Bears vs Saints SUPER playoff preview: IT’S PLAYOFF TIME!

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

For the second time in three years, the Bears are in the playoffs! To preview the biggest game of the year, (after last week's biggest game of the year) hosts JJ Stankevitz and Cam Ellis bring on two heavy hitters. First, a player who has played for both franchises, a man you know and love: Alex Brown from the Football Aftershow! Alex joins the pod to discuss the ways the Bears can upset the Saints, and what this playoff berth means for the Bears. Later in the pod, JJ and Cam are joined by veteran football writer Luke Johnson from the New Orleans Advocate to get a rundown on the Saints, and whether Drew Brees and them boys can handle the Bears. (1:25) - Alex describes his relationship with his son Antonio Brown from the Headstrong series episode (8:05) - The difference between regular season football and playoff football (13:05) - Akiem Hicks is the most important player for the Bears on Sunday (17:00) - Alex Brown does not trust Matt Nagy to consistently run the ball (24:30) - Luke Johson of the New Orleans Advocate joins the podcast (26:20) - Will Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara play vs the Bears? (30:30) - Are the Saints a legit championship contender this year? (32:45) - The Bears are one of the teams the Saints didn't want to see (37:00) - Has the downfall of Drew Brees been overblown? (40:10) - JJ and Cam wrap up the Bears vs Saints SUPER previewSee 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	Hey everyone, I'm J.J. Stankovits and welcome into another edition of the Undercenter podcast, brought to you by St. Xavier University.
0:11.3	On this episode, Cam Ellis and I are joined by Alex Brown and Luke Johnson from the New Orleans Times Picayune to preview Sunday's Bears, Saints wildcard playoff game. Got a lot of good stuff to get to,
0:22.6	so let's get going right now on the Under Center podcast, starting right now.
0:27.0	What does it mean to be a Chicago bear? It means rich tradition, black and blue division,
0:34.7	defense. I think it's the one franchise that when you think about them, being a defensive player
0:39.8	myself, I think that's the first thing you go to.
0:42.3	Legends, linebackers, defensive linemen, dominant players.
0:48.3	The history of it.
0:49.3	I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchises just kind of blows my mind,
0:55.1	honestly, that was able to be a part of that.
0:57.3	I mean, what more can you say?
1:04.1	All right, JJ Stankovitz here on the Under-Siner podcast with Cam Ellis and our guy, Alex
1:08.9	Brown, from the Football After Show.
1:10.3	You know him from many
1:11.6	Bears playoff games. And we wanted to bring someone on who has experienced playing in the
1:15.6	playoffs for the Chicago Bears. AB, thanks for taking the time with us today. Absolutely. I'm
1:19.5	you got. You know. So I want to start, we'll get into the playoff stuff later, but we did just
1:25.8	put out if our listeners didn't see it, a special
1:28.3	episode of the Undercenter podcast where Eric Strobel, our producer here, interviewed your son,
1:33.3	Antonio. And it's for our Headstrong series. Really, really great stuff. I encourage everyone who
1:41.0	subscribes to the Undercenter podcast, go listen to that right now. I thought
1:44.9	it was really great. It's really cool to see what your son is doing. But A.B., just, can you talk
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