Pointless Exercise - A Desipio 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 Clearinghouse check to leave and if so, Andy thinks he knows who they'll replace him with. Let's just say the interns should go out and buy ties. They...

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 Brown, Jarvis Redwine, Joe Senser, Fuad Reveiz, Amp Lee and Steve Dils. The '94 playoff win at the Metrodome was the absolute peak of the Wanny era, a...

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 Texans future or the Bears, who Andy thinks should be the Bears QB next year and who probably will be. They also talk about the cinematic classic, Porky's, and...

The Bears, a charter franchise of the NFL have played the Texans four times in the 19 year history fo the Texans and dumped them all. The Texans have prevented the Bears from making the playoffs, contributed to Paul Edinger's only career pass, and ruined a Bears season by scrambling Jay Cutler's brain. The guys also discuss why Bears should try an interim coach, how Ted Phillips got his job, Mugs...

Another week another undignified Bears loss and Andy and Mike P. are begrudgingly ready to talk about it. They break down the epic Bears' collapse, try to figure out what anybody was thinking and where defense has gone. They talk about Ted Phillips' rumored retirement, why Ryan Pace can't pick the next QB and the advantages of firing everybody in-season. Andy gives a detailed (half-assed) scouting...

It's time to remember even more crap about the Lions as they come to town to take on the Bears Sunday. The Lions had the courtesy to fire their idiot head coach named Matt, unlike the Bears. Andy and Mike D. look back the long, illustrious history of Lions coaches, the youngest players in Hall of Fame history (and how that reflects pretty poorly on Detroit.) They also delve into Matt Millen's firs...

The Bears made fools of themselves, again, on national TV at Lambeau Field on Sunday night and Andy and Mike P. are on hand to wallow in the misery the Bears are shedding as the NFL's latest superspreader of suck. The guys tell you what the Bears need to do, and why the McCaskey family is too dumb to do any of it. Mitch Trubisky came back to remind us why he was on the bench in the first place. Ma...

With the Bears off fighting their Week 11 bye to a draw, the Pointless Exercise podcast takes advantage of having an actual professional actor, Mike Pusateri, on it to go into a deep dive into one of Mike and Andy's favorite movies, Phillip Kaufman's 1983 classic  The Right Stuff. Why should you listen to a two hour podcast about a three and a half hour movie? Because it's a great movie, and...

The pod starts with a new sponsor and ends with extensive talk about Theo Epstein leaving the Cubs, but in between Andy and Mike P. do their contractual duty and talk about another Bears loss. How the offensive coordinator search saved the season, the best thing about the game was how quickly it was played, the saddest kind of quarterback controversy, a dark turn in our Noah Jackson discussion, ho...

It's time to Remember This Crap, and Mike D. and Andy look back on the glorious Bears-Vikings rivalry. It's mostly marked by Bud Grant pissing and moaning about the early '80s Bears not respecting the national anthem, field goals from the one yard line (that used to be a thing), Wanny winning a road playoff game, the glorious chokes of Gary Anderson and Brett Fah-vuh-ruh, and the worst Monday Nigh...

Andy and Mike P. try to figure out what landscape company Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy can hold their farewell press conference at as they harken back to the last time Nagy's offense was any damned good (it's a long trip.) They go all Steve Kornacki over the Bears chances to either make the playoffs or finish last, wonder if the backup fat guys the Bears had to use Sunday are really worse than the regu...

We avoided all attempts at any Remember The Titans jokes, and instead started with a few minutes of talk about Mike D. nearly needing to crack some heads during his election judge stint on Tuesday. But then it was time to remember the Houston Oilers, a coach with a perfect record (for a while), Jeff Fisher's incredible ability to go 7-9 or 8-8, the Liberty Bowl, Bud Adams' toupee, NFL fight songs,...

Andy and Mike P. look back at another stunning Bears game. They ponder the magnificence of the long awaited Mitch Package, wonder what good a visorless Matt Nagy is, scoff at the the idiocy of thinking switching back to Trubisky would do any good, marvel at a punt returner that actually returns punts, and try to figure out how an NFL team can be completely befuddled by a malfunctioning quarterback...

It's Saints week and man do Andy and Mike D. have crap to remember. There's the 2006 NFC Championship Game, which is easily the greatest moment in Bears history since Super Bowl XX (well, that or the time they ruined the Brett Favre jersey retirement by beating the Packers in Lambeau), and there are many more. What do you remember about Leon Johnson? Yes, THAT. They also talk about the Reuschel Br...

Mike P. and Andy try to process the Bears ill-fated trip to LA. They try to do the kick return math for Cordarrelle Patterson, try to figure out what it is that Ted Ginn Jr. does and what Matt Nagy's fascination with Demetrius Harris is. How many of Nagy's 25 career wins are against winning teams? He probably would rather you don't know. Did former Bears great Brian Griese cause some QB room tensi...

A famous Eric Dickerson-Mike Singletary collision, a long-lost Bears Danish kicker, two football teams from Cleveland, John Robinson and John Madden sitting in a parked RV in Madden's driveway drinking Vodka and Ensure and much more highlight this week's installment of Remember This Crap? with Andy and Mike D. You're going to learn that the Fearsome Foursome was not a unique nickname and that it w...

The Bears are 5-1 and Mike P. and Andy try to focus on the positive since that's a hell of a lot better than we expected at this point. Are they the worst 5-1 team in NFL history? They have stats that prove they aren't! The guys go over some of Matt Nagy's finest moments on Sunday, talk about the dominant Bears defense, and how the Zoom meetings with all nine offensive coordinators must go. They a...

The Panthers are next up for the Bears, so Andy and Mike D. kick things off this week with great moments in that rivalry's history (there aren't many), but one of the guys got thrown off an airplane during their playoff game. Dom Capers hair, Steve Smith emasculating the 2005 Bears, Jerry Richardson's Saddam-esque statue and Eddie Berlin all get some run in this week's episode. Then, it's on to tw...

The Bears beat the Bucs (really) and Andy and Mike P. break it down. They prove they can count to three which is at least as many as Tom Brady can. They discuss the kicker clown car, Andy's terrible movie depth perception, how every team should have a coach whose only duty is to tell the head coach what the other team doesn't want you to do. Kyle Fuller's spleen removal of Ke'Shawn Vaughn, Khalil...

Mike D. and Andy are back to Remember This Crap, and this week they kick it off with the Bears next opponent, the illustrious Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Andy gets his kickers confused and calls John McKay Jim, and Mike thinks Sean McVay is related to him. But then things get good and they recall great moments in Bears-Bucs history (if there are any), Don Criqui's on-air blunder, Brett Musberger giving...

The Bears somehow managed to get their ass kicked in every way and only lose by eight points on Sunday. Andy and Mike Pusateri are concerned how the short week before Thursday night's game with Tampa will affect...the podcast. If you give Matt Nagy an excuse to not run the ball, he'll take it. They discuss how not even Ryan Nall could save the Bears, wonder if anybody on the team knows that touchb...

It's time for Andy and Mike D. to Remember This Crap. With the Colts coming to town Andy harkens back to a charming little story about destroying a lamp as a young lad on the day of the Bears last visit to Baltimore. They guys try to figure out why Walter Payton only rushed three yards in a game, and why any team would draft a punter in the top half of the first round. Mike tries to explain why hi...

Baseball's playoffs are going to be in your face Tuesday and Wednesday, and after wandering through the pandemic wilderness for many fraught months, Sam and Andy are here to let you know it's OK to be excited about it, and (gasp!) about the Cubs' chances. Will Kris Bryant's heel turn, Adbert Alzolay's new slider, and Yu just being Yu be enough to subdue the mostly anonymous Marlins? You'll have to...

Another week another ridiculous win by the Bears, and we'll gladly take it. This time, the Bears broke the glass on the Emergency Quarterback case and out came Nick Foles. Is this the end for Mitch? If the move makes the Bears more competent does it raise their ceiling at all? Andy and Mike Pusateri answer these questions and more, including why are opposing coaches giving games to the Bears, wher...

Andy and Kyle try to make sense of the Cubs disappearing offense, and especially what has to happen for them to lose the division with three games to go. There's even a rare in-podcast edit/correction from Andy because he completely butchered the tiebreaker scenario on the first try. Go figure. Basically, if the Cardinals go to Detroit on Monday it's a bad thing for the Cubs. They also try to figu...