CLASS IN SESSION: Ben Johnson, Chicago Bears Rookie Class take first steps | CHGO Bears After Dark
CHGO Chicago Bears Podcast
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to C.H.O. Bears after dark. As class is in session. Look how upset Ben Johnson is at Dylan Thineman that he does not play wide receiver. |
| 0:22.9 | No, I'm kidding. Of course. I am your host, Greg Braggs Jr. alongside me. As always here on |
| 0:30.0 | C.H.O. Bears after dark is our guy Shane, the money man, Marceau. Phil will be off tier today's's doing some coaching with the kiddos so he's |
| 0:40.9 | going to take a little break here we appreciate Phil as always maybe one of these days we'll get |
| 0:45.8 | we'll wrangle rank back out of this go he's also both of them Hall of Fame coaches that's what |
| 0:51.6 | they are yeah they're hanging out with squirrel white right now. |
| 0:54.1 | Yeah. So, but that's right. Class is in session. Rookie mini camp was over the weekend at |
| 1:00.4 | Hallis Hall. Not sure how many A pluses Ben Johnson gave out, but, you know, he's a pretty |
| 1:07.3 | tough teacher that Ben Johnson. And, you know, you know, you got a lot of trust |
| 1:12.7 | when you're talking about this coaching staff, Shane. |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, man. It's like I said, you got to, you got to throw everything, all of your belief |
| 1:22.4 | behind Ben, no matter what, because he's, listen, he's the one with the track record. |
| 1:28.4 | He's the one that, you know, shifted the Titanic away from the iceberg after how many |
| 1:33.8 | years that we've been dealing with. |
| 1:35.3 | So, you know, he deserves all the credit in the world. |
| 1:38.3 | And I love where he's got us headed. |
| 1:40.2 | All the trust as well. |
| 1:41.7 | And I think the thing that really is going to stand out about this |
| 1:45.5 | offseason, and it already has, really, is even though Ben Johnson really tried to sell hard |
| 1:51.8 | when the season ended, that we're starting from scratch. And this is back to ground zero, |
| 1:57.2 | just like last offseason. It's not exactly the same in regards to where this offense is |
| 2:03.3 | and the understanding from the quarterback to head coach and really just the team in general. |
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