Windy City Gridiron: for Chicago Bears fans

This episode of Making Monsters takes a closer look at the Bears' first contract offensive linemen and their battles during Training Camp. Taylor Doll and Dylan Ryan answer some questions about what the line may look like, and also address the questions surrounding Teven Jenkins. Southern Utah offensive line coach Aaron Fernandez joins them to talk about Braxton Jones, and Scott Wright, the Oklaho...

Wednesday kicks off the Hall of Fame festivities in Canton, Ohio and Terence Young will be there as an honored guest. The Bears fan sat down with me recently to talk about his life as a Bears fan and all about the Hall of Fans experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lester Wiltfong grabs Shawn Sierra of SportsZone Chicago to talk about what he saw at Chicago Bears camp today. The pads were on and the players were hitting! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JB & Lester are back with a new Bear & Balanced to discuss everything they saw on the field at Halas Hall today, including the Trench Tribute, the Justin Fields Report, offensive and defensive players of the day, plus they share the interesting story on their run in with Chicago Bears security. 🤣 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Lester spent all Friday morning at Halas Hall taking in Chicago Bears training camp, and here are all their thoughts on what they saw. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chicago Bears are back in action as they've taken the field for the beginning of Training Camp! And while of course we'd love for Camp to give us "all the answers" about the upcoming season, what questions do we need answers to? I grab Khari Thompson of the Patriots Beat to discuss on this episode of Bear With Me! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our latest T Formation Conversation Lester brings on JB, his Bear & Balanced co-host, who was at training camp today watching the Chicago Bears practice. Lester & JB break down a lot of what he saw today at Halas Hall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out the debut episode of Making Monsters! A brand new show on the WCG Podcast Channel from Taylor Doll and Dylan Ryan which will focus on the Chicago Bears that are early in their careers. Check out who Taylor and Dylan spotlight this week as the Bears get training camp started! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who says RBs don't matter? They certainly do in fantasy football. The ever-changing RB landscape is the most important part of prepping for your draft and Erik Smith of the QB List is here to tackle the top 30 guys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we draw closer to the 2022 season, JB brings in familiar voices to talk about how to talk about the 2022 Chicago Bears, given everything we've learned on the Bears Hopium Den. Tune in to hear EJ Snyder, Patti Curl, and Lester A Wiltfong Jr. discuss why they're Bears fans and how they plan to talk about this team in transition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill Zimmerman and Robert Schmitz are back for part 2 of the training camp preview. They've already broken down the offense, and now they go position group by position group on the defense. They look at the improved secondary, the linebacker group that lives and dies with Roquan Smith and try to answer the questions about the guys up front and if they are strong enough to keep this defense humming...

Jeff and Lester are joined this week by the newest member of the WCG Podcasting family, Taylor Doll, to talk about her soon to debut show, Making Monsters, but also to discuss some of the key stories surrounding the Chicago Bears as they report to training camp this week. They hit on an abridged version of their usual categories, so tune in for the Trench Tribute, the Fields Report, and The 3 Bear...

Every draft you must ask yourself a question - will I use a premium pick on the tight end position or wait until late to take a chance at a flier? JB and Erik Smith of the QB List are here to help you think through the tight end position in your upcoming fantasy drafts so that you can dominate your league. From Travis Kelce and Mark Andrews to Evan Engram and David Njoku, the guys will rank the bo...

Will Justin Fields be the guy? It's the most important question for the Chicago Bears for 2022 and beyond. It's hard to quantify just how much that question means to this franchise, this city, this fan base. Host Jeff Berckes welcomes back the Hopium Den participants one more time for a big roundtable-style discussion on the biggest Bears question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

Football season is in the air? Can you smell it? Training camp is less than two weeks away. We know now, baring a late August signing, what the Bears team is going to look like in 2022. Robert Schmitz and Bill Zimmerman take a detailed look at the offense going position group by position group. How good can these groups be? How bad can they be? They take a best case/worst case look at each group a...

Do you prefer to walk into your fantasy football draft without a plan and take players that you think you might remember were kind of good a few years ago or do you want to dominate your league and impress your friends? Do you want to put in the hundreds of hours of research required to build a board or would you like to just listen to an expert build theirs? That's what I thought! Jeff welcomes t...

Through the magic of podcast editing, JB is joined by all 12 participants from Episodes 1-5 of the Bears Hopium Den to talk about one question - "what do you think of new GM Ryan Poles and HC Matt Eberflus?" A fun conversation with the Hopium Den veterans that offers plenty of nuance to the new crew in Halas Hall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have our moments of superfandom, but these two live it every day. On this week's episode, JB is joined by Greg Braggs Jr. and Kris Armstrong to chat about all things Bears football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we move along in the Bears Hopium Den series, we take a look at the social media site Twitter and how Bears fans use and interact in the "Bears Twitter" community. JB is joined by Quinten (@ButkusStats) and Brenda (@BrendaJWebber) to talk about Bears Twitter along with all the things that makes them tick as Bears fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a big world out there and as it turns out, there are Bears fans everywhere! Jeff is joined by Heidi from Mexico, Ciaran from Ireland, and Andrew from Australia to talk about the Bears and how they became fans of the Navy & Orange. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff and Lester recap some of the storylines that have been surrounding the Chicago Bears during their offseason workout program (OTAs and minicamps) that so many Bears; fans have been talking about, and they did so with their usual categories of... Trench Tribute Sweet Tweets Caught up in a numbers game The 3 Bears: Hot, cold, just right! The Fields Report Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Episode 2 from the Bears Hopium Den is with Taylor Doll and Stacey The Bat Flip Expert to help give the perspective of female Bears fans in the sports media realm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this new limited series, host Jeff Berckes interviews different groups of Chicago Bears fans to take the temperature of the fanbase and understand what makes them tick. Episode 1 features three fans in the Windy City Gridiron sphere of influence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the latest Bear & Balanced podcast JB & Lester try to frame where former Chicago Bears' Akiem Hicks, Khalil Mack, and Allen Robinson all land in the history of the franchise, and they use the Windy City Gridiron Top 100 Bears Player list they helped compile for the 100th anniversary of the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Lester's latest T Formation Conversation he's joined by a longtime personal friend Dave Scarbro, who has coached for over 20 years in the high school and youth levels, to gain some insight on quarterback mechanics, the Chicago Bears' new offensive scheme, and a whole bunch more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices