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Cash The Ticket

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4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Will Ben Johnson be able to turn the Bears around? Download and subscribe to Cash the Ticket today.

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0:00.0

Cash the ticket is presented by Fandul Sportsbook, Make Every Moment More.

0:04.6

That brings me to the Bears.

0:06.7

I know here in Detroit, people get very upset if you ever say anything decent about the Bears.

0:12.1

There is no bigger upgrade for Caleb Williams or an organization at large than going from Bernie Lomax, aka Blank Face, aka Matt Eberfluse, into Ben Johnson.

0:25.6

Bears win total seven and a half divisionally plus 550. I don't have a problem if you want to use

0:31.6

the bears as a bomb pop at plus 550. I'm not mad if you did it. Here's what you're pinning your hopes to,

0:37.4

and this is where it gets dicey. I think not mad if you did it. Here's what you're pinning your hopes to, and this is where it gets

0:38.3

dicey. I think there's been, it's like a, almost like a media campaign against Caleb Williams.

0:46.1

It's very bizarre to me. Like, Jim, you know in sports sometimes we choose our heroes and we choose

0:52.2

our villains. And you, as someone who's close to it, we watch it,

0:56.4

you sometimes look and go,

0:57.7

I don't think this guy is as good as everyone is saying.

1:00.9

And I don't think this guy's as big of an asshole.

1:03.6

Like, it doesn't add up to me.

1:06.3

Like this Caleb thing,

1:08.0

did he have got off a rookie year?

1:10.4

No. Look at the numbers. And I understand,

1:13.4

well, he held the ball too long. Okay, first of all, Jim and I were at the forefront of this.

1:19.2

He learned a lot of bad habits at USC, and it was going to take a really good offensive mind

1:22.9

to unwind them. Did the bears provide that to him? Nope. No. Now they have. Yes, he's a weird kid.

1:29.9

Okay? Yes, he paints opponent messages on fingernails. Do I like everything he does? No.

1:34.9

The point I'm making is this is still a guy that many believed was a generational talent just last year.

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