Pointless Exercise - A Desipio Podcast

The Bears and Seahawks are two of the best teams in football and at least one of them played like it. The Bears newest addition, Jeffery Simmons completely transformed the defense in his very first game, and Caleb Williams played like an MVP. The Bears smacked Seattke around from the very first minute. Re-live it with the RECRAP brought to you by Schlitz Beer.

The podcast has a new intro voiced by a Cubs Hall of Famer, and you get a chance to hear the whole, unedited thing. The guys talk about the Cubs outfield, a new job for Zach Zaidman (Lord willing), find out who called Oleg "Doug Flutie," why the Cubs are going to learn the wrong lesson from the Brewers, what ruined Michael Busch last year and how that can be fixed, something about Wrigley that Jed complained about for years then didn't mention last year, and a look at all of the superstar Cubs prospects who will soon be heading to the big leagues!

The Bears and Patriots gave Prime Video an actual good game. Luther Burden went off in the first half. Rome Odunze made clutch plays in the second half, and Cairo F'ing Santos made the longest field goal by a Bear in the history of Soldier(s) Field to ice it. Caleb Williams makes all the difference. And you know what? Drake Maye's pretty good. Insights like this and more as Schlitz Beer presents the Bears RECRAP.

So, it turns out that when the Bears have their best offensive player and their best defensive player they're pretty good. Caleb Williams returned from three weeks-plus on the shelf with a torn hammy and was great, and Kyler Gordon played his first regular season game since last Black Friday and dominated on a limited snap count. The Bears and the Falcons coaches limited Bijan Robinson to 61 yards rushing, and a late flurry of points made things a little tight at the end, but the Bears perservered to go 4-2.

NFL Champion player, Super Bowl Champion head coach, Hall of Famer, president of the Jim Harbaugh Fan Club, Mike Ditka can' t easily be summed up. But Remember This Crap is here to attempt it. The first modern pass-catching tight end as a player, he was traded away in his prime but was never the same out of Chicago, and he came back to coach a talented but rudderless team and won a road playoff game in his third season and a Super Bowl in his fourth (the Bears have more NFL titles than road postseason wins). He had a famous heart attack, got a famous DUI, repeatedly beat the Packers and loved it, and turned into the kind of sports icon that few cities ever have.

Andy, Oleg and Praz are here to dare to look back at the Cubs season and look ahead to what comes next. Are the Cubs really going to play both utility infielders in the outfield corners? Does Pedro Ramirez remind us of the player he really wants us to remind him of. Just how bad have the Cubs been at drafting pitching? What are they going to do with the bullpen? And, what should they do with Carson Kelly or Miguel Amaya?

The Bears went to Green Bay on a roll to face a pretty lousy Packers team, and Tyson Bagent gave them zero chance of winning, and then the defense decided to treat every Green Bay long pass like a tornado drill. The Packers can't stop the run, and the Bears are the best at running it, so naturally, they just didn't bother to do it. But hey, at least a lot of defensive players got hurt! Caleb might be back next week. Not a moment too soon.

Jed Hoyer's post-season press conference might not deserve to be picked apart comment by comment, but let's do it anyway. He seems to think he build a World Series roster that fell hilariously short, that the Cubs have elite hitting and defense and a teensy tiny bit of a pitching problem. Allow me to explain to him how much of that is wrong.

The Bears won a second straight game with a backup quarterback and technically they started the same guy, but Tyson Bagent played as well as his less than electric arm will let him in a 23-12 win over the Jets. The Bears dominated the entire game, but things got mildy spicy when a two-play TD drive by the Jets brought them within 11 points with 9:08 to go. The Bears never gave the ball back. That, honestly, was super impressive. It's the RECRAP brought to you by Schlitz.

It all started with two dopes and a dream. Before the Pointless Exercise Podcast there was The Other 15% Podcast, and the Hire Jim Essian/Desipio Podcast and then just the Desipio podcast. 500 episodes later, we're back where it all began with special guest and original co-host Michael Bradt. In a wide-raging discussion (rambling, mostly) we discuss everything from the current Cubs to media members we used to harass, to old episodes, to Tony Horton workouts, to fun shows to rewatch, to...well, you'll just have to listen to the whole thing. Five hundred of anything is a lot to try to remember.