How can the Bears fix the offensive line in 2020

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The 2019 Chicago Bears had a lot of issues which resulted in a subpar season, one of which was the offensive line. Host Laurence Holmes is joined by NBCS Chicago's Bears reporter JJ Stankevitz to discuss what were the issues for the poor line play, and how can they fix it for the 2020 season.(1:45) - Could the Bears land Trent Williams from Washington?(5:15) - Evaluation of the Cody Whitehair and James Daniels switch and switch back(9:15) - Is it Mitch Trubisky's fault the O-Line didn't play better?(12:30) - Can Rashaad Coward be the answer at tackle(15:30) - Firing of offensive line coach Harry Hiestand(18:32) - Matt Nagy on new offensive line coach Juan Castillo(22:00) - Can the Bears find offensive linemen in the draftSee 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	Today on the Under Center podcast, we're going to not talk about the quarterback, kind of.
0:12.1	But we are going to talk about the people that are protecting the quarterback.
0:15.5	Where can the bears get better on the offensive line?
0:18.9	That's coming up next.
0:20.4	What it means to me to be a Chicago
0:22.7	bear, it's an easy question. It means everything to me. That means rich tradition,
0:28.5	black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers. The history of it. I mean, I'm a big
0:36.9	history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchises just
0:40.3	kind of blows my mind, honestly, that was able to be a part of that.
0:44.3	The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise, the story franchise of the
0:51.3	running back position with guys like Gail Sayers and
0:54.3	Walter Payton and being able to follow in those footsteps. So being a bear means everything.
0:59.2	What more can you say?
1:05.2	The Under Center podcast is brought to you by Sprinkler Fitters Union Local 281,
1:10.4	serving Chicago land for over 100 years.
1:13.6	I'm Lauren Thames and on today's episode, JJ Stankovitz and I are going to try to talk about the
1:18.9	offensive line.
1:20.6	There were a lot of issues on the offensive line that affected everything that the Bears wanted to do.
1:25.6	We're going to dig deep onto why this happened by breaking down the five guys that are
1:30.2	primarily your starters for this offensive line and see if it makes any sense to go out and
1:36.8	try and make a trade for Trent Williams or decide in the draft what you want to do.
1:43.0	So let's get after it with JJ.
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