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Joey Christopoul is filling in for John Zach Gull.

I want to thank John so much for always tapping me on the shoulder to come in and sub in for him.

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He does such a great job.

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cities, 92.9. Talk FM, 101, P.R. Sports Radio. All the like, follow. Link, like,

and subscribe us on YouTube and all your socials. Anyways, let's get to the Chicago Bears schedule.

It is out, baby. I can't wait. I'll be honest with you. At the end of the season, when you look at it and you pull it up, because the Chicago Bears finished in last place, right? They get the third

easiest schedule in the NFL. You think, wow, this is fantastic. They're playing the

opponent's records from last year. They're walking into the season. The slate of games of the

opponents that they're playing only registered a 467 win percentage. So a below 500 schedule

for the Chicago Bears. That seems really exciting. But then the schedule comes out, and I'm

going to be honest with you guys on first blush.

I don't like this schedule. The schedule is kind of tough. It's a lot tougher than I thought it was.

You look at these opponents and you know, you're saying to yourself, maybe gosh, maybe we get the Rams in the frigid cold weather of Chicago and December. That isn't happening.

Um, we played three AFC teams to knock off the schedule the first three weeks of the year. No division games until

week 11. Four of the last six games are on the road. That is crunch time when you are trying to

get yourself into the playoffs right now in three straight road games.

So look, it wasn't as, it wasn't as easy or as soft or cupcake as I thought it was going to be a first blush when I, when I looked it up.

And look, this just happened. I'm recording this at about 7.30 central time. So the schedule has leaked about a couple hours ago, but it became official about 30 minutes ago.

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