Welcome back to the charter podcast, brought to you by St. Xavier University,

Ruthie Polinsky, Alex Shapiro, Clay Harbor, back with you after the weekend of the

2025 Bears rookie mini camp.

I was out there on Friday and Saturday.

Clay and Alex were both out there all three days of the weekend.

God bless you both.

It was gorgeous weather, which was kind of fun to kind of be out there.

It was so fun to, I think, just watch football again, right?

Like, that's obviously always fun.

And there were so many things that we can take away from it, including what we learned about

the coaching staff, I think, was another sort of underrated storyline going into the weekend of,

you know, during the season, during the NFL season for people who may not understand,

the media doesn't get to watch full practices.

Like, we just get a certain portion of stretching mostly, maybe individual drills, like maybe one-on-ones,

but like that's really just like training camp. Training camp, we get to watch everything, but, you know,

there are portions of practice during the regular season that are

closed off to the media. So it's been a while since we've gotten to watch a full practice,

which we got to do not only with new players that, you know, the majority of them we've never

seen before. Of course, there are a couple of guys, you know, practice squad guys who were out there.

But it was also really cool to watch the coach's coach

because this is a brand new staff, very few holdovers on the staff as well. So we're going to

dive into all of it today. Alex and Clay are here to unpack their brains and empty their notebooks

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