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Welcome to the UnderCenter podcast presented by St. Xavier University with our Bears contributor, Eric Strobel, Tony Gillis run the pod, and I am Kenneth Davis.

We got some stuff to jump in today.

And at the beginning of the show, a lot of us going to be unfortunate.

We're going to talk about the passing of Jeff Dickerson from ESPN, Bears reporter also host.

You know, it's sad here in Chicago if you've been a Bears fan for any amount of time.

I feel like there's a deeper community than I know, but there's even a community where you

kind of feel like you know these people if you didn't meet them in person.

And just the tragic loss of the life gone too soon.

And we also know his wife passed and his young son left behind.

So we're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about another legend, Dine, and John Madden, and maybe personal stories that we have.

So it's going to be a still football-centric show, but it may not be censored around the futility of the bears. But we're definitely talking about Matt Nagy still being here. So any report that he would have been fired, even though he was going to be fired, supposedly if he had lost. Well, he won. So Matt Nagy's still here. And of course, Alan Robinson returning from COVID and what he went through in battling COVID-19. How are you doing today, E?

I'm doing all right, Ken. It's a tough day, tough morning after a tough day. And a day like yesterday when you get terrible news like Jeff Dickerson passing away and leaving his 11-year-old son without either of his parents, it's just really, it really puts things in perspective, right?

We've been talking a lot over the last few weeks and months about the problems with the bears and how are they going to

fix these things and are they going to ruin Justin Field and it's just none of that matters

this morning right and rightfully so it's it's a tough morning and I don't even say that as

someone who's feeling a personal loss in terms of having known Jeff. I was not lucky

enough to have known or have met Jeff Dickerson. But I know a lot of people who did and worked

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