Pro Football Weekly: Chicago

A potential No. 1 wideout could finally be on the horizon for Mitch Trubisky and the Bears, and Arthur Arkush, Bob LeGere and Hub Arkush are weighing the options: Sammy Watkins vs. Allen Robinson vs. Jarvis Landry. Plus, do people really think Ryan Pace mishandled transition CB Kyle Fuller? And what about Muhammad Wilkerson?Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

This week’s Pro Football Weekly - Chicago Podcast comes to you from the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. PFW Editor Hub Arkush and Chicago Bears beat reporter Bob LeGere will fill you in on their visits with Bears General Manager, Ryan Pace and new Head Coach Matt Nagy. Hub and Bob will also talk about how the Bears might address free agency which starts in 10 days, the Bears greatest areas of need in both free agency and the Draft and who the Bears might be targeting in free agency and who the best players available in the Draft might be when the Bears No. 8 pick rolls around assuming they don’t trade it.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

No NFL club was busier on Tuesday than the Bears, who released defensive captain Jerrell Freeman and declined the option on fellow captain and former Pro Bowler Josh Sitton. Bob LeGere and Arthur Arkush explain what the moves mean and preview the team's vital impending decision on Kyle Fuller as the franchise-tag window officially opens.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Longtime Bears beat writer Bob LeGere returns to Pro Football Weekly officially and joins Hub Arkush to talk about the latest news with the Chicago Bears early offseason. Former NFL head coach Brad Childress, Matt Nagy's partner in Kansas City has been hired as an offensive consultant to the Bears. Plus the guys talk about the defensive coaching staff, and much more on this week's Pro Football Weekly Chicago Podcast. Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Pro Football Weekly Personnel Expert Greg Gabriel and long time Chicago Bears Beat Writer Bob LeGere, join Hub Arkush to chat the latest in the Bears Coaching Staff build and the continued look ahead in the off-season. The guys also discuss Super Bowl 52, could the Bears be playoff contenders in 2018, plus, the news about the XFL! Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Arthur and Hub react to the "love fest" at Halas Hall on Thursday, including the key role Mitch Trubisky's presence played in Matt Nagy luring in Mark Helfrich and luring back Vic Fangio. The guys then revisit the '17 Rams and '18 Bears comparisons with Nagy's staff coming together and share their takes on which players and positions Bears fans should begin to monitor with the Senior Bowl kicking off next week.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

On the 100th episode of our show, Arthur and Hub, of course, talk new coach Matt Nagy and the already impressive staff he's beginning to assemble. We explain why the Nagy-Pace and Nagy-Trubisky pairings are so exciting, and dive into the assistant hires already known and address the elephant in the room and whether it'll be the next home-run hire. Last but most certainly not least, the guys become starry-eyed when a special guest makes an unexpected appearance on episode No. 100 — legendary Chicago sports icon Wayne Messmer, who adds his take on the exciting new chapter in Bears history. Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

It’ll be a “collaborative” effort between Ryan Pace, Ted Phillips and George McCaskey to hire John Fox’s replacement, and we think that’s worrisome - more so than the two-year extension Pace received. But the early reports of coaches being considered to replace Fox includes a nice mix of intriguing options. We’re breaking down all of them and how confident Bears fans should be as the process starts to unfold.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

We've likely reached the end of the John Fox tenure, and the guys are explaining what a new beginning for the Bears should look like. Is Ryan Pace still the guy to lead the rebuild? If so, who might his next guy be? And how attractive is the Bears' potential opening? We're breaking down "Black Monday" at Halas Hall from every angle.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

The guys discuss what may turn into be a Christmas Miracle if the Chicago Bears can beat the Cleveland Browns after being favored in a game. In John Fox’s three years as head coach, the Bears are 0-7 straight up when favorite, per Odds Shark. Is this a must win for the Bears? Will they be the team that gives up the Cleveland Browns first win of the season? Its a battle of the ugly on the lakefront this week, and we talk about it all right here on the PFW Chicago Podcast, sponged by Loot Crate. Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Their most important young cornerstone players led the Bears in their biggest win of 2017. It was only victory No. 4, but it's something. Arthur and Hub are breaking down the growth of Trubisky, Jackson, Shaheen and more, and continuing to preview what will be an eventful and critical offseason for the franchise.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Forget previewing the Bengals and looking back at Niners. In a lost season, the guys take their first look at the Bears' most pressing offseason needs, working under assumption there's a new coaching staff and same GM. We also identify the biggest priority re-signings and discuss which pieces still can develop into building blocks.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

The guys expound on their reporting this week regarding Vic Fangio not being on Ryan Pace's short list of potential John Fox replacements. Then attention turns to Jimmy Garoppolo, Mitch Trubisky and two different paths to finding a franchise QB that will be interlinked for years to come.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Arthur and Hub kick off the Thanksgiving week podcast by recapping the Bears' losing "siesta" vs. Lions, before discussing the futures of John Fox and Ryan Pace. Then it's onto Philadelphia, where the Eagles have provided Pace with a blueprint for Mitch Trubisky's development.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

The sky might not be falling after the Bears loss' to Packers but confidence in Chicago's coaching staff plummets. Arthur and Hub react to the unsightly defeat and the Bears' admission that their opponents are dictating Chicago's play-calling decisions. Plus, previewing and picking Lions-Bears.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

The Chicago Bears are coming off their bye-week and face a much different Green Bay Packers team they saw a few weeks back. Do the Bears have what it takes to push the Pack to a 4-game loosing streak? The guys podcast LIVE from Rowdy’s in Yorkville, IL to chat Bears and more NFL talk!Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Arthur and Hub take stock of the Bears at their bye and dive into the uncertain futures of the coaching staff — particularly Vic Fangio — who might be the team's most valuable free agent after the season. The guys also riff on the state of NFL officiating/replay and whether 8-8, if not contending for the division, is in play after encouraging first half.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Is new Bears WR Dontrelle Inman the key to unlocking Mitch Trubisky and the Bears' passing game? Arthur and Hub answer that question and discuss the Pro Bowl-caliber play of Akiem Hicks and Kyle Fuller, whether Chicago should work to extend Fuller's contract now and how an upset in New Orleans likely necessitates Trubisky and the offense doing much more than Chicago has asked of them during its two-game ascent.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Arthur Arkush and Hub Arkush are breaking down the Bears' first road victory since 2015 and explaining how they can make it two in a row this week returning to Soldier Field vs. Carolina. Hub highlights the exceptional play of Kyle Fuller and Akiem Hicks on defense, the guys explain the flashes from Mitch Trubisky in his first win that won't show up in the box score and make their picks for Sunday.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.

Arthur and Hub discuss the positives and negatives from Mitchell Trubisky's NFL debut and explain what must change to have more success in Baltimore. They take a closer look at Leonard Floyd's role, and ask whether the need at pass rush may be nearly as great as the dire one at wideout next offseason. The guys also break down Kyle Fuller, Tre McBride and more in the latest PFW Chicago podcast.Like what you hear?  Subscribe to us here in iTunes. Leave a review, it helps others discover the show.Our podcast is sponsored by Lootcrate. Get great gamer/geek gear and more, and save $3 on your first box by using our promo code 'shaw' at www.lootcrate.com/shaw.