Welcome back to the Charter Podcast, brought to you by St. Xavier University.

I am Ruthie Polinsky, along with Alex Shapiro, and we are pleased, honored, excited, thrilled,

all the things to have Mark Podash joining us here on the Charter podcast to help us preview

this Lions game. I guess we're

sort of previewing this Lions game, but Pottsy, we're going to talk mostly about some big

picture stuff because there's not a lot of game, I think, to get excited about this weekend.

Let me just get your sort of overarching feelings at this juncture in the season. You've covered a lot of

Bears teams. You've covered a lot of highs, a lot of lows. Where are you right now?

Well, in a similar state, just kind of a resign to another season that's always,

they always seem like they're ones more disappointing than the other. And we've all looked back

now at some of these really disastrous seasons. We go back to 2014, which was an absolute

disaster. And somehow this is actually worse than that because the expectations were so great.

And everybody thought that they had finally gotten it right and it could not have

been worse. So just more of the same. I'm not sure what else to say anymore at this point.

This is just, you know, the bears are the bears. And I guess that's the one thing that's kind of been

most discouraging is now people who have been through it as many times as maybe not as many times

as I have, but so many times are kind of getting this feeling like, you know, maybe this thing will never get fixed.

Maybe they have bigger problems than just this particular team or this particular leadership.

And so I'd say discouraged is kind of the tone, I think, of Bears fans and everybody

surround outside of Hells Hall, just outside of of Hellsaw, not the media room.

You kind of touched on it a little bit, but I was curious,

where do you think this ranks as an all-time disappointing season?

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