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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

With or Without Lamar: What a Bears Victory Would Really Mean

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ruthie Polinsky and Clay Harbor break down the stakes for Chicago heading into Week 8 against the Ravens. They discuss the defense’s breakout performance this season and what Caleb Williams needs to clean up after a shaky outing vs. the Saints. The crew hits on Tremaine Edmunds’ renewed play, Colston Loveland’s growing role, why the run game is finally rolling, and how Ben Johnson’s leadership is setting the tone. Plus: what a win with Lamar would really say about this Bears team.

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone?

0:06.4

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

0:09.7

Ruthie Polinsky, Clay Harbor.

0:11.4

We are on to week eight.

0:13.9

Dang, already.

0:15.8

We are on to week eight.

0:17.9

I, for whatever reason, Clay, today I am a little snoozy I know but we we got a

0:23.8

coffee we got the coffee so we're good see you went you went lid and and holder and and what's

0:30.2

that thing called to make it not so hot yeah I don't know what it's called I don't know what

0:34.5

like the actual term I went I went open cup, no lid, no holder.

0:41.8

So just want our different listeners to know. You're tougher than me. Does that say more about

0:46.0

Ruffy or more about clay? I think it says more about more about me. I'm a little bit boozy sometimes.

0:50.8

I like my coffee to be a certain temperature. So it's got to be really hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I need a holder. It's actually probably smarter for me to do that because it does take me a long time to drink my coffee. Like I can't really chuck it. Anyways, this is a Bears podcast. But we're caffeinated on this Thursday. We're caffeinated and ready to go. And I think we got some some good stuff to talk about.

1:12.4

Clay, the bears are four and two. The bears are four and two. The bears are four and two. And they are a Lamar Jackson away from being five and two.

1:20.5

Exactly. So not necessarily. I don't want to overreact. But that's kind of where our head is right now,

1:29.8

is that, you know, Bears Nation is on Lamar Watch,

1:34.0

who practiced in a limited capacity on both Wednesday and Thursday.

1:37.9

We're taping this on Thursday afternoon.

1:40.4

And I think there's a little bit of gamesmanship going on here. I think the Raiders want to keep it

1:47.2

close whether or not he's playing. And I think it could probably come down to Lamar being a

1:53.7

game time decision. And it makes sense because the Baltimore Ravens have lost 11 of the last 13 games.

1:59.8

Lamar Jackson hasn't played it. The fall off between

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