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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Free Agents and Elite Pass Rushers to Target

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dive into the Chicago Bears offseason with Ruthie Polinsky, Alex Shapiro, and Clay Harbor. This Charter Podcast episode analyzes potential free agent targets from the Super Bowl, including offensive linemen Mekhi Becton and Trey Smith, and explores the high-stakes decision of trading for elite defensive players like Micah Parsons. We also discuss the  Montez Sweat trade and its impact on the Bears' draft strategy. Tune in for a breakdown of the Bears' offseason plans and the crucial decisions ahead.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the Charter podcast, brought to you by St. Xavier University.

0:09.2

We are back with another episode with Alex Shapiro, Clay Harbor. I am Ruthie Polinsky.

0:15.9

And we teased this in our last episode earlier this week as we kind of broke down the Super Bowl and now

0:23.0

we're going to sort of localize it a bit as to what players that played in the Super Bowl

0:29.9

could potentially be targets for the Bears this off season. So let's break it down because I think

0:36.6

let's start with the offensive linemen,

0:40.1

because there's a number of them on both teams, both the Chiefs and the Eagles that are

0:45.0

set to hit free agency at this moment. So let me talk to, so sorry about that. Let me talk to Alex

0:53.9

Shapiro, you first.

0:55.2

Let's kind of start with, should we go team by team?

0:58.5

Let's do Eagles first.

1:00.2

How would you prioritize sort of the bear's needs and whether or not there is a player on the Eagles

1:09.5

who you think the bears should go after big time.

1:12.1

There's actually a huge fit here, Ruthie.

1:15.1

You set this up so perfectly.

1:17.6

So thank you very much.

1:19.1

So for me, the big needs obviously are in the interior of the offensive line.

1:24.0

I mean, guard center guard.

1:25.8

The Bears could honestly have three new starters right there.

1:29.0

And on the Eagles, there was a guy who played pretty well all year after a rough start to his

1:35.0

career who could really be part of the next iteration, the new vision of the Bears offensive line,

1:41.4

Mackay Beckton. During Ryan Poles, the start of his tenure really leaned towards smaller, athletic,

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