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The Sports Report – July 2019

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with Packer Dave and Steve Leventhal

Dave and Steve are joined by Jeff Rich to discuss the start of training camps for the 2019 season NFL. We talk Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, and Arizona Cardinals, and more. Also covered are updates on the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, and Milwaukee Brewers.

Featuring audio from Packer GM Brian Gutekunst, coach Matt LaFleur, along with Chicago Bears players Khalil Mack, Tarik Cohen, and Mitch Trubisky. Don’t miss cameos from Chris Berman and Bob Uecker.

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The Sports Report – June 2019

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with Packer Dave, Steve Leventhal, and John Poulter

The guys are back to discuss the Toronto Raptors’ first ever NBA Championship, the St. Louis Blues and their seven-game Stanley Cup win over Boston, as well as talk of the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers offseason football. John also gives his thoughts on the Major League Baseball season. Lastly, Jeff Rich joins us to talk Cleveland Browns football and the upcoming NBA Draft. We also discuss the trade between the Lakers and Pelicans that sent Anthony Davis to Los Angeles for the fourth overall pick and three players.

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The Sports Report – March 2019

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with Packer Dave and Steve Leventhal

Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon

Joining us this month are Dionne Miller of ABC7 Chicago, just back from Arizona, to talk Spring Training and a some Bears football. Jeff Rich chimes in on NBA hoops, and Adam Lucas, UNC beat writer from GoHeels.com previews the Duke-Carolina game and the ACC Tournament for us.

Don’t miss cameos from Pat Hughes and Bill Raftery.

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The Sports Report – February 2019

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with Packer Dave, Steve Leventhal, and John Poulter

Join us for a Super Bowl LIII (aren’t these Roman numerals getting lame by now?) preview, plus final thoughts on the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers’ seasons. Steve highlights the top teams in college basketball to watch out for. Dave sings the praises of the Milwaukee Bucks. John gives us a mid-season update on the NHL, and we try to explain to Dave the unique nature of the FA Cup soccer tournament in England. Lastly, Steve talks with Dwight Payne, a cameraman from ABC-7 in Chicago, who’s been capturing great sports video for the past three decades.

Hear interviews from Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski, Wade Phillips, and Jared Goff. Don’t miss a cameo from Bill Raftery of CBS Sports.

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The Sports Report – 1/10/19

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with Packer Dave, Steve Leventhal, and John Poulter

On the Sports Report this week, Dave and Steve discuss the hiring of a new Green Bay Packers coach, and the surprising end of the Chicago Bears season. Plus, we preview the NFC and AFC Divisional games this weekend. In the second segment, John joins us to talk NHL hockey and English Premier League soccer.

Hear interviews from Matt LaFleur, new coach of the Green Bay Packers, Kyle Long, Prince Amukamara, and Alan Robinson II of the Chicago Bears, plus Pat Mahomes, Drew Brees, Sean McVay, and Bill Belichick. Don’t miss a cameo from Wayne Larivee, Packers radio announcer.

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The Sports Report – Christmas 2018 Edition

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with Packer Dave and Steve Leventhal

Here’s a little bonus Sports Report for you. Dave laments the end of the season for Packer fans, while discussing the playoff scenarios in the NFC and AFC. Steve reports from Halas Hall on the latest Chicago Bears news as the team begins to prepare for the final game of the season, and their first taste of post season in eight years. This includes audio from Bears head coach Matt Nagy.

In addition, we break out an oldie, but goldie, former show producer Ira Tating’s twisted version of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’. Lastly, Steve interviews Chicago Cubs play by play announcer about his newest project, Baseball Voices, recorded in the SRN studios. Happy Christmas, and Merry New Year to all!


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Monday Mulling: 2018 Bears clinch NFC North with win over Packers

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The 2018 Chicago Bears exorcized their demons with a win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, giving them their first win over the Packers in five games and, more importantly, their first division win since 2010.

Bounce-back game from Trubisky

Bears QB Mitch Trubisky
photo by SRN Broadcasting

Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky had arguably the worst game of his career against the Rams a week ago. A week of criticism ensued, further adding to the mounting pressure on Trubisky.

He responded with a big day when it was needed most, a day in which he was 20-for-28 with 235 yards and two touchdowns, posting a passer rating of 120.4. He tacked on an additional 16 yards on the ground. Trubisky played with a confidence that simply wasn’t there against the Rams. The game never became too fast for him, and that was shown by him not breaking down in mechanics or decision-making. 

“I know what I can say about my teammates is that they always have my back no matter what,” Trubisky said. “I think they see how hard I work and how much I care about this thing and how I’m hard on myself and I always continually want to do better. 

Perhaps more noticeable than his confidence was Trubisky’s performance was his poise. Green Bay’s pass-rush got home on multiple occasions, but Trubisky used his feet to create space for himself and reset his body to deliver a throw. If he was forced to throw off-balance, he did so without putting the ball in harm’s way. That mobility became useful on multiple occasions when he was him to extend a play with his feet to make a timely throw, or just take off for positive yards.

“Yesterday, Mitch made some great plays with his legs in the pocket, where it broke down, and then made the pass,” Nagy said on Monday. “Or made a scramble on a third-and-long there in the fourth quarter.”

It may not be represented by jaw-dropping deep throws, but Mitch Trubisky played a very good game Sunday. It was particularly encouraging to see him bounce back from his struggles against the Rams, and he did so in one of the biggest games of his career. It is a performance he can build off of, and the arrow is back to trending up for Trubisky.

Rushing Rodgers

Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy: SRN Broadcasting

Aaron Rodgers has made a habit of tormenting the Bears for a while now. And at times on Sunday, the nightmares or Rodgers-magic crept back into the minds of Bears fans. Alas, the Bears’ defense kept the foot on the gas all game, and Rodgers was unable to do what he does so often.

“They all battled. Really proud of them,” Rodgers said of his offensive line. “Good defense. Really good front. Crowd was loud. They had a nice plan for us.”

Aaron Rodgers is particularly dangerous when forced to improvise. His instincts and sometimes freaky chemistry with his receivers means coverage integrity is a must. The Bears’ secondary knew this and, instead of losing their focus with eyes on Rodgers, stuck with their receivers through the whole play.

Save for a couple quick throws and screens, the Bears prevented Rodgers from setting into any sort of rhythm and held him to a completion percentage of less than 60%. Rodgers was under duress all day, falling victim to a Bears pass rush that totaled five sacks. 

Khalil Mack was his typical, dominant self, sacking Rodgers two and a half times, while his counterpart, Leonard Floyd, had two of his own. Roquan Smith flew all over the field to lead the team in tackles with 10, plus, he tipped the pass that Eddie Jackson intercepted. It just so happened to be Rodgers’s first pick in over 400 pass attempts.

“Another lesson,” Nagy said of the timely interception. “Sometimes it’s a fortuitous bounce that you get. Sometimes it’s just you didn’t make a play. I talked to our guys last night in regards to those situations. We talked about them and how when you get an opportunity in this game, you got to make it and you cannot look back and have any regrets at all.

Lessons learned

Although it was the first week of the year, the Bears’ second-half collapse was still fresh on everyone’s minds. Rodgers tied the game early in the second half and the, “Here we go again” feeling began to sink in.

“I was even holding my breath on the onside kick just because I’ve seen it so much,” cornerback Prince Amukamara said. “Even on the Hail Mary before the half, you’ve just seen it so many times. [Aaron Rodgers] is so accurate and precise, when he throws the ball he is going to give the receiver a chance. We’re just glad that we finished. I think the pressure that Vic [Fangio] was sending in different looks made a difference in the game.”

These Bears are different than the ones from Week one, however, and they responded swiftly, scoring two possessions later. The defense stuck to what worked instead of reverting to soft coverage like they did before. The offense didn’t become a shell and run conservative play-calls; instead, they let Trubisky do what works best for him: Easy throws that move the chains, misdirection and run-pass-options.

The Bears are at a place they haven’t been since 2010. A place people hoped they would be in a couple years. Their defense is good enough to win the Super Bowl, and if Trubisky plays sound, mistake-free football like yesterday, there is no reason to think they can’t play in Atlanta this February.

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2018 Bears vs Packers preview

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The 2018 Chicago Bears face the Green Bay Packers on Sunday for the second time this year, but this time, a lot more than pride is on the line. A Bears a win clinches the NFC North and, combined with a Vikings win, would eliminate the Packers from postseason contention.

A chance for the run game

The Packers enter Sunday with the 29th ranked run defense by FootballOutsiders, allowing 1,641 rushing yards (24th) and 12 touchdowns (21st). The Bears’ run game has struggled at many points this season, but one of its best days came the first time these teams squared off, a game in which Jordan Howard averaged 5.47 yards per carry, his highest mark of the season. The Packers are without Mike Daniels, Mohammed Wilkerson and Nick Perry, and Mike Daniels is questionable for Sunday. Jordan Howard will have his chances to get some big yards on inside runs against a depleted Packers front.

Howard got going against Los Angeles, collecting his first hundred-yard game of the season, and looking like the effective runner he usually is. “It was really good,” quarterback Mitch Trubisky said. “Sometimes that’s how it goes. We have a mindset that we want to establish the run and the other team made a decision that they were going to take away our pass and kind of zone us out and that opened up the run game.”

Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy: SRN Broadcasting

In week One, Tarik Cohen was not used as heavily as he has been of late. He had five carries for 25 yards and three receptions for 16 yards. He has had at least 10 touches in his last five games, however, and the Bears are 4-1 in those games.

The Bears have a third element to their run game, and that is in their quarterback Mitch Trubisky, who is fifth in the league with 386 QB rushing yards. Trubisky had 32 yards on seven rush attempts and a fumble in Week One and has only grown as a runner since. Trubisky and Josh Allen are the only true run-threat quarterbacks the Packers have faced this year, so it is hard to have a feel for their ability to stop a mobile quarterback. Regardless, his legs will be a threat against the Packers, as they will against any team.

“It would be really big for us to (establish the run game,)” coach Matt Nagy said. “Any quarterback you talk to will tell you that, to have that run game going, man, it makes things a lot easier. It opens up the play-actions. It opens up the shots downfield.”

The Bears have trended towards a pass-first offense, currently with a pass-rush ration of 429 to 374 attempts. Some of this is by design and the nature of today’s NFL, but much of it has simply been in response to an inability to establish a run game. They currently rank 20thin the league in yards per rush attempt, and that ranking includes Mitch Trubisky’s scrambles. Howard is coming off his first 100-yard game of the season, and Sunday will give the Bears an opportunity to continue their success in the run game.

Stopping Aaron Rodgers

The Bears have an advantage over the Packers in nearly every aspect of the game. But, like every other NFL team, the Packers have an edge at quarterback with Aaron Rodgers. So long as Rodgers is in the game, the Packers have a chance.

Chicago Bears QB Mitch Trubisky: SRN Broadcasting

“He’s a guy that’s seen a lot of different defenses, he’s been in that offense for a long time, so the game’s slow to him,” Nagy said of Rodgers. “And then he’s got that extreme talent. He has some of the best arm talent that this game has ever had.”

We saw the sheer dominance Rodgers is known for Week One. It seemed the Bears were to start 2018 on the best foot possible, a convincing victory over their rival Packers at Lambeau. Rodgers trotted out at halftime on his injured knee and ripped the Bears’ hearts right out of their chests, mounting a 20-point comeback victory.

“We came out strong in the first half on offense and then second half we didn’t come out as aggressive and didn’t finish,” Trubisky recalled.“So, the theme for this week is just finish as a team, have a great week of practice and then we’ll get our opportunities in the game.”

Though there was a thought that such a comeback was going to be emblematic of the teams’ seasons, wherein the Packers ride a wave of Aaron Rodgers magic to the playoffs and the Bears continue their rebuilding ways, the Bears and Packers have gone in completely different directions. Packers coach Mike McCarthy lost his power struggle with Rodgers, and the team is now led by Joe Philbin. Green Bay has toiled their way to a 5-7-1 record with a mathematically impossible chance to win the division, while the Bears have gone against the grain of the modern NFL, winning nine and losing four with a dominant defense that is third in points allowed and yards per game allowed, and first in takeaway differential.

“They’re a different team,” Nagy said. “You know, they’ve had some injuries. Again, the course of the season, you run the course of the season and you kind of create the identity of who you are. And same with us too, you know. So, every game is its own game.”

It is fair to say that the Bears and Packers are different teams than they were week one, but the most important constant is Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers has dominated the Bears his entire career with a 16-4 record in 20 regular season games. Chicago has enjoyed a degree of success that’s been unheard of for most of the last decade, but they have not yet shown they can defeat the thorn that pricks them in the side twice a year. Sunday is not only a chance to clinch the division for the first time since 2010, but, given the sustainable model for success Ryan Pace has built and the state of disarray thePackers are currently in, it could be a catalyst for a swing in the oldest rivalry in the NFL.

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The Sports Report – December 2018

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with Packer Dave, Steve Leventhal, and John Poulter

Dave and Steve discuss the Chicago Bears’ stunning win over the Los Angeles Rams. What was defensive coordinator Vic Fangio’s role in the victory? We also get commentary from Dan Wiederer of the Chicago Tribune. John joins us with his insights into the NHL and English Premier League soccer.  Plus, can the Green Bay Packers keep winning and make the playoffs. All that and lots more NFL talk.  Hear interviews from Matt Nagy, Mitch Trubisky, new Packers coach Joe Philbin, Aaron Rogers, and Sean McVay.

The Packers come to Soldier Field for the second meeting of the 2018 season!

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Worst of: The Bears-Packers Showdown – 12/5/1999

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The Sports Report will be back on December 12th.  In the mean time, please enjoy a vintage show from our archives.  This episode from 1999, takes place after the Packers avenged a November loss at Lambeau with a 35-19 victory at Soldier Field.  Packer Dave is joined by Len Ackerman and the late Bob Greenberg.  The hilarity ensues, and Dave even breaks out the guitar for “Jenny Craig” a parody of “Yesterday.”  Cameos include Bob Costas.

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