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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Bears officially announce Ben Johnson hire + Kevin O'Connell signs multi-year contract extension with Vikings (Hour 1)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Hour 1: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including Bears officially announcing Ben Johnson as team’s head coach and Kevin O’Connell agreeing to terms on a contract extension with the Vikings.

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0:00.0

We'll be in New Orleans broadcasting live 12 days from now.

0:10.9

I hope that stuff melts.

0:12.7

In the grand scheme of things, we almost were in the middle of it.

0:16.4

So it would have been just like home.

0:18.6

The snow, the cold.

0:21.3

A great treat for folks who aren't used to it, but good luck driving your car.

0:25.5

Good luck walking on a smooth surface that has ice on it and not busting your butt.

0:31.6

Yeah.

0:32.1

Like I did.

0:33.0

Well, I'm coughing just thinking about it.

0:35.1

It's just, it's always, it's always crazy, right?

0:37.5

With like southern cities like that, Louisiana.

0:39.5

I went to school at, you know, Austin, Austin, you know, Austin, Texas with the University of Texas and all that.

0:45.2

We saw it with Dallas with the Ohio State Texas game, you know, a few weeks ago, right?

0:50.7

It is like a storm like that.

0:53.2

Yeah, those cities are not accustomed to that so certainly like

0:56.8

the city shuts down and i don't want that to happen while we're there in new orleans that

1:01.2

won't be that fun there'll be less action so i mean cool that they're getting to experience that

1:06.6

and all that that's great it looks great uh but i i certainly don't want to go down to New Orleans and freeze my ass off to the same capacity that I'm freezing my ass off up here in the Northeast right now.

1:17.8

Some parts of New Orleans had nine inches of snow. That's crazy.

1:22.5

14 years ago in Dallas, I had never experienced anything like it. Ice storm, ice everywhere, half inch

1:28.8

thick, and no mechanisms in place to get rid of it. No salt, no trucks, no shovels.

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