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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

EMERGENCY PODCAST: Bears trade Justin Fields to the Pittsburgh Steelers

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On an emergency edition of the Under Center Podcast, Kenneth Davis and Josh Schrock break down and react to the Chicago Bears trading quarterback Justin Fields (0:30). The guys discuss why more teams weren't vying for Fields (4:12) and the compensation the Bears got for him (7:15). Later, they discuss how Bears fans should react to the news (10:40) and recap Keenan Allen's introductory press conference (13:51).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

Emergency, emergency podcast.

0:03.8

I hope you were expecting it because we were going to bring it news that we've been kind of waiting for.

0:11.0

It's finally hit, and that's the fact that Bears quarterback Justin Fields has been dealt to the Pittsburgh Steeler for a 20, 25, 6th round pick.

0:19.5

Goes to be a fourth based on playing time.

0:22.8

That's from CBS Sports Senior inside of Jonathan Jones.

0:26.2

Josh.

0:27.1

51% of the snaps.

0:30.0

And I mean, Russell Wilson will have to be injured.

0:33.0

We'll get, no, I think I may.

0:35.0

We'll get to this.

0:36.0

But yes, 51% of the snaps becomes a fourth round pick. We'll get to, we'll get to this. But yes, 51% of the snaps becomes a fourth round pick.

0:38.3

We'll get to that. We can get to that. I mean, I, we can get to the spot for Justin later, but let's, let's get to the initial trade reaction.

0:46.6

Look, man, it was the right decision. I know there's been a ton of, I don't know about hand wringing. I honestly have been pretty adamant that I don't

0:54.6

think this was really a hard decision. I think the writing's been kind of on the wall since,

0:58.1

really since Justin heard his thumb. You know, I think we've talked about it. Like he just didn't,

1:03.1

he needed to show a lot all of last year and that included durability. And once the, once the

1:07.0

dumb injury happened, it was like, man, I don't know what he would have to show in the final seven games.

1:11.3

And he played better when he came back.

1:13.0

There's no question.

1:13.7

But even that better, you know, the passer rating was 82.

1:17.2

That was 21st in the NFL.

1:18.6

Like even the improvements, it was like, yeah, man, I, like, I don't know.

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