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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Debating Bears’ major offseason upgrades and key player moves

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Join Kenneth Davis and Alex Shapiro on the latest Under Center Podcast as they dive into the Chicago Bears' most impactful offseason moves. They discuss DeAndre Carter joining the Bears as a WR and return specialist, bringing competition for Velus Jones (2:10). The signing of TE Marcedes Lewis and its significance is explored (5:52), followed by a comprehensive look at the top upgrades the Bears made, including D'Andre Swift and Keenan Allen (10:53). They analyze the replacement of Robert Tonyan with Gerald Everett (23:26) and Shane Waldron’s strategy to maximize Ryan Poles’ upgrades (27:11). The episode also covers Kevin Byard over Eddie Jackson (31:45), the punter change from Trenton Gill to Tory Taylor (37:04), and the Bears' bold attempt to trade up for Rome Odunze but the Atlanta Falcons passing (40:28).See 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

St. Xavier University is for students who want more out of their future.

0:04.1

We pride ourselves on preparing graduates with the skills they need to succeed in life.

0:08.7

Visit xxu.edu to start plotting your path to a brighter tomorrow.

0:13.8

St. Xavier University, the best in you. We have signings, upgrades, and perhaps trades.

0:31.4

Going back to the draft, this is the Undercenter podcast presented by San Xavier University.

0:35.9

Of course, you know, I got my my guy Alex Shapiro here with me,

0:38.1

our Barrett's B. reporter. I'm Kenneth Davis. We are broadcasting virtually from the NBC podcast

0:42.5

studios. Tony Gill and Kurt Flippier running the show. Josh is out. Alex, my guy coming in from the

0:48.7

Canadian Wilderness. How are you doing? I am great. You said I'm back from the Canadian wilderness. I'm finally a Manitoba

0:57.0

master angler. So I'm very happy. I underwent a transformative weekend in Manitoba

1:01.8

catching a lot of monster pike. I have literally never been better, Kenneth. Real quick,

1:07.4

where did you all fly in from here to get there? Where was the airport?

1:12.2

Wow.

1:13.0

I'm so glad you asked that question.

1:16.0

I have not shared this story with Kenneth Davis.

1:18.1

This is new for everybody.

1:19.2

So it was actually a bit of a journey for us to make it to this lodge.

1:24.1

Plan was to fly into Minneapolis, then fly into Winnipeg, then take a charter from Winnipeg two hours north to our lodge in Manitoba.

1:34.3

What happened was we flew into Minneapolis because of delays, because Minneapolis is down to one runway right now under construction. We missed our connection to Winnipeg.

1:45.0

So we had to rent a truck and drive seven hours to Winnipeg where we arrived at two in the morning.

1:51.0

Charter then left at 5 a.m. and took us about, I don't know, few miles short of our lodge because of rain and fog, and they couldn't take us to our lodge.

2:04.2

So then from there, we had to take a helicopter from the one runway that worked a few miles away to literally the middle of camp.

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