Welcome into the Charter podcast brought to you by St. Xavier University.

I am Ruthie Polinsky with my co-hosts, Alex Shapiro, and Clay Harbor.

And we are bringing this episode to you, taping this episode on a Monday.

And we will do sort of a state of the coaching search recap after a very eventful

weekend. And then we'll get into our latest profile because we found out just a few hours

ago that Mike McCarthy will not be returning to Dallas, which means he is a free agent and

open to interview everywhere else. So we'll have our professor, Alex Shapiro, give us sort of a rundown of Mike McCarthy.

What could he potentially bring to the Chicago Bears?

And we'll have a little bit of a discussion on that.

But let's start guys with just sort of the state of the coaching search.

Chicago Bears, Mike Brableble is off the market.

He, in a matter of days, had his interview with the New England Patriots and went into negotiations

over the weekend and had his introductory press conference today. So Mike Vrable is a New England

Patriot once again. And if you guys caught any of that

press conference today, some of the headlines, I mean, it's hard not to be fired up if you're

a New England Patriots fan and sort of what he brings and his mentality. I think it's disappointing

to know that there wasn't sort of a more aggressive push to make

him at least hold out for an in-person interview with the Chicago Bears.

Maybe they felt like it was a done deal, you know, even in the meeting they had with him

last week.

But I don't know about you guys. I'm a little disappointed

to know that there wasn't sort of a bigger push to get Mike Frable in the building, have him

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