The Midwest Football Podcast off season mini-series of shorts deep diving a team at a time continues with the Lions QB contract conundrum, fan poverty mindset, and what two moves will kick the Lions Super Bowl title run into overdrive!

Season 2 kicks off for the Midwest football season with a series of shorts focused on one team at a time. This episode focuses on the unique QB situation for the Chicago Bears... especially unique because it's the redo of last off-season. Should the Bears ride with Fields again and trade 1.01 or go with a rookie and trade 1.01... thoughts on that in this deep dive:

1. Bears Cut Two Longest Standing Veterans: 1m25s
2. Bears hold the league hostage with 1.01 and Justin Fields: 3m45s

01: Intro: 00m 00s

02: Coaching News: 03m 05s

03: AFC Championship Game Review: 12m 17s

04: NFC Championship Game Breakdown: 18m 45s

05: Detroit Lions Postmortem: 30m 49s

06: Super Bowl Thoughts: 39m 33s

07: Future of the Midwest Football Podcast...: 47m 11s

0:00:00 - Intro & Coaching Job Power Rankings

0:22:02 - Texans v. Browns Reactions

0:30:17 - Bills v. Steelers Reactions

0:37:59 - Packers v. Cowboys Reactions

0:46:03 - Lions v. Rams Reactions

0:53:12 - Picks, Divisional Game Previews, & Outro

Total running time - 1:10:39

1 News

Black Monday: 1m53s

Head Coaching vacancies opened or possibly opening

2 Week 18 reactions

• Steelers at Ravens: 11m 09s
• Texans at Colts: 16m 28s
• Browns at Bengals: 22m 07s
• Vikings at Lions: 29m 35s
• Bears at Packers: 47m 35s

3 Week 19 / Wild Card Playoff picks 

• Browns at Texans: 1h 05m 38s
• Steelers at Bills: 1h 10m 06s
• Packers at Cowboys: 1h 15m 32s
• Rams at Lions: 1h 18m 52s

0:00:00 - Intro & Week 18 Clinching / Resting Scenarios

0:14:19 - Browns v. Jets Reactions

0:18:59 - Cowboys v. Lions Reactions

0:30:05 - Bears v. Falcons Reactions

0:36:35 - Colts v. Raiders Reactions

0:40:19 - Steelers v. Seahawks Reactions

0:48:58 - Chiefs v. Bengals Reactions

0:54:13 - Packers v. Vikings Reactions

1:08:49 - Picks, One More Thing, & Outro

Total running time - 1:25:27

0:00:00 - Intro and Lions / Browns Props

0:04:26 - No Soup For Russ

0:08:03 - The Circus Is In KC

0:16:33 - Purdy for MVP Nonsense

0:22:55 - Steelers v. Bengals Reactions

0:29:27 - Falcons v. Colts Reactions

0:33:53 - Lions v. Vikings Reactions

0:40:52 - Packers v. Panthers Reactions

0:47:20 - Browns v. Texans Reactions

0:55:27 - Bears v. Cardinals Reactions

1:06:38 - Picks, One More Thing, and Thanks

Total running time - 1:23:42

0:00:00 - Intro and Chargers Housecleaning

0:09:59 - Bengals v. Vikings Reaction

0:16:18 - Colts v. Steelers Reaction

0:25:07 - Lions v. Broncos Reaction

0:29:17 - Browns v. Bears Reaction

0:37:55 - Bucs v. Packers Reaction

0:40:49 - Picks, One More Thing, & Outro

Total running time - 0:53:42