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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Ben's Vision: Evaluating the Bears' linebacker position

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2651 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes held the Ben’s Vision segment, where they evaluated the Bears’ linebacker position. Who will be back for the 2026 season? Who will be let go?

Transcript

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0:00.0

go in Odyssey Sports Station.

0:03.2

The score!

0:05.1

Get comfortable, being uncomfortable.

0:07.7

It's time for Ben's vision.

0:09.6

Our mission starting the spring is to win and to win now.

0:13.3

Projecting how the Bears' roster will take shape under Ben Johnson.

0:16.5

Ben's vision is going to be principled.

0:20.0

These are the type of players that I need. That's the vision. If it doesn't fit Ben's vision, are you willing to move on with certain guys? I really enjoy hearing Ben's vision. Courage roster, free agents, and the draft. Our entire organization is fired up about Ben Johnson and his vision for winning football. Van's vision, I cannot wait to get to work.

0:38.2

With Spiegel at Homes on 1043, the score.

0:43.1

Ben's Vision is brought to you by

0:45.6

Village of Bedfordpark.com.

0:48.0

Now's the time to envision your business in Bedford Park.

0:51.9

And we thank them for being a part of our segment. This is a

0:56.5

speed thing. Ben's vision, you created this. I guess I did. You know what? It's funny because it

1:02.9

came on the heels of Poles position the year before. Yes. And we were talking about what's Ryan

1:08.2

Poles going to do when he was in great position. But then we realized that once Ben got here, and you and I talked about it, and we really thought about it, the head coach with the vision to really build the roster in a way that he can best utilize.

1:24.3

Head coach is different in football than it is in every other sport.

1:29.1

It is. They deserve more input and get more input when run properly than any other sport yeah it does seem like the power

1:35.6

dynamic in baseball for example is with the front office right now it's one of the things that

1:40.1

joe madden continues to rail against or whenever you see him do any sort of interview.

1:45.9

Yeah.

1:46.1

And when you say in the NBA, it's with the front office and the star.

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