Bears vs Viking postgame recap: The offense stinks

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Bears lost a clunker at home to the division rival Minnesota Vikings 19-13, making it four losses in a row. Nothing on offense seemed to change after offensive coordinator Bill Lazor took over play calling duties resulting in zero touchdowns. JJ Stankevitz, Cam Ellis, and David Kaplan recap the loss and breakdown all the various issues not only the Bears offense has but the organization as well.(1:12) - We should have seen this coming(11:40) - The Bears are stuck in mediocrity(20:40) - Should the Bears start over and gather picks?(28:25) - Is Robert Quinn one of Pace's worst decisions?(33:46) - Kaplan drops a bomb on how the Bears dismissed current Colts GM Chris Ballard from the running as Bears GM(40:30) - Do the Bears want to be better than mediocre?(49:15) - Game BallsSee 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. Stankovitz and welcome in to another edition of the
0:08.5	Undercenter podcast brought to you by St. Xavier University. On this episode, I'm joined by
0:14.3	Cam Ellis and David Kaplan to talk about, well, the bears stink. Their offense just stinks.
0:19.8	That's what we're going to talk about on this episode of the Undercenter podcast, starting right now.
0:25.4	What does it mean to be a Chicago bear?
0:27.7	It means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense.
0:34.3	I think it's the one franchise that when you think about them, being a defensive player myself,
0:38.3	I think that's the first thing you go to.
0:40.3	Legends, linebackers, defensive linemen, dominant players.
0:46.3	The history of it. I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first
0:51.3	franchise is just kind of blows my mind, honestly, because I was able to be a part of that.
0:56.0	Yeah, what more can you say?
1:02.0	All right, guys, I wrote this column after the game that we should have seen this coming. I was essentially,
1:16.1	I wanted to zoom back out and look at the root of the problem, the root of why the bears
1:23.4	have become a pathetic, unwatchable mess on offense.
1:31.1	And it's because they drafted the wrong quarterback in 2017.
1:36.2	We don't need to stand here and relitigate the 2017 draft,
1:39.1	which you know is an objective disaster for Ryan Pace.
1:45.8	But when you miss on the quarterback and you go all in on drafting the quarterback,
1:51.9	everything you do after to try to fix it is not going to work.
1:55.0	And that's what we saw on Monday night. We saw another culmination of everything the Bears have tried to do to cover for the fact that they screwed up
2:02.2	the quarterback decision in 2017 and frankly as a franchise have screwed up the quarterback
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