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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Do the Bears feel different under Ben Johnson's leadership?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed the Bears' new vibe under the direction of first-year head coach Ben Johnson.

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0:00.0

This will be from 57.

0:04.0

Tyros Santos with the boot and it is good.

0:14.0

One of the most reliable kickers in the NFL.

0:17.0

Now it is sixth consecutive year with the Bears.

0:20.0

It wasn't as good of a year as we've come to know from Santos. NFL. Now it is sixth consecutive year with the Bears.

0:26.7

Wasn't as good of a year as we've come to know from Santos last year, but from distance,

0:27.8

he's as good as they get.

0:31.7

What has gotten into Cairo Santos?

0:37.8

I mean, he's always been good from under 50.

0:42.9

But do you realize how good he's been from over 50 lately?

0:46.4

I hadn't realized it had been this good.

0:50.9

Last three seasons, he's 19 for 22 from 50 plus.

0:52.1

As he had a 70.

1:45.0

Well, that's the thing about that one. That one looked like it would have been good from like... 73? Like 65. Oh, Cairo's, yeah. Cairo's would have been good from like 63, 65. That was 57 for Cairo and it was in, it was like solidly in, what, halfway up, the upright? That was impressive as hell. Has he been working out? That's a question I'd like to ask certain athletes, just to find out if they work out. If they work out? Yeah, I think it's helpful. Historically, it's always seemed pertinent. But, like, that whole sequence was pretty solid, though. What did you think of the way that all went down? Well, forget about what I think about it. Why don't we hear what Case Keenom thinks about it? Because he said they did some really good situational football to give Cairo a chance. Yeah, I think preseason the situational stuff is a little bit different just, you know, because there's some situations. Maybe you punt when you don't normally do or go forth. I mean, you could see that happening towards the end of the

1:49.1

game. But, yeah, with six seconds left to be able to get completion and get the ball out of bounds,

1:55.3

I thought Tyson did a really heads-up job. And Luther were getting out of bounds when he did.

1:59.1

We've got to work on our clock, home field clock guy, you know, yeah.

2:04.7

I mean, you'd think they'd stop it more on two than on zero.

2:07.6

They did it twice, I think.

2:10.1

But, yeah, and then Cairo making that kick was awesome.

2:13.9

I mean, that was, I mean, it was piercing into that wind.

2:17.3

So he did a great job. I mean, there's, I mean, it was piercing into that wind. So he did a great job.

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