The most interesting things from the 2020 NFL Combine

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Host Laurence Holmes is joined by NBCS Chicago Bears writer Bryan Perez as they discuss the most important and interesting things about the 2020 NFL Combine for the Bears. They get into what teams get wrong about the Combine, and some realistic free agent options for the Bears.(1:29) - Ryan Pace needs to get this off-season right(5:30) - What teams get wrong about the NFL Combine(8:24) - Biggest need the Bears should address in the draft(12:40) - Which player had the biggest impact at the Senior Bowl and the Combine(16:27) - Can the Bears grab an instant impact player in the 2nd round(19:55) - How can the Bears upgrade the quarterback position(24:18) - The most interesting thing from the Combine 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	Today on the Undercenter podcast, what were the biggest stories that came out of the combine, and how do they affect the bears?
0:13.1	The Undercenter podcast is brought to you by Sprinkler Fitters Union Local 281.
0:18.0	What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question.
0:21.6	It means everything to me.
0:23.6	That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.
0:32.6	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, that was able to be a part of that.
0:41.3	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.
0:56.1	So being a bear means everything.
0:57.5	What more can you say?
1:07.7	Welcome into the under center podcast. I'm Lauren Tomes and I'm looking forward to a conversation with Brian Perez. Who are the Bears looking at?
1:11.2	Who should they be looking at?
1:12.7	Who opened up some eyes?
1:14.3	So let's get inside that conversation.
1:16.8	What was the first thing that you were thinking about when it came to the Bears?
1:21.7	So I think the thing with the Bears this year with the 2020 draft and with this year's
1:27.3	combine in particular is the importance
1:30.9	that is obviously placed on Ryan Pace to get it right this year more so than any other year
1:37.1	that he's been the team's general manager and I know that might not sound like it makes too much
1:42.8	sense from a pressure standpoint because general managers
1:45.9	are judged basically on a year-to-year basis. But this year clearly feels different, especially
1:52.0	once this team has gone from kind of a rebuilding team to suddenly a team that had Super Bowl
1:58.8	expectations in 2019. So the years of maybe getting it
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