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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Ben Johnson non-commital on Left Tackle

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Laurence Homes & Anthony Herron react to Bears Head Coach Ben Johnson being con-committal on who will be his starting Left Tackle.

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0:00.0

Gregson Jones, your starter week one at Love Tackle?

0:03.8

I'm not ready to talk about starters yet.

0:07.0

You said all along with the Left Tackle spot that you want to see somebody stand out and earn that.

0:10.5

Do you feel like that was the case?

0:12.6

I think we're going to have a starter week one and we'll go from there.

0:15.7

So that's, you know, I said it a few weeks ago and we feel good about the guys we have in that room.

0:26.1

Someone's going to take the bull by the horns and he's going to completely take over,

0:29.2

but we're not afraid to make a change if the performance isn't where it needs to be.

0:33.9

So we'll make that decision going into next week.

0:37.2

I'm sure you guys will have a good

0:38.5

idea who our starters will be going into Minnesota. But I'm not, mentally, I'm not there yet.

0:43.4

This week is still about us. I'm not worried about Minnesota yet. It's all about us.

0:47.5

Spiegel and Holmes. Afternoons on the score.

0:51.2

That's Ben Johnson talking about the left tackle position.

0:54.6

It is still up for grabs.

0:56.6

There's going to be more from Ben Johnson coming up in this segment.

0:59.2

And we're going to hear from Ryan Poles and get his thoughts on Jalen Johnson.

1:03.2

If Jalen's fine or if he's not fine or whatever's going on.

1:07.5

When you hear Ben Johnson, and Big Ann is in for Speegs, by the way, today.

1:12.3

So Big Ant, when you hear what he's saying about the left tackle, I'd love to know what your

1:18.8

assessment has been. You've been to a practice. You've seen these guys warm up on the field at

1:23.5

Soldier Field with the work that you're doing on Fox 32. What are you seeing at left tackle?

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