What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the Charter podcast brought to you by St. Xavier University.

I'm Ruthie Polinsky with Clay Harbor and Alex Shapiro. We are back after what feels like was a long weekend. I don't know. Was it a long weekend? No.

It was just a weekend without bear stuff on the weekend.

It wasn't a long weekend, right. And also we just, I feel like I haven't seen your beautiful faces at a minute.

So everyone, I hope had wonderful weekends. We have a lot to get into some news we're going to talk about that transpired over the weekend and into today,

even this morning, that I think is really important to, it all has a little bit of relevance,

I think, for the Bears. And we're also going to dive into Clay's takeaways from last week.

Of course, mandatory minicamp is signed sale delivered, but we haven't really gotten Clay's takeaways from last week. Of course, mandatory mini-camp is signed sale delivered,

but we haven't really gotten Clay's perspective

who was also out there all three days last week.

And we can kind of take a deeper dive, I think,

into some of those topics continuing from Alex and my Thursday

wrap-up mini pod, micro pod, whatever you want to call it.

Let's start with, I guess maybe we could start with the news of the day and then we can kind of work our way backwards.

The news of the day is that the Green Bay Packers are releasing Jair Alexander,

who Bears fans are quite familiar with.

I think there's a lot to dive into.

Obviously, this affects the Bears

because they likely won't be going up against him twice a year.

But there was kind of a, he had a strange year last year, right?

There was some injuries.

He didn't play a ton.

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