Welcome in everybody to the latest edition of the Charter podcast presented by St. Xavier University.

I'm Michael Bowling.

Alongside me is Kevin Lapka and Clay Harbor.

And guys, what a clunker we just watched out in Arizona after the Hail Mary debacle last week.

And give yourself an opportunity.

Obviously, you play the next game on the schedule.

You have a chance to kind of right the ship and they fell flat on their face.

So, Clay, I won't waste any time.

I'll kick it to you.

What were your immediate reactions to this

pretty awful loss? Man, I would say embarrassing for the Bears, especially coming off of last week.

And who would have thought when you put all that out in the media and you have a week like they

had airing your dirty laundry and everything that

you're doing there that you come out and you don't play up to your ability. And obviously,

you can look at a number of things for excuses. Yeah, there's no Jaquan Bresco, there's no Kyler

Gordon, Montez sweat before the game isn't active. So you do have some main cogs missing there.

But offensively, firstly, obviously I'm an offensive guy.

There's no rhythm to Shane Waldron's offense.

It doesn't seem like you're getting Caleb Williams any easy completions.

And Caleb obviously didn't play great.

But I think there's a disconnect between Waldron and Caleb in my first overall impressions before watching the All-22.

And defensively, I thought the Bears took a step back.

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