Many fans waited more than an hour for “Hard Knocks” at Chicago Bears training camp Tuesday night, and they got a lot more than just the coach and the quarterback this week.
As colleague Adam Jahns previewed in his story with HBO’s Shannon Furman, we got to know more about the Bears’ group of receivers, No. 4 quarterback Austin Reed and rookie running back Ian Wheeler.
Here are our takeaways and superlatives from Episode 2.
Main takeaways
Greenberg: Unlike you cord-cutters, I watch my TV the old-fashioned way: on a 12-inch Magnavox atop a VCR. OK, I have a fairly new TV attached to a wall. but I really do pay for cable so I could watch the episode relatively on time — we had dinner plans, so I DVR’d it — and annoy everyone on X with spoilers.
I thought this was more interesting than the first episode, but it’s still just sanitized training camp football. There were some memorable moments like Jonathan Owens bragging on wife Simone Biles, Caleb Williams showing his personality behind the scenes (asking Rome Odunze if he was going clubbing because he had fishnet wristbands), running backs coach Chad Morton busting up his players and, of course, the family spotlights of DJ Moore’s adorable daughter Arielle, Odunze’s mom and Reed’s wholesome parents watching him…
