Ben Johnson to Rework Offense and His Rising Expectations for Rookie Availability

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ruthie Polinsky, Clay Harbor, and Alex Shapiro break down everything they saw during Bears OTAs and mandatory minicamp. From Ben Johnson's demanding tone and creative vision to Caleb Williams’ learning curve and the ongoing battle for trust and reps for the new additions to the team, the crew unpacks where this team stands heading into training camp. They also highlight their early “camp crushes” and take stock of the running back room.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone?
0:06.0	Welcome back to the charter podcast brought to you by St. Xavier University.
0:09.0	Ruthie Polinsky, Clay Harbor, Alex Shapiro.
0:12.0	We are here to talk all things bears as, guess what, guys?
0:17.0	School's out for summer for a lot of these guys.
0:19.0	And when I say that, I mean the off season is over,
0:22.4	but the season has begun is what that means, right?
0:25.4	This is not a time for the majority of these guys
0:28.7	to take six weeks off.
0:29.9	This is, as Ben Johnson says, this is not getting ready
0:33.9	for training camp.
0:35.3	This is get ready for training camp time, right?
0:39.6	No, I totally just botched that.
0:41.9	Training camp is not time to get ready to get in condition.
0:45.6	You don't get in condition.
0:47.2	It's not getting shape camp, it's show up in shape camp.
0:49.9	Right.
0:50.5	There we go.
0:51.7	Do, do. Okay.
1:03.1	So anyways, let's spend today's episode just sort of recapping mandatory mini camp OTAs. It was the last time we got to hear from Ben Johnson and some of the guys on Tuesday before
1:07.8	we see them for our training camp.
1:09.7	So I want to get your guys just sort of overarching themes, thoughts,
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