Take The North: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Longtime listener, Grote and Dan are great together. Please no more Studz on air. More interviews, and no more little broken up segments that make me think there’s new episodes! Would be 5 stars otherwise.

I was open to giving this show a chance and enjoyed the first episodes I listened to. I’m unsubscribing after the first week because of the onslaught of episode clips posted to the feed. Incredibly annoying. Zero benefit to the listeners. Just ruins my podcast feed. There’s a reason zero other podcasts do this.

Mark and Dan provide a good chemistry and breakdown the game well each week. Good all around Bears pod.

I do think that Dan is judging too early on Trapillo just taking either the Left or Right Tackle position with nothing standing in his way. He has looked very good in helmet, t-shirt and shorts. But he won’t beat out Darnell Wright (a 1st round pick, who has played well) on the right side. And Braxton Jones who is just capable, has 3 seasons of experience against NFL rushers. Until we see Trapillo in action with the pads we shouldn’t make that assumption. Mark seems emotionally scarred by the Green Bay Packers. Being an old man I remember the Bears beating the Packers like a drum in the 80’ and most of the 90’s. That is history I know, but so is Favre and Rodger’s playing QB. Jordan Love is 3-1 against the Bears (good but hardly overwhelming) and 1-1 against Caleb Williams. Perhaps Grote should take Dave the Cat with him to Packers games as a comfort pet.