The Bears have had quite a few job searches since George Halas hired Mike Ditka over pudding and a wet nap in 1982, and the guys look at every candidate from all of them. Some of them you won't believe they bothered to talk to, others you'll be mad that they didn't offer the job and there are stories for all of them. From Ditka to Wanny to McGin--oops--Jauron to Lovie to Trestman to Foxy to Nagy with all of the better and yes, even worse candidates, we cover them all.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

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183. Remember This Crap? Reliving Great Job Searches in Bears History - Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast

The guys break down the first Ryan Poles-Matt Eberflus press conference by playing it back and making fun of it. They find the whys, they try to follow Matt's weird, overly complicated acronyms for everything, they relive the emotional moment when Ryan first laid eyes on Matt and fell in coaching love, and mostly they make fun of the media for their inane questions. The new regime is in place and they're full of promises, but are interestingly quick to avoid talking about any players not named Justin Fields or Roquan Smith.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

182. Poles and Eberflus Live and Unplugged - Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast

The Second Arrangement's Kelly Dwyer returns to the podcast to talk about pertinent, timely things like how the Bulls can fill their power forward void, why it's weird that George McCaskey wears a Bears' letterman jacket, Easy Ed Macauley, Larry Bowa, Bill Russell trades, Fred Hoiberg's neckwear, Paul Mokeski, how many times Grayson Allen has been punched in real life, Phil Plantier, DeMar DeRozan, Stacey King nicknames, the Larry Nances, the Opti-Grab, and much, much more.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

181. Kelly Dwyer Returns - Pointless Exercise Podcast

George McCaskey drops by to join the guys on the podcast as they discuss the firings of Bears' GM Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy. George explains why hiring an 80 year old consultant who seems to be just trying to sell a book is the key to finally finding a good coach and GM. We learn that Ted Phillips isn't going to oversee football anymore because he'll be too busy in Arlington Heights pretending he's an architect, and that the GM will report to George and that George will get his football guidance from...Ted? Oh, it was all just so Bears. Join us as we chime in on George's ponderous press conference and look ahead to what candidates are out there for the Bears for both jobs. Oh, and there's a guy named Soup on the search committee.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

180. Bill, Ted, George, Tanesha and Soup's Excellent Coaching Search Adventure - Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast

Something funky's been happening to the Apple version of this Remember This Crap podcast on the Jim McMahon Game in the Metrodome in 1985. So here's the most stripped down version we can upload. Hope it works for everyone. It's a good one.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

Remember This Crap - Bears at Vikings - Week Three - 1985

With the Bears and Vikings playing another meaningless season finale on Sunday, we look back to a more important game, one of the coolest in Bears' history. It's Monday Night Football on Thursday early in the 1985 season and the illustrious crew of Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and Orenthal James Simpson are in the Metrodome for a game that Jim McMahon was too injured to start. But not too injured to finish.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

179a. Jim McMahon has had enough of this sh*t - Remember This Crap? - Pointless Exercise Podcast

The Bears dominated a really terrible Giants team and the guys discuss whether or not the McCaskeys learned any of the right lessons from it. They also wonder if the inept play of an opposing QB has ever gotten a general manager fired. (Fingers crossed.) They bask in the glow of Robert Quinn breaking a prestigious record that we only learned even existed two weeks ago. They look ahead a week and wonder what the timing will be with the firings and hirings. And they are super excited about week 18. Maybe.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

178. Learning the right lessons - Bears v. Giants - Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast

If you didn't hear it last year, or you have a less than great memory all of this stuff is new to you. There's a lot of crap to remember about two of the oldest and most similar franchises in NFL history, the New York Giants and our beloved Bears. From Tom Coughlin's beet red face to Bill Parcells pulling his pants up to his breasts and everything in between. The guys get into the long ago history of the teams and the more recent stuff, and for some reason they spend a good amount of time talking about Uwe Von Schamann, Rolf Benirschke, Fuad Reveiz, Ken Anderson, John Jefferson and much, much more.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

177. Best of the Giants - Remember This Crap - Pointless Exercise Podcast

It was a Christmas (day after) miracle! Nick Foles led the Bears to a win in snowy Seattke and the guys are here to bask in the glow of a hard fought victory and wonder why the Bears haven't fired head coach Matt Nagy yet. They discuss what the delay might mean, why it's the right thing to do, who they should hire and what a new front office structure should look like. Then, there's exciting breaking news during the podcast (with a breaking news theme, and everything!) They also look ahead to this week's game with the Giants and ponder whether the Giants should even want to win.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

176. Why can't the Bears ever do the obvious thing? - Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast

The Bears and Seahawks have played more times than you think in the relatively short (compared to the Bears) history of football in Seattke, but there have been some really memorable games. Hey, if it wasn't for them Lovie might not have ever won a playoff game! The guys look back at some of those matchups, paying particular attention to the 2006 and 2010 playoff wins, Lovie's nearly castastrophic f-up, Jay Cutler's one great playoff performance, and how could they miss the Jimmy Clausen game or the home swan songs of Walter Payton and...Johnny Knox?  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

175. The Bears favorite playoff foes, the Seahawks - Remember This Crap? - Pointless Exercise Podcast

The Bears played a spirited but incompetent game at home against the Vikings and lost. Matt Nagy kept losing his mind--or what's left of it--on the sidelines. Teven Jenkins decided somebody had to finally stand up for their quarterback. A sixth round draft pick looks like their second best cornerback and he didn't play for FOURTEEN weeks for no apparent reason. It's time to talk some more about firing Nagy and about how dumb it is that people want to convince themselves that Justin Fields isn't good. The guys discuss all of that and more. Merry Christmas one and all.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

174. We all need to be put out of our misery - Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast

With the Bears and Vikings ready to see if anybody's healthy enough to play on Monday, the guys look back at a classic matchup of the two teams from 1979. Seriously. It's a CBS production with a young Bob Costas teaming with current Bears' all-time leading receiver Johnny Morris. (Man, this franchise...) You'll hear the call of the game and then our guys making fun of Bob and Johnny, Mike Phipps, Vince Evans, Brian Baschnagel and the game, and marveling at Walter Payton and Alan Page. You'll learn more than ever wanted to know about Ahmad Rashad's wedding, too. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

173. Walter Payton destroys the Vikings...again - Remember This Crap? - Pointless Exercise Podcast

The Bears went up to Lambeau Field to humiliate themselves and us and they managed to not do it for an entire half! Heady times. Andy and Mike P. break down the fluky first half and the predictable fiasco that was the second half. They try to figure out what kind of idiot would want to take the Bears job if Ryan Pace stays, they complain about Cris Collinsworth, fear for Justin Fields' safety, marvel at just how little the coaches did to give Teven Jenkins any kind of chance to succeed and much, much, more.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

172. - More primetime indignity - Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast

You might not be old enough to remember that it used to be the Bears who handed out the repeated thumpings in Packers games, but Mike D. and Andy do, and they are taking a look back at one of the most humiliating nights in Packers' history. It was a Monday night clash in 1985 with the Bears and a dainty little 300 pound defensive tackle named after a household appliance who handed out a very thorough and very entertaining beating. Frank Gifford, OJ Simpson and Joe Namath were on the call, and here's your chance to relive it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

171. This Bears Packers thing used to be the other way around - Remember This Crap? - 1985 Monday Night Football

The Bears and Cardinals played what technically met the minimum qualifications for an NFL football game on Sunday and Andy and Mike P. are ready to break it all down, tell you what they saw on the all-22 footage and..., well, mostly they're just going to make fun of just how unwatchable that crap was. The Bears gave the game away before the first quarter was half over and you have them credit for not leaving before the game ended, unlike the fans. They also look ahead to the upcoming nationally televised unavoidable debacle with the Packers and they try to figure out just how bad it will have to be for the Bears to fire everybody right after or even during the game. They also urge Justin Fields to sit this one out for his own good, while desperately hoping he plays just to give us all something to actually watch.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

170. The beginning of the end of the beginning of the end? - Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast

The only podcast you'll ever need... New name. Same crap podcast. Join Andy from Desipio.com, Sam from Faxes From Uncle Dale, and Kyle from...Wisconsin as they regularly talk about the irregular Chicago Cubs. And, there are special interview podcasts with interesting people mixed in, too.

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