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

I'm Ruthie Polinsky with Alex Shapiro on this Friday, and we are absolutely thrilled to be joined by the one and only.

Herb Howard joining us to talk about this very enticing, exciting Green Bay Packers game on Sunday.

I really appreciate that y'all for having me. Thanks so much. Herb, I guess we'll start

here. Let's talk about the game because there is one to be played on Sunday.

All right.

What are you looking for on Sunday from the Chicago Bears?

And how important is it for this locker room, this group, where they're probably going

to look this group very similar next season?

Like there's not going to be a ton of change on this roster.

How important is it for them to go out, as Jalen Johnson said, with a bang?

Yeah, I think this is important for them to continue to compete, just not be quitters,

which I haven't really seen from this team. I don't really believe that about the players in this

locker room that they've kind of thrown in the towel, so to speak. They just continue to find

ways to lose games and it's gotten worse and worse as time

has gone along. But I don't think they have a group of guys that's just going to go out there

and not compete. And not only just because it's the Packers game, or it's at Lambo, but just because

they want to put good things on tape and they're real competitors. And so I think you got guys,

you know, like Jalen Johnson, like T.J. Edwards, like D.J., they're going to go out there and compete.

Will that translate into a win this weekend? We'll see. But I think they'll go out there and put good things on tape because I'm with you, Ruthie. I don't see a lot of turnover

happening on this roster. A lot of people have been asking me lately, like, well, who do you think

is going to be back on this team? Make sure I'm like, most of these people are going to be back on this team, make sure, like you're going to flip the offensive line if you can.

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