Mark Potash tells us what he thinks is sustainable about the Bears | Take The North
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bears fans this is take the north what's the reason duck it's here with your host of these guys dan wieterer the whole key to sustaining success in this league is to have a quarterback play that is top tier and can consistently push you down those roads and mark grody we're allowed to at this point bears fans are allowed to right now dream big and predict what you want out of the season we're going to take the north and never give it back Hello again, everybody, and welcome into the Take the North podcast, along with Mark Potash, who is filling in for our guy, Dan Wiederer. Potsy, of course, the former Sun-Timesman, and he still writes and creates for his own domain, markpotash.net. Potsy, it is a blast to have you back on the podcast here on Take the North.
How are you doing, man? I'm doing great, Mark. Thanks. Great to be on the show. Absolutely. We love having you. Dan, as we record this, interestingly enough, is down the hall from me where he is performing a radio show. He is currently part of the Spiegel and Holmes show, filling in for Lawrence Holmes. So he's sorry he couldn't be here. But, Mark, he did tell me to tell you hello. Well, I appreciate that. I'm always willing to take his leftovers. That's the state of my life right now, Mark. I'm here for it. It is funny to me that in the shop in which I work, where I have my full-time job right here at The Score, where we are conducting this podcast, the person who doesn't work full-time in this building has left his responsibilities of the podcast behind to be doing a part-time job that he is not usually a part of.
I don't get it. It doesn't actually make sense to me now that I'm putting it together, Mark. Well, Dan's got a lot of irons on the fire. Everything's going good for him. He's got too many jobs. I don't have enough. But we've got to do something about that. Yeah, help a Patsy out for crying out loud. I mean, I don't like seeing the word former behind the Sun-Timesman and all the value that you have provided. Yeah, it became tougher and tougher to watch the season. It was interesting. From the outside looking in, I stayed with it and tried to stay connected, but it became tougher and tougher to watch the season and not be there every day. That was a very much more difficult kind of transition than I thought, and I really missed it.
So that's why I'm always glad to talk Bears. It makes me feel a part of it again. Well, that's interesting, too, and that's probably a good place to pick up the Bears talk because that's the season in a nutshell. Like, it was more than ever, it was a season in which – You just have to let it be fluid. You just have to sort of let it play out. And that's difficult. It was difficult for me. It can be difficult for all of us to not make grand proclamations about a season. But to your point about how it got better and better and better, it felt like early in the season. And you and I probably at some point in time talked about it, whether on air or off the air. There was something about it that didn't feel sustainable earlier in the season.
What makes Mark Potash confident about the Bears' future?
But by the end of the year...
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–4:20
2
What makes Mark Potash confident about the Bears' future?
4:20–16:58
3
How did the Bears' season progress according to Potash?
16:58–19:11
4
What are the sustainable elements of the Bears' success?
19:11–20:20
5
What does Potash think about the Bears' current quarterback situation?
20:20–44:55
6
How does the Bears' defense need to improve for next season?
44:55–45:00
7
What are the challenges facing the Bears' defense moving forward?
45:00–56:49
Speakers
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