Ep. 191: Are the Bears going after a big name free agent?

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

JJ Stankevitz, Cam Ellis and Paul Aspan wonder what the Bears will do with the cap space freed up by re-working Khalil Mack’s contract, plus dive into a big day for the Green Bay Packers and debate just how good Aaron Rodgers’ side will be in 2019.1:00 - The Bears created $11 million in cap space Tuesday morning. What should they do with it?6:00 - So…any shot at all Le’Veon Bell signs in Chicago?8:30 - Bidding farewell to Adrian Amos13:30 - Will a spending spree in free agency make the Packers any better in 2019?17:30 - How does Mike Davis fit in the Bears’ plans?23:30 - Evaluating the addition of Buster Skrine 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	Welcome in to another edition of the Under Center podcast here on NBC Sports Chicago.
0:13.1	I'm JJ Stankovic, joined by Paul Aspen and Cam Ellis on day two of the NFL's league tampering period.
0:20.3	Contracts can officially be signed tomorrow being Wednesday.
0:24.5	As the New York Jets found out, contracts that are agreed to are not necessarily always honored.
0:29.4	As Anthony Barr went back to Minnesota, we'll get into that later in the episode.
0:32.7	But I want to start with this guys.
0:34.6	The Bears this morning caused some waves when Field Yates from ESPN reported
0:39.1	that they had converted some of Khalil Mack's salary in 2019 into a signing bonus and in the
0:45.8	process freed up $11 million in cap space. This, of course, led to a lot of speculation that
0:52.8	the Bears were about to go make a big move.
0:55.2	Levion Bell, Earl Thomas, someone like that.
0:58.5	It's 3.30. That has not happened.
1:01.0	I wrote it at the time.
1:02.2	I didn't think that was what strategy Ryan Pace is going to take with it.
1:06.6	But now that we're a little bit further out, the news is kind of simmered for a little bit.
1:10.7	What do you guys think? Does Ryan Pace still have something up his sleeve as we're a little bit further out, the news is kind of simmered for a little bit. What do you guys think?
1:11.5	Does Ryan Pace still have something up his sleeve as we're recording?
1:15.2	Neither Earl Thomas nor Levion Bell is signed, or is this going to be more of a pragmatic
1:19.9	approach and he's going to use it to address some depth concerns?
1:22.6	So it'll definitely happen.
1:23.7	We're just at the office, so it's not going to happen now.
1:26.2	It's just we're still at the office, so it's not going to happen now. It's just going to happen. It has to be why I'm on the train.
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