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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Postgame recap: Ranking George McCaskey’s performance in week 18

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Time for a full post-game breakdown ladies and gents on the Bears' number one starter, George Halas McCaskey. George put up some crazy numbers with two long awkward pauses, three bad jokes, one of the most awkward transitions we've seen, and a key takedown of one of the great Bears in Olin Kreutz. Ken Davis, Eric Strobel, and Alex Shapiro discuss McCaskey's game and if he's ready to be the leader the Bears need him to be going forward. BEAR DOWN!(1:20) -Initial reactions to McCaskey's performance in the clutch(14:20) -Has McCaskey put the right team around him to execute the "Game Plan"?(24:50) - George's strategy of questioning Olin Kreutz's character. "Let's see if it works out Cotton"(35:00) - Did George give up too much of the "Game Plan" by telling everyone his playbook, The Game Plan: The Art of Building a Winning Football Team by Bill Polian, sold everywhere books are sold?(45:00) - Who should be McCaskey's new head football coach?(55:00) - Has McCaskey looked over his film of past performances and learned from them?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

St. Xavier University is for students who want more out of their future.

0:04.0

We pride ourselves on preparing graduates with the skills they need to succeed in life.

0:08.7

Visit xxu.edu to start plotting your path to a brighter tomorrow.

0:13.7

St. Xavier University.

0:31.5

I'm always lucky enough to be joined by our Bears contributors, Alex Shapiro, and Eric Strobel.

0:37.1

Always check out Alex riding on NBC Chicago into My Teams app.

0:40.8

Of course, you know Eric produces on the football after show, and they're still on YouTube,

0:45.0

but they're still hilarious.

0:46.1

So go check those out.

0:47.6

Listen, we haven't had a show after the debacle that took place on Black Monday with George McCasky and,

0:56.7

and Ted Phillips in another room.

1:00.2

All right.

1:00.4

But first of all, my thoughts were, are they doing this because of COVID?

1:04.1

Like, I was like, I don't know.

1:04.9

I was like, oh, that'll be so cool if they're using that's their excuse to get away

1:08.0

with this.

1:09.4

But it was hilarious to say the least.

1:13.2

And I definitely want to jive in and get you two guys' opinions.

1:17.0

My initial reaction to a degree was, damn.

1:22.1

You know, as a Bears fan, you just hope that there would be some type of change after years and years of futility

1:29.6

to a certain degree.

1:30.5

Of course, the Bears have been to the Super Bowl in the last 35 years twice.

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