Ben Johnson vs. Detroit Lions: Game Predictions, Breakdown + More With Dave Birkett

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Dave Birkett joins our Bears–Lions preview to break down Sunday’s divisional matchup in Detroit. He weighs in on Ben Johnson’s return, shares his predictions, and explains what’s changed for the Lions since Johnson took over as Chicago’s head coach. How will this showdown play out? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	What's up?
0:12.5	Welcome in Hogan Johns back with you with our week to preview episode.
0:19.0	What's going on, Jansie?
0:20.2	Did you watch the Green Bay Packers last
0:22.1	night? I did. Holy moly. Yeah. I think we might have a Packers problem. Just a little bit.
0:31.1	My gosh, it looked good. Sorry. Yeah. They, they look good on sunday too and two very impressive wins to start
0:40.3	the season over to the detroit lions and the washington commanders now i got i do have to say
0:45.7	very odd to have two home games in the first five days of the season so they only have
0:50.8	six home games left the rest of the year with 15 games to go.
0:57.0	Now, I imagine that helped them in these matchups.
1:00.8	Yeah.
1:01.5	But at the same time, them beating the playoff team that were the Detroit Lions,
1:07.4	them beating the playoff team that as the Washington commanders, still
1:11.9	impressive nonetheless.
1:13.5	That's how they're doing it.
1:15.3	Michael Parsons looked unstoppable at times, worth every penny, I would think right now for
1:21.6	the Green Bay Packers.
1:22.7	Yeah, it looks a lot like when the Bears traded for Cleo Mac in 2018.
1:26.6	Like just remember how good Khalil was at the start of that.
1:29.5	I mean, really that whole year.
1:30.8	But it was, it was a moment like you and I really haven't had on this beat too much where it's like,
1:36.5	oh, that's what one of the best players in the league looks like.
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