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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Roster Cutdowns Loom as Bears Get Reality Check vs. Chiefs

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Bears’ preseason clash with the Chiefs gave us plenty to unpack. Ruthie Polinsky, Clay Harbor, and Alex Shapiro break down the sloppiness from the starters, the wake-up call for the defense, and what stood out from Caleb Williams, D'Andre Swift, and the offensive line. Then Ruthie shares her exclusive sit-down with the Bears QB2 after his big weekend that included a contract extension and throwing the first pitch at the White Sox game. Plus, roster cutdowns are looming: which fringe players helped their case, and how will injuries shake up the 53-man roster?

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, everyone? Welcome back to the Charter Podcast, brought to you by St. Xavier University.

0:09.7

I'm Ruthie Polinsky, back with Clay Harbor and Alex Shapiro.

0:13.1

And we have a lot to get to because it is going to be a busy week for us, a busy week up at

0:18.5

Hallis Hall.

0:19.8

And we had a very eventful weekend that I think

0:23.0

we should also recap because starting, obviously, Friday night was the Bears game, La Dida.

0:28.3

Saturday morning, though, a big pro football show took to the court at Bulls Fest, and we played

0:36.6

the Chicago lead team. So it was Clay and I, and we played the Chicago lead team.

0:38.7

So it was Clay and I, and David, unfortunately, had his radio show for the baseball show.

0:43.3

So we had Kevin Lapka step in for David Haw for the Big Pro Football Show,

0:47.8

and we went up against Cam Smith, Gabe Ramirez, and Naomi, and the Big Pro pro football show came away with the dub at the

0:59.0

United Center on for the Bulls Fest three on three tournament. Obviously that is the headline

1:03.6

of the weekend and we will continue to brag forever as you should never in doubt you should brag until next year's bullsfest tournament

1:13.5

i would like for the listeners to understand my role in this which was hype queen and defense

1:22.4

and trying to stay out of everyone else's way that was really my goal goal. Clay was just yelling at me the whole game.

1:28.9

And I'm trying to like hype him up. And I'm like, yeah, Clay, let's go. Come on, Kevin. Let's go.

1:34.0

And Clay's like, Ruthie. She's like, get that, Ruthie.

1:38.6

I'm actually pretty embarrassed about my, um, myself. No, my performance, yes, but also, um um for being so competitive in this no are you

1:49.1

kidding are you kidding me i loved it we are all fired up i think we were all fired up i was just

1:53.8

sort of like there to remind everyone like we can celebrate the the good things like i feel like

1:58.4

everyone was just sort of pissed also it was hot and we are out

2:03.3

of shape. We're not in basketball shape. I mean, we're in good shape, but like, we're not in

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