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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

NBC’s Tony Dungy on Jeff Saturday, Justin Fields, and future of the Bears

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Justin Fields has made significant improvements over the last several weeks and has garnered the attention of the national media for his improvements. NBC analyst and Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy joins Ken Davis, Alex Shapiro, and Josh Schrock to discuss his thoughts on the Colts hiring his former player Jeff Saturday. Later, they discuss Justin Fields' growth and the Bears' future. Finally, the crew makes predictions for the Bears' Week 10 match-up against the Lions. 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

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0:03.7

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0:08.8

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0:13.8

St. Xavier University.

0:30.6

I'm always fortunate enough to be joined by our Bears insider Josh Shrock.

0:34.7

Follow him at Shrock underscore and underscore all. And of course, our

0:38.5

Bears beat reporter Al Shapiro, follow him at Alicapiro NBCS. Today, we're fortunate enough to be

0:44.2

rejoined by NFL Hall of Famer, a great coach, studio analyst of football night in America,

0:50.6

the one and only Tony Dunjy. How are you doing today, Tony? I'm doing well, guys. What's going on up there in Chicago?

0:56.6

Well, you know, we have to talk Justin Fields, but, you know, now that got bumped because we have to find out your feelings on your former player, former center, Jeff Saturday, getting the head coaching job for the coach, your old position, having never coached in the pros a day in his life.

1:12.2

How did you feel and did you know that that was actually going to take place?

1:15.8

I did not know that was coming. I was probably just as amazed as most of the country was.

1:21.7

I'd actually talked to Jeff about four days earlier. We're trying to work on me coming down for

1:26.5

speaking engagement in this home area in Atlanta.

1:30.2

And hadn't talked about this at all.

1:32.3

Of course, we talked about the Colts a little bit and how we could get them going.

1:35.7

But I can kind of understand how Jim Ursay was feeling.

1:39.4

I personally wouldn't have made a move at this time.

1:42.1

I think Stan, of course course gives you the best chance

1:44.9

to win games right now and possibly make the playoffs. But I know what he was looking at. Somebody

1:50.1

who can lead, who can galvanize, who can bring the group together. And he felt Jeff could do that.

1:56.7

Also, when they were playing really well and they were a playoff team, their offensive line was the focal point of the team.

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