Poles and Eberflus Live and Unplugged – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The guys break down the first Ryan Poles-Matt Eberflus press conference by playing it back and making fun of it. They find the whys, they try to follow Matt’s weird, overly complicated acronyms for everything, they relive the emotional moment when Ryan first…
Kelly Dwyer Returns – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Second Arrangement’s Kelly Dwyer returns to the podcast to talk about pertinent, timely things like how the Bulls can fill their power forward void, why it’s weird that George McCaskey wears a Bears’ letterman jacket, Easy Ed Macauley, Larry…
Bill, Ted, George, Tanesha and Soup’s Excellent Coaching Search Adventure – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
George McCaskey drops by to join the guys on the podcast as they discuss the firings of Bears’ GM Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy. George explains why hiring an 80 year old consultant who seems to be just trying to sell a book is the key to finally finding a…
Jim McMahon has had enough of this sh*t – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the Bears and Vikings playing another meaningless season finale on Sunday, we look back to a more important game, one of the coolest in Bears’ history. It’s Monday Night Football on Thursday early in the 1985 season and the illustrious crew of Frank…
Learning the right lessons – Bears v. Giants – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears dominated a really terrible Giants team and the guys discuss whether or not the McCaskeys learned any of the right lessons from it. They also wonder if the inept play of an opposing QB has ever gotten a general manager fired. (Fingers crossed.) They bask in…
Best of the Giants – Remember This Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
If you didn’t hear it last year, or you have a less than great memory all of this stuff is new to you. There’s a lot of crap to remember about two of the oldest and most similar franchises in NFL history, the New York Giants and our beloved Bears. From Tom…
Why can’t the Bears ever do the obvious thing? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
It was a Christmas (day after) miracle! Nick Foles led the Bears to a win in snowy Seattke and the guys are here to bask in the glow of a hard fought victory and wonder why the Bears haven’t fired head coach Matt Nagy yet. They discuss what the delay might mean,…
The Bears favorite playoff foes, the Seahawks – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Seahawks have played more times than you think in the relatively short (compared to the Bears) history of football in Seattke, but there have been some really memorable games. Hey, if it wasn’t for them Lovie might not have ever won a playoff game!…
We all need to be put out of our misery – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears played a spirited but incompetent game at home against the Vikings and lost. Matt Nagy kept losing his mind–or what’s left of it–on the sidelines. Teven Jenkins decided somebody had to finally stand up for their quarterback. A sixth round…
Walter Payton destroys the Vikings…again – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the Bears and Vikings ready to see if anybody’s healthy enough to play on Monday, the guys look back at a classic matchup of the two teams from 1979. Seriously. It’s a CBS production with a young Bob Costas teaming with current Bears’ all-time…
More primetime indignity – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears went up to Lambeau Field to humiliate themselves and us and they managed to not do it for an entire half! Heady times. Andy and Mike P. break down the fluky first half and the predictable fiasco that was the second half. They try to figure out what kind of…
This Bears Packers thing used to be the other way around – Remember This Crap? – 1985 Monday Night Football
You might not be old enough to remember that it used to be the Bears who handed out the repeated thumpings in Packers games, but Mike D. and Andy do, and they are taking a look back at one of the most humiliating nights in Packers’ history. It was a Monday night…
The beginning of the end of the beginning of the end? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears and Cardinals played what technically met the minimum qualifications for an NFL football game on Sunday and Andy and Mike P. are ready to break it all down, tell you what they saw on the all-22 footage and…, well, mostly they’re just going to…
The Bears oldest and most irrelevant rival – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and the Cardinals go back to even before they both played in Chicago, and yet, there aren’t that many memorable games in the 121 year history of the “rivalry.” The guys take a look back at how the rivalry got started, the many moves of the…
Bears ruin another Thanksgiving – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears and Lions put America through an unwatchable slog in the early game on Thanksgiving and Mike P. and Andy are here to talk about it, about the weird week that preceded it (even by Bears’ standards), and about where the Bears go from here. They have…
Thanksgiving Special – Remember This Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Few teams have ruined more Thanksgivings for their fans than our Bears, and Mike D. and I felt it necessary to Remember This Crap about the many times the Bears have caused us indigestion on Turkey Day. They’ve been better on that day than you might think, then…
Nobody drives the narrative like our Bears – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears played a wet turd of a game on Sunday against the Ravens, the only reason to watch them got hurt, Matt Nagy blew all three second half timeouts in spectacular fashion, and on Tuesday morning we thought it all finally got him fired. Until he wasn’t….
Remember This Crap: “Did that guy go to prison?” Bears-Ravens – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Ravens don’t have a long, illustrious history but the Bears have gotten the better of Baltimore in the series, even if the Ravens have been a more consistently good team than the Bears during the last quarter century. Andy and Mike D. recall Ravens…