Bear & Balanced: Bears vs Dolphins Preseason Recap

Chicago Bears preseason games are always a strange watch. It’s our favorite team, so we naturally tune in. It’s just practice, so we don’t really care who wins or loses. That is, until it’s crunch time and we’d rather see the good guys come out on top. But after the game, regardless of the outcome, we just hope they made it through unscathed. The Bears were a little banged up, but nothing appears serious, so even though the scoreboard said the game was a tie, I’ll take it as a week one win for the franchise.

There were other individual winners on the field yesterday, and while roster battles are rarely won or lost in preseason, that’s not to say some Bears didn’t help their cause.

Check out Jeff Berckes and Taylor Doll [who is filling in for Lester this week] on a new Bear & Balanced here, or come hang out with us live on 2nd City Gridiron at 6:00 p.m. (CT).

Here’s our usual bullet point outline of Bear & Balanced.

• Intro: We’ll both share some general thoughts about the game.
• Trench Tribute: This is our weekly pick for lineman of the game.
• Caught up in a numbers game: This segment features one number or statistic from the game that we found interesting.
• Sweet Tweets: We’re both active on social media — so be sure you’re all following us at @gridironborn & @wiltfongjr — and we highlight one Twitter interaction/Tweet each week.
• The Caleb Corner: We normally talk about quarterback Caleb Williams before we take our commercial break, but with no Caleb this week, we’ll probably take this in a different direction.
• The 3 Bears: You all know the story of the Three Bears, don’t you? In this porridge-themed portion of the show, we give our picks for the Bear that was hot, the Bear that was cold, and the Bear that was just right in the game against the Dolphins.

After we wrap up the podcast portion of the show, we’ll stick around to answer any questions you guys may have from the YouTube comment section in some video-exclusive content.

You can also listen to the podcast version here (ASAP) or download it wherever you get your pods:

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