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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Akiem Hicks leaves Chicago Bears to sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Akiem Hicks has been a top 2 or 3 player on the Bears since he's been in Chicago and now that the Bears are rebuilding he is taking his talents south to play with Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucs. What will the Bears miss out on and was it time to move on? Ken Davis and Josh Schrock discuss Hicks changing teams and break down if the defense can still be good with Hicks.(0:50) - The Akiem Hicks era is officially over(9:00) - Finding interior defensive lineman(13:00) - Going over the current Bears defensive lineman (20:00) - If the Bears have a top pick, will they trade down since they have a quarterback?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:08.7

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0:13.8

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0:34.1

Of course, I'm fortunate enough to be joined by Barrett's insider Josh Schrock.

0:37.3

Follow him at Schrock underscore and underscore all.

0:41.2

Tony Gil's running a pot.

0:42.4

Alex is out.

0:43.1

Of course, he's doing the business, and I'm Kenneth Davis.

0:46.1

Look, today is a little bit somber, to be honest with you.

0:52.2

Josh, just so you know, I think any the conversation initially, I'm put it like this,

0:57.5

I think initially when Akeem Hicks conversation had come up, me personally, I always felt like,

1:04.4

one, I didn't know if he wanted to move into the interior for the Bears, he was going to do a shift and what's the

1:12.7

point if they're doing a rebuild to not go for a contender like i always kind of felt he would i

1:17.7

didn't think i didn't know he would end up in Tampa bay and we're going to get into that and you

1:21.0

pointed out as with the sue situation how you felt but i didn't think necessarily he was going to

1:25.8

come back but he did tease it so everyone you already know that former Bears defensive end of Keem Hicks is reportedly signed

1:31.4

and the sitting-lating contract for $10 million this upcoming season to join Super Bowl contenders

1:36.1

to Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

1:38.6

Sombar, I think after he put out that photo a couple weeks ago, Sacking Aaron Rogers, he kind of had us all hoping,

1:46.7

perhaps there was a chance for him to come back

1:49.9

to the Bears and well, he's gone.

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