Do the Bears finally have a 1-2 punch at running back?
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He's feeling it and giving us a spark. |
| 0:02.0 | We might lean on that a little bit longer. |
| 0:04.0 | But I think we've got a really good room. |
| 0:07.9 | It's Ben Johnson talking about how to divvy up snaps |
| 0:12.0 | and whether you do go with the hot hand or does it matter who you play in some of these situations. |
| 0:18.8 | Speeks, you said something that Olin brought up, kind of sparked your brain on this topic. |
| 0:23.9 | What was it? |
| 0:24.6 | It was the idea of running the same plays for Kyle Menongai or D'Andre Swift. |
| 0:30.8 | Oh, like Olin was saying it was Cedric Benson and Thomas Jones. |
| 0:33.6 | Right. |
| 0:34.1 | And, like, I believe the Lions have done and still do for David Montgomery and Jemir Gibbs. |
| 0:41.1 | There's this idea that like, well, one's fast and one is more sturdy. |
| 0:46.4 | So this guy runs inside zone and that guy runs outside zone. |
| 0:50.0 | David Montgomery is actually pretty quick too. |
| 0:52.1 | He doesn't have the, like you're not expecting him to hit on an 80-yard touchdown like |
| 0:57.3 | Jemir Gibbs does, but he's not like some plotting fullback that happens to be a tailback. |
| 1:03.3 | He can get to the edge if the edge is there. |
| 1:06.0 | Kyle Munungai on an outside zone play gave you 39 yards last week. |
| 1:12.0 | He can get to the edge and get back to the middle and make a cut. |
| 1:16.7 | So I thought it was fascinating that Olin said they would run the same stuff for Benson, |
| 1:21.5 | Cedric Benson, and Thomas Jones, but they ran it different ways. |
| 1:24.8 | Yeah, Thomas would see it differently than Cedric would. |
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