Welcome to Sports Talk Chicago alongside Sam Ober. I'm Matt Cozy.

As we fill in for John Z, producer John Meadows is at the controls back at the metal shop in Oakbrook.

And Sam and I can be heard every weekday over at Lockdown Cubs on YouTube and everywhere you get your podcast.

Great opportunity to fill in for John this week.

And shout out to all of the great affiliates on the Sports Talk Chicago Network.

Really impressive what John has built.

We are on the radio right now, 101.1, Peoria Sports Radio, 98.3, The Life.

W. KAN, 1320 a.m. and 101.3 FM. 1055, the ticket. Cities, 92, 929. And on TV, on ACTV and WJOB, Jed TV. On today's show, we're going to be talking

Bears, Big Ten basketball, and a lot more. And then really excited to welcome our guest,

Cole Wright, from the Marquis Sports Network, as Cole will be here to talk all things, Cubs.

And maybe we sneak in a Bears question or two to him as well.

And Bears is where we're going to start today's episode.

But before that, Sam, excited to have this opportunity as a duo,

and let's get our sports talk Chicago on.

Yeah, I think you pretty much nailed the intro, man. So let's get to my wheelhouse, which is not bad, talking a little sport. Bears coverage right now, mostly surrounding

Justin Fields, not being traded yet, but also the free agent frenzy, I think, has been suspect at best.

We all assumed and perhaps assume wrongly that the Bears were going to trade Fields

before the beginning of free agency this week.

And as we sit here to record, Fields is still on the Bears roster. And I think he's

on the roster because the Bears think he's a starting quarterback, whether it's for them.

Well, whether it's for them or another team. So, Sam, here are two scenarios that I want you to

respond to.

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