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St. Xavier University, the best in you. Welcome to the Undercenter podcast presented by Saints Avenue University.

I'm fortunate enough to be joined by our bear's beat reporter, Alex Shapiro,

follow him, Alex Shapiro, NBCS.

We're broadcasting live from the NBC podcast studios Tony and

Claire are running the show and fortunate enough today we have Carmen Vitale that covers the

NFC North for Fox Sports joining us again Carmen how are you doing today I'm doing wonderfully

thank you guys for having me thank you for having I mean for coming, for coming here. We appreciate it. You know, we always appreciate

joining us. It's always a fun time, even if our team isn't part of that way.

You still have to do. You got to find the fun where you can get it, right?

Exactly. I mean, I still feel like there was rays of sunshine this past week. I'm not just going to make it all murky dismal. There were some good times with the Bears game this past weekend versus Denver.

But anyway, so speaking of the Bears, of course, you, you cover the whole NFC North.

So just from your perspective, but also from what you hear, how do you and everyone outside of Chicago and in Chicago, it's not like you're not here, How do you view the Bears this season so far and what's become of what looked like was a promising roster?

Yeah, unfortunately, it seems that the Bears are finding new levels of dysfunction.

And it's not, it's on the field, it's off the field.

And I just, I don't know how they end up turning it around.

We saw some glimmers of hope like you alluded to on Sunday against the Broncos.

And I'm hoping that some of that stuff can stick, especially with what we saw out of the

offense in the first half.

And just the personnel, the groupings they were running, the play calls, stuff that Justin Fields was able to do.

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