Best of the Bears: Ben Johnson effectively addresses the Caleb Williams noise

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In the Best of the Bears this week, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes praised Bears head coach Ben Johnson for how he handled questions about quarterback Caleb Williams' initial desire to avoid being drafted by Chicago in 2024; Tribune reporter Dan Wiederer joined the Mully & Haugh Show to share what he saw and heard at Bears practice as OTAs are underway; Leila Rahimi, Marshall Harris and Mark Grote shared their feelings about the Bears shifting their focus to Arlington Heights as the location to build their new stadium; Mike Mulligan and David Haugh reacted to Johnson's comments about how he wants to change the narrative about the Bears' troubled quarterback history; and Mully and Haugh debated if the Bears should sign another veteran running back or edge before training camp begins.

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0:00.0	Thanks everybody.
0:03.3	You're listening to the best of the bears.
0:06.7	He's it for the touchdown and the Chicago Bears have taken the league.
0:10.9	A weekly mix of 670 the score's best NFL talk to get you ready for game day. Day.
0:37.6	Spiegel and Holmes, afternoons on the score The mission especially right now
0:40.5	Early in this spring
0:41.6	It's trying to set the culture right
0:42.8	I mean just to be honest
0:43.9	This organization over the last
0:46.3	I don't know 10 years or whatever
0:48.4	Like it's been a losing culture in the way
0:50.8	We haven't really won a lot
0:51.9	So you have to drastically come in and try to
0:54.8	rearrange everything because whatever we've been doing hasn't been working and I think that that's the
1:00.9	beauty of obviously the guys they brought in the past couple years with polls and trying to reshape the
1:05.3	roster it's all about trying to go in and win right now but it takes you know a culture of
1:10.7	redif it's being details the accountability and all that stuff he's trying to go in and win right now. But it takes, you know, a culture of, right if it's
1:11.9	being details, the accountability and all that stuff. We're trying to hold everybody to the highest
1:16.6	level. And we're trying to do it ourselves as well. So like you said, with DA and Ben, I think
1:20.4	that's the main thing we're trying to get accomplished, is really shifting the culture, changing
1:23.5	the culture, and not trying to do what we've done in the past and just try to look forward towards the future.
1:28.5	One of the grownups in the room last year, Kevin Byer, Bear Safety, talking about where
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