No safety protocol from the NFL and camp is a week away

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The NFL and its players have yet to come to an agreement on safety protocols and training camp is scheduled to begin in a week. JJ Stankevitz, Laurence Holmes and Cam Ellis discuss the issues the NFL needs to fix before players report to camp, how will no preseason games impact the Bears QB competition, and how rosters being reduced to only 80 players could impact un-drafted free agents.(1:30) - How will no preseason games impact the Trubisky vs Foles battle?(9:05) - How will the NFL be ready to play if there are no preseason games?(15:00) - Safety concerns the NFL and players need to consider(22:55) - A lot of players will be cut with smaller rosters(31:00) - Will the NFL be able to finish the season?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	Hey everyone, I'm JJ Stankovits and welcome into another edition of the Undercenter podcast, brought to you by Sprinkler Fitter's Union Local 281.
0:12.5	On this episode, I'm joined by Cam Ellis and Lawrence Holmes to break down all the latest developments in what training camp will look like amid the COVID-19 pandemic and what the
0:21.7	NFL should actually do about playing preseason games or not in 2020.
0:27.6	All that and more on the Undercenter podcast starting right now.
0:30.5	What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question.
0:34.9	It means everything to me.
0:36.0	That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.
0:45.3	The history of it. I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchises, just kind of blows my mind, honestly.
0:52.3	That was able to be a part of that. The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise, the story franchise of the running back position with guys like Gail Sayers and Walter Payton and being able to follow in those footsteps.
1:07.0	So being a bear means everything.
1:09.0	What more can you say?
1:18.4	All right, JJ Stanktivet here with Cam Ellis and Lawrence Holmes.
1:24.8	As we are less than a week away from, I guess, maybe the start of training camp.
1:31.4	The NFL and NFLPA have yet to agree upon a return to camp protocol as of our taping this Wednesday afternoon. But there are a couple things that do look
1:38.9	like they're going to happen that do appear to have been agreed upon person reporting out there.
1:44.6	NFL networks, Tom Pelliserro, has been all over this.
1:47.4	So, guys, I want to start with the big one that the NFLPA really got their way on,
1:54.0	which is no preseason games.
1:57.2	The NFL initially said, okay, we're going to knock it down to two.
2:02.7	The NFLPA said, we don't want any. The NFL then said, okay, we're going to knock it down to two. The NFL PA said, we don't want any.
2:07.4	The NFL then said, okay, we'll come back, we'll play one. The NFLPA said that's stupid. We don't want any.
2:15.9	Now it looks like there will be no preseason games in 2020. That seems like that is not going to change right now. So Lawrence, what are the bears missing outside
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