Moneyball – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike Pusateri are back with another deep dive into a great movie. This time it’s Moneyball, with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and…uh, Royce Clayton? You’ll find out why Art Howe was so happy with the movie (he…
Movie Deep Dive Podcast Announcement
The Movie Deep Dive podcast is back for a long run, and here’s a short podcast to explain what we’re up to and to pick the next movie. If you missed The Right Stuff Deep Dive we did last fall, go check it out. New ones are coming soon. Subscribe to the…
Do the Bears have the right coach, No. 1 receiver, offensive line and defense to lure Deshaun Watson?
Nope.
Early Super Bowl thoughts and the Bears never-ending QB search
The Big Game™1 is more than a week away, but it’s not too early for us to start breaking it down, especially since I can watch it now that the Packers aren’t in it. It’s a very real thing that I refuse to watch Packers games, regular season or…
McMichael stole the ball! McMichael stole the ball! – Remember This Crap
You all remember Cap Boso’s turf face. You might remember Jim Harbaugh throwing the game tying touchdown to Neal Anderson’s feet. But Blair Thomas will never forget Steve McMichael stealing a sure win out of his hands. It’s time to remember a Monday…
“Everything is on the table” except competence – Pointless Exercise Podcast
You thought you were done with the Bears for the season and so did we, but the mind-numbingly tone deaf and just plain bad press conference last week with George, Ted, Ryan, Matt and Ringo deserved a breakdown so Andy and Mike P. are here to do it. They try to figure…
Todd Bell murders Joe Washington in DC — Remember This Crap?
The 1984 Bears playoff upset of the Washington Footballers in DC is remembered for a lot of things: the Bears broke a 21 year playoff win drought, they did it with their fifth quarterback of the season, the old school Washington team had a straight ahead kicker, a…
Bears are cleaning house with a duster instead of a plunger – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Word leaked out after Andy and Mike P. recorded the podcast that Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace are coming back, but it’s not like the guys didn’t expect it. They look back at an uninspiring playoff effort, try to figure out why their Parler passwords don’t…
The playoffs trudge on, even without the Bears
Did you know that the NFL playoffs didn’t end with Mitch Trubisky winning the prestigious NVP Sunday after the Bears triumphant 21-9 loss to the Saints? I know, I’m as shocked as you are? How is anybody supposed to top winning a plastic blimp covered in…
If Mike Tomczak can beat the Saints, why not Mitch? — Remember This Crap
Sunday’s game will be the third time the Bears and Saints have met in the playoffs and the Bears have won the first two. You remember the 2007 NFC Championship game and Andy and Mike D. talk about that, but you probably don’t remember much about the 1991…
SpongeBob DrewPants – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears reward for losing to the Packers again is, inexplicably, a playoff spot. Andy and Mike P. look back at the Bears showing improvement against Green Bay and still losing by nearly three touchdowns, try to figure out what kind of defense that was supposed to…
Meaningful Bears-Packers games aren’t unique…but they also aren’t common – Remember This Crap?
It’s Packers week part deux and Andy and Mike D. are ready to look back at important Bears-Packers games in recent history (there really have been some) they also talk about the Jerry Lewis telethon, Tom Dreesen, Caleb Hanie, Chris Conte, Eddie Jackson returning…
Yu cheap bastards – EMERGENCY Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs traded their best pitcher to the Padres for four bags of teenage beans and whatever the hell Zach Davies is supposed to be and that called for an emergency podcast with Andy and Sam Fels. What the trade says about the Ricketts desire to win is all bad, and…
“Nobody hates a dullard” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears have inexplicably staggered back into playoff contention and Andy and Mike P. get you ready for Sunday’s sure-to-be-memorable tilt with the hated Packers. They go through all of the scenarios, look back at the Jags rousing halftime speech that…
The Bears have often played like a bunch of Jags – Remember This Crap?
The history of the Bears and Jaguars is neither long nor storied, but we’ll always have Keith Traylor and the crowning moment of Dick Jauron’s 2001 Bears juggernaut. Andy and Mike D. look back on all seven contests between the teams, try to figure out why…
Bears Playoff Fever. Catch it. And die. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. talk about the Bears win over the Vikings and how everything on Sunday broke against the best interests of the team long-term. Will the Bears still be motivated to change the GM or coach? Will Ted Phillips be given a big Publisher’s…
The peak of the ill-fated Wanny era – Remember This Crap?
It’s Vikings week part deux and Andy and Mike are Remembering This Crap about the Bears and Vikings which includes one of the rarest of all things in Bears history–a road playoff win, by Dave Wannstedt, no less–and tales of famous Vikings like Ted…
Please remind the Bears that Sunday proved nothing – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The guys look back at a the Bears first win in nearly two months and hope that it didn’t save anybody’s job–but it probably did. The talk about Mitch’s big day against a terrible, depleted Texans team, about whether they’d rather have the…