on? Therefore,

you're moving them up on the rankings of needs. And I know that, you know, hey, we're,

we're taking a little peek at, uh, perhaps a

bear's target. I doubt it. But, uh, you never know what, what, uh, what they're thinking

about a gentleman by the name of Joey Bosa, which I know. Yeah. Yeah, let's look into it.

I mean, uh, so I guess I'll frame it in this way because, you know, obviously the headline was, you know, the Bears may target Joey Bosa.

If he does, in fact, become available, you know, I saw a thing from Dan Graziano here and I know some Bears fans were reacting to it yesterday, where he goes on to say that, you know, you got to look at the possibility of the Chargers

cutting Joey Bosa. He's scheduled to make, this is Dan Graziano reporting this, he's scheduled

to make $25.36 million this season, but nearly half of that comes in the form of a 12.36 million

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